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Frank Lloyd Wright: A Life

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As readers of Huxtable's Pulitzer Prize-winning criticism know, she is a discerning writer fluent in architectural thought and practice. She now offers a fresh perspective on Frank Lloyd Wright's much scrutinized yet still surprising life. Comfortable with ambiguity and complexity, Huxtable not only parses both key events and overlooked subtleties, she also wrestles with the prickly questions about character and creativity raised by the contrast between Wright's self-serving, tyrannical behavior and his enormously influential achievements. Fascinated by Wright's supreme confidence, fiscal recklessness, con-man charm, and phoenixlike resurrections, Huxtable tells the still shocking stories of his abandonment of his first wife and six children; the gruesome murders at Taliesin, his Wisconsin estate; and the conflicts with his vindictive second wife that landed him in jail and left him homeless. But Huxtable is no less compelling in her chronicling of Wright's ever-evolving vision of "organic architecture," which gave rise to his Prairie house; the Usonian house, the prototype for the ranch house; and many other innovations, thus renewing appreciation for a wildly unconventional but essential architect.

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Making architecture : the Getty Center

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This book documenting the planning, design, and construction of the Getty Center is extensively illustrated by photographs and site drawings, as well as essays underscoring the challenges faced by the architect, contracter, and client working collaboratively throughout this project.

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The unreal America : architecture and illusion

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This book argues that art and architecture today reflect a view of reality detached from the problems and processes of contemporary experience. Real places, real art and history, are the losers in the unreal America.

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On architecture: collected reflections on a century of change

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For more than half a century, Ada Louise Huxtable's writing have reinforced to readers how important architecture is and why it continues to be both controversial and fascinating. This publication collects Huxtable's writing from the New York Times, New York Review of Books, Wall Street Journal, and her various books. In these selections, Huxtable examines the twentieth century's most important architectural masters and projects, cataloging the seismic shifts in style, function, and fashion that have led to the dramatic new architecture of the twenty-first century.