Main entry:

Spirn, Anne Whiston, 1947- author.

Title & Author:

Frank Lloyd Wright : designs for an American landscape, 1922-1932 / David G. De Long, general editor ; Anne Whiston Spirn, C. Ford Peatross, Robert L. Sweeney.

Publication:

New York, NY : Harry N. Abrams in association with the Canadian Centre for Architecture, the Library of Congress, and the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, 1996.

Description:

207 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 31 cm

Series:

Canadian Centre for Architecture
Library of Congress
Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation

Notes:
Catalogue of an exhibition co-sponsored by the Canadian Centre for Architecture (shown June 18-Sept. 22, 1996), the Library of Congress (Fall 1996), and the Frank Lloyd Foundation.
"This book accompanies the exhibition Frank Lloyd Wright designs for an American landscape, 1922-1932, organized by the Library of Congress, The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, and the Centre Canadien d'Architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture with David G. De Long, guest curator. The exhibition will be shown at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, from June 18 to September 22, 1996, and at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., during the Fall of 1996"--T.p. verso.
Preface by James Billington, Richard Carney and Phyllis Lambert.
Includes statements by Frank Lloyd Wright.
"Frank Lloyd Wright Chronology 1922-1932": p. [185]-201.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Frank Lloyd Wright : designs for an American landscape, 1922-1932 / David G. De Long -- Frank Lloyd Wright, architect of landscape / Anne Whiston Spirn -- Symbol and catalyst : the automobile in architectural representation before 1930 / C. Ford Peatross -- Frank Lloyd Wright chronology, 1922-1932 / Robert L. Sweeney.
Includes reproductions of CCA collection material.

Summary:

During the 1920s, as the five remarkable projects in this book show, Frank Lloyd Wright developed architectural prototypes of far-reaching consequence. None of these schemes - Doheny Ranch, the Lake Tahoe summer colony, and the A.M. Johnson desert compound, all in California, the Gordon Strong automobile objective in Maryland, and San Marcos in the Desert, a compound of hotel and houses in Arizona - were built. But in them, Wright explored advanced building technologies and untried geometric patterns, and conceived rural and suburban building complexes that restructured their sites in a manner calculated to heighten the grandeur of each location. Earlier designs had approached their settings more tentatively, with linkages achieved through architectural extensions that ranged over the terrain but left the sites themselves less changed. Now a new, more persuasive unity between building and site resulted, one in which roads and other movement systems were so skillfully integrated that results of unequaled scale and majesty were achieved. Wright continued to develop these ideas in many subsequent works, notably Taliesin and Taliesin West, his homes in Wisconsin and Arizona. In preparing their texts for this book, authors David G. De Long and Anne Whiston Spirn drew on a wealth of fresh archival sources as well as their investigation of the sites and of models constructed especially for this study. Their essays are illustrated with nearly 170 original drawings for the five schemes and related buildings, as well as Taliesin and Taliesin West, many of which are published here for the first time. In addition, a special portfolio of drawings, assembled by C. Ford Peatross, places Wright's designs of the 1920s in the context of the architectural representation of the automobile and the roadway through 1930, both in the U.S. and abroad, to illustrate the ways in which his architecture stood apart and was influential. Completing this handsome volume is Robert L. Sweeney's valuable detailed chronology of Wright's life and work between 1922 and 1932.

ISBN:

9780810926646 (pbk.)
0810926644 (pbk.)
9780810939813 (hc)
0810939819 (hc)

Subject:

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 Exhibitions.
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 Expositions.
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 Criticism and interpretation.
Organic architecture United States Exhibitions.
Architecture organique États-Unis Expositions.
Architecture États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Dessin de paysages américain Expositions.
Organic architecture
Bouwprojecten.
Landschapsarchitectuur.
Architectuurtekeningen.
Organic architecture United States.
Architects United States 20th century.
Organic architecture Exhibitions.
United States
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 -- Exhibitions
Organic architecture -- United States -- Exhibitions
Centre canadien d'architecture Collection

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.
Quotations (texts)
exhibition catalogs.
Books.
Illustrated works.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Peatross, C. Ford, editor.
Sweeney, Robert L. (Robert Lawrence), 1945- editor.
De Long, David Gilson, 1939- editor.
Spirn, Anne Whiston, 1947-
Peatross, C. Ford
Sweeney, Robert L. (Robert Lawrence), 1945-
De Long, David Gilson, 1939-
Billington, James H.
Carney, Richard.
Lambert, Phyllis
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959
Centre canadien d'architecture.
Library of Congress, contributor.
Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.
Library of Congress

Holdings:

Location: Library study room cca productions 154569
Call No.: NA44.W949.23 F722 1996
Copy: c. 3
Notes: hardcover
Status: Available

Location: Library cage cca productions 154567
Call No.: 1996-3
Copy: c. 1
Notes: hardcover
Status: Available

Location: Library cage cca productions 154568
Call No.: 1996-3
Copy: c. 2
Notes: paperback
Status: Available

Location: Library main 154571
Call No.: NA44.W949.23 F722 1996
Copy: c. 4
Notes: paperback
Status: Available