Main entry:

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.

Title & Author:

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect / edited by Terence Riley with Peter Reed ; essays by Anthony Alofsin [and others].

Publication:

Description:

344 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm

Notes:
"Published on the occasion of the exhibition ... organized by Terence Riley, Chief Curator, with Peter Reed, Assistant Curator, Department of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in cooperation with The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Scottsdale, Arizona, February 20-May 10, 1994"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
[Table of Contents] -- Foreword / Richard E. Oldenburg -- Inconstant Unity: The Passion Of Frank Lloyd Wright / William Cronon -- Frank Lloyd Wright And Modernism / Anthony Alofsin -- Modernization And Mediation: Frank Lloyd Wright And The Impact Of Technology / Kenneth Frampton -- Frank Lloyd Wright And The Domestic Landscape / Gwendolyn Wright -- The Landscapes Of Frank Lloyd Wright: A Pattern Of Work / Terence Riley -- Plates -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- Photograph Credits.

Summary:

"Undeniably the greatest architectural genius of his time, Frank Lloyd Wright produced a vast body of work that defined and redefined American architecture. This book, published to accompany a retrospective exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, presents a comprehensive summary of his vision - from the turn of the century until his death in 1959 - and a new assessment of his remarkable achievement. A wealth of illustrations, including many in full color, present newly restored original drawings of his designs as well as photographs of built works. Wright's residential architecture provided images and models for generations of suburban building across the United States. Among his best known works are single-family houses: the Prairie houses; the California Textile Block houses; Usonian houses for middle-class America; and spectacular commissions for wealthier clients, such as Fallingwater, the famous house constructed on natural rock and cantilievered dramatically over a waterfall. Wright also explored community planning and low-cost housing, and he executed a wide range of institutional and commercial projects. Among the latter are the Larkin Company Administration Building in Buffalo; Unity Temple in Oak Park, Illinois; the S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. Administration Building and Research Laboratory Tower in Racine, Wisconsin; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York; and the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo - all landmarks in the history of architecture. Wright's most spectacular commissions are presented in these pages along with a representative selection of works from all periods of his unusually long and productive career. Projects are shown through photographs of buildings and models, through plans and sketches, and through reproductions of the architect's masterful drawings, many previously unpublished. Research for the book has drawn upon many sources, including unrestricted, independent access to The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and Archives. A pragmatist and brilliant technical innovator, Wright was also an aggressively independent thinker and articulate advocate for his views. The essays in this book, by distinguished architectural critics and historians, not only chart the development of his work, but also define the essence of his thought, which had its core in Emersonian spiritualism. Exploring the resonance of Wright's career in twentieth-century American society, the authors discuss his views on individuality and community, craftsmanship and technology, and nature and the built environment; his relationship to European modernism; and his autocratic advocacy of a democratic architecture." -- Dust Jacket.

Resources:
e-book
Exhibition history

ISBN:

087070642X (clothbound)
9780870706424 (clothbound)
0810961229
9780810961227
0870706438
9780870706431

Subject:

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 Exhibitions.
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 Expositions.
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 Critique et interprétation.
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 Criticism and interpretation.
Architecture United States History 20th century Exhibitions.
Architectural drawing United States Exhibitions.
Architecture United States 20th century Designs and plans Exhibitions.
Architecture United States History 20th century Designs and plans Exhibitions.
Projets d'architecture États-Unis Expositions.
Architecture États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle Dessins et plans Expositions.
Architecture États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Architectural drawing
Architecture
Gebouwen.
Architects United States History 19th century Exhibitions.
Modern architecture 1900-1999 (20th century) Exhibitions.
United States
Architects
Wright, Frank Lloyd.

Form/genre:

Book jackets. NNC
Exhibition catalogues.
Quotations (texts)
Exhibition publications.
Catalogues raisonnés.
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
History
Books.
Dust jackets (Binding) NNC.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Riley, Terence.
Reed, Peter, 1955-
Alofsin, Anthony.
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 154011
Call No.: NA44.W949.2 F72 1994
Copy: copy 1
Status: Available

Location: Library main 154010
Call No.: NA44.W949.2 F72 1994
Copy: copy 2
Status: Available