Main entry:

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.

Title & Author:

Frank Lloyd Wright : an autobiography.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

New York : Duell, Sloan and Pearce, [1943]
©1943

Description:

561 pages, 9 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Book one: Family -- Prelude -- The boy -- The mother -- Bach -- Gifts -- Truth against the world -- Adding tired to tired -- Uncle James -- To her! -- Sunday -- Robie -- In memoriam -- A man -- The horse -- The sow -- The cow -- The hen -- The hoe -- Main strength and awkwardness -- Peace! Beauty! Satisfaction! Rest! -- The father -- The freshman party -- Tragedy -- Book two: Fellowship -- Interlude -- The apprentice -- Chicago -- Silsbee -- A pretty girl in pink -- Oak Park -- Culture -- Cecil -- Adler and Sullivan -- Let the dead bury their dead -- Combat -- The master -- Catherine -- Truth is life -- The master and I -- The auditorium building -- Six children -- Fatherhood -- The hose -- Education -- Nineteen years -- Groceries, rent -- Book three: Work -- The field -- Romeo and Juliet -- Building the new house -- Simplicity -- Plasticity -- The nature of materials -- The first protestant -- Designing Unity Temple -- A code -- Kuno Francke -- The closed road -- In exile -- Aftermath -- Taliesin -- The tale of the Midway Gardens -- Again -- Taliesin II -- Japanese prints -- A song to heaven -- Came Yedo -- Building against doomsday -- Hollyhock house in Hollywood -- The angels -- What form -- The alter ego -- The novice -- La miniatura -- The business mystic -- The glass skyscraper -- Isaiah -- Reunion -- The master's work -- Taliesin III -- Retrospect -- Book four: Freedom -- Hymn -- Autumn -- The book -- To work again -- Not work but echoes. More honors -- Arizona -- Ubiquity -- Retrospect -- San Marcos in the desert -- Significant insignificance -- An angry prophecy and a preachment -- Rent -- Time -- Traffic -- In our nation why build poverty? -- The new freedom -- The road is always better than the inn -- Land -- The gas station -- The motor car more and more -- Distribution -- Appeasement -- "Taste," the travesty -- The old order -- The symbol of authority -- The enemy -- Youth -- In the nature of materials -- A new reality: glass -- Another reality: continuity -- Materials for their own sake -- The new integrity -- Integral ornament at last! -- Great power -- Usonian architecture -- He who looks and sees -- Journeyman preacher -- Another modern instance -- Three progress fairs in one -- Milwaukee: still another instance -- Another little story -- Honorable interval -- More instances -- Catherine -- This autobiography -- Belated memories -- Taliesin III -- Again home -- Ave Maria -- Postlude -- Book five: Form -- Work-song -- The character of form -- Post-mortem -- Perspective -- A promise -- Anno Domini 1929 -- A station for the flight of the soul -- An extension of the work in architecture -- To the enemy -- To the students of the Beaux-Arts Institute -- What is the matter with human nature? -- Materials versus cash: lumber -- A legal episode -- Catastrophe -- Lime -- Shopping for the fellowship -- Stars and bars -- Etta -- The lighter side -- Especially designed -- Beethoven -- An "I remember" -- The upkeep of the carcass -- Mutual service -- Rehearsals -- Capital instances of the casual -- The officious Samaritan -- Relief -- A coarse incident -- Defense -- Fellowship marriages -- The allegory that failed to convince -- The moral -- The four seasons in four verses -- Our goodtime playhouse -- Snatching victory from the jaws of defeat -- Rest for the wicked -- In conquest of the desert -- Fellowship liabilities or democratic back drag -- Fellowship assets -- The first-person singular -- Aldebaran -- The story of Hibbard the Johnson -- Heresy -- The church of the future -- Breakfast at Taliesin -- The Usonian house I -- The Usonian house II -- Gravity heat -- The unkind fireplace -- The stampede -- To the American eagle -- On taking causes for effects -- Dr. Ferdinand the friend -- The merry wives of Taliesin -- Lulu Bett -- The American citizen -- To Carl Sandburg, poet -- The invited guest -- Sniff Taliesin -- Aggressive foreign policy -- Japan - Tokyo -- England - London -- Russia - Moscow -- To Russia -- Address to the congress of architects - Soviet Russia -- Architecture and life in the USSR -- An open letter to Frank Lloyd Wright -- Reply to the faculty communists of the University of Wisconsin -- To you, American communists -- The safety of the soil.

Summary:

"Frank Lloyd Wright exerted perhaps the greatest influence on twentieth century design. In a volume that continues to resonate more than seventy years after its initial publication, Frank Lloyd Wright: An Autobiography contains the master architect's own account of his work, his philosophy, and his personal life, written with his signature wit and charm. Wright (1867-1959) went into seclusion in a Minnesota cabin to reflect and to record his life experiences. In 1932, the first edition of the Autobiography was published. It became a form of advertising, leading many readers to seek out the master architect--thirty apprentices came to live and learn at Taliesin, Wright's Wisconsin home/school/studio, under the master's tutelage. (By 1938, Taliesin West, in Arizona, was the winter location for Wright's school.) The volume is divided into five sections devoted to family, fellowship, work, freedom, and form. Wright recalls his childhood, his apprenticeship with Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan, the turmoil of his personal life, and the background to his greatest achievements, including Hollyhock House, the Prairie and the Usonian Houses, and the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo." -- from publisher.

Subject:

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.
Architects United States 20th century Biography.

Form/genre:

Autobiography
Autobiographies.
autobiographies (literary works)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 150172
Call No.: NA44.W949.A2 1943
Status: Available

Location: Library archives collection 282093
Call No.: ARCH160317
Copy: c. 2
Status: Available