Main entry:

Levine, Neil, 1941-

Title & Author:

The architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright / Neil Levine.

Publication:

Description:

xix, 524 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 505-506) and index.
Beginnings of the Prairie House -- Abstraction and analysis in the architecture of the Oak Park years -- Voluntary exile in Fiesole -- The story of Taliesin -- Building against nature on the Pacific Rim -- From Los Angeles to Lake Tahoe and Death Valley -- Writing An Autobiography, reading the Arizona Desert -- The temporal dimension of Fallingwater -- The traces of prehistory at Taliesin West -- The Guggenheim Museum's logic of inversion -- Signs of identity in an increasingly one-dimensional world -- Wright and his/story.
Current Copyright Fee: GBP51.60 0.
Association of American Publishers PROSE Award, 1996.

Summary:

Although a founding figure of modern architecture as well as its most celebrated and prolific practitioner, Frank Lloyd Wright has always remained elusively outside the mainstream. In this book, the architectural historian Neil Levine redefines our understanding of Wright in the first comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the architect's entire career since the opening of the Wright Archives. Making use of the architect's drawings, notes, writings, and personal and professional correspondence, the author weaves together historical and biographical material in a carefully documented, chronologically ordered framework that gives new meaning and relevance to Wright's enormously varied production. The main theme of Wright's work is the intimate relation between architecture and nature, as revealed through the processes of abstraction and representation. The power of its hold on us lies in the various ways Wright developed this idea for the suburb, the city, and the country, for environments as different as the American Midwest or Southwest and Baghdad, and for programs ranging from the single-family house and the suburban church to the museum and the civic center. Levine conveys the significance of the continuities and changes that he sees in Wright's architecture and thought by adopting a case-study method that focuses successive chapters on the architect's most important designs. The origins of the revolutionary Prairie House are traced to the Winslow House, its full manifestation being seen in the later Robie House. Taliesin, the Imperial Hotel, Hollyhock House, the textile-block houses and projects, Fallingwater, and Taliesin West are each given special attention. Discussions of the Guggenheim Museum, the proposed Baghdad Opera House, and the Marin County Civic Center show how Wright's later work, contrary to received opinion, opened up important new areas of investigation into the language of architectural expression. Levine's analysis of the representational imagery and narrative structure of Wright's buildings situates the architect's work in the general context of modern thought and gives this book a unique place in the writings on Wright.

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ISBN:

0691033714 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
9780691033716 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
0691027455
9780691027456

Subject:

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 Criticism and interpretation.
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 Critique et interprétation.
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959
Wright, Frank Lloyd, (1867-1959) Critique et interprétation.
Gebouwen.
Architects United States 20th century.
Architectes américains Biographies.
Architecture
United States

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 81246
Call No.: ID NA44.W949 L4; ID:95-B2635
Status: Available