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Titre:
Testament

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Wright publie ‘A Testament' à l’âge de 90 ans, alors qu’il a déjà publié une autobiographie. Autant dire que ce texte se concentre sur l’activité architecturale plutôt que sur les aspects personnels et dresse un bilan de son œuvre. Auteur de nombreux textes théoriques, Wright s’efforce ici de diffuser sa pensée, avec notamment une présentation synthétique des neufs principes fondateurs de l’architecture organique et de faire connaître ses réalisations. Comprenant des illustrations détaillées sur 66 bâtiments et projets, ce livre peut en outre être reçu comme une véritable monographie sur un architecte qui a exercé une influence considérable sur tous les courants du siècle. Traduit de l’anglais et présenté par Claude Massu.

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La ville évanescente

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Dans The Disappearing City, publié en 1932, Wright expose pour la première fois les grandes lignes de son fameux projet de ville de l’avenir. Dans les premiers chapitres, il présente une critique des métropoles de son époque (essentiellement New York et Chicago) à qui il reproche d’être des espaces trop denses, Pour la première fois, l’auteur y expose ses propositions pour une Amérique agraire et largement décentralisée.

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Modern architecture : being the Kahn Lectures for 1930

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Modern Architecture is a landmark text - the first book in which this American architect put forth the principles of a fundamentally new, organic architecture that would reject the trappings of historical styles while avoiding the geometric abstraction of the machine aesthetic advocated by contemporary European modernists. One of the most important documents in the development of modern architecture and the career of Frank Lloyd Wright, "Modern Architecture" is a provocative and profound polemic against America's architectural eclecticism, commercial skyscrapers, and misguided urban planning. The book is also a work of savvy self-promotion, in which Wright not only advanced his own concept of an organic architecture but also framed it as having anticipated by decades - and bettered -what he saw as the reductive modernism of his European counterparts. Based on the 1931 original, for which Wright supplied the cover illustration, this edition includes a new introduction that puts "Modern Architecture" in its broader architectural, historical, and intellectual context for the first time. The subjects of these lively lectures -from "Machinery, Materials and Men" to "The Tyranny of the Skyscraper" and "The City" - move from a general statement of the conditions of modern culture to particular applications in the fields of architecture and urbanism at ever broadening scales. Wright's vision in "Modern Architecture" is ultimately to equate the truly modern with romanticism, imagination, beauty, and nature - all of which he connects with an underlying sense of American democratic freedom and individualism.

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An organic architecture: the architecture of democracy

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In May 1939, the celebrated American architect Frank Lloyd Wright visited London and gave four lectures at the Royal Institute of British Architects. The meetings were hailed at the time as the most remarkable events of recent architectural affairs in England, and the lectures were published as An Organic Architecture in September 1939 by Lund Humphries. The texts remain an important expression of the architect’s core philosophy and are being reissued now in a new edition to commemorate the 150th anniversary in 2017 of Frank Lloyd Wright’s birth. In the lectures, Frank Lloyd Wright discusses several of his recent projects, including his Usonian houses, his homes and studios at Taliesin, Wisconsin and Arizona, Fallingwater and the Johnson administration building. His charismatic, flamboyant character and hugely creative intelligence leap to life from the pages as he looks to the ‘Future’, both in terms of the then-imminent Second World War and his vision for cities.

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The essential Frank Lloyd Wright: Critical writings on architecture

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The Essential Frank Lloyd Wright is a compendium of Wright's most critically important writings on every conceivable aspect of his craft. Beginning early in Wright's career with The Art and Craft of the Machine in 1901, the book follows major themes through The Disappearing City , The Natural House , and many other writings, and ends with A Testament in 1957 , published two years before his death. This volume is illustrated with original drawings and photographs.

Titre:
Trente ans de correspondance

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rank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), le célèbre architecte et théoricien de l'architecture organique, et l'historien et critique Lewis Mumford (1895-1990) ont joué un rôle crucial dans l’histoire de l’architecture et de l’urbanisme, comme en témoignent les quelque cent cinquante lettres qu’ils ont échangées de 1926 à 1959. Cette correspondance passionnante, clairvoyante et spirituelle, mais non dépourvue de tensions, illustre à merveille le débat intellectuel sur l’architecture américaine et internationale du xxe siècle.