Frank Lloyd Wright: Unpacking the Archive
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| Rating | : | 4.96 (847 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1633450260 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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Five Stars Madeleine Kesselman Wonderful recap of the MOMA exhibit. S. Nichols said FLW: A man for our times. A wonderful read from an important man. This is a good read in difficult times.. Very informative book William M Morgan Very informative book about many of Frank Lloyd Wright's works and the more intricate details, inspirations, and motivations behind the designs.
A little-known project for a Rosenwald School for African-American children, together with other projects that engage Japanese and Native American culture, ask provocative questions about Wright’s positions on race and cultural identity. Structured as a series of inquiries into the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives at Taliesin West, Arizona (recently acquired by MoMA and Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University), the book is a collection of scholarly explorations rather than an attempt to construct a master narrative. Still other investigations engage the architect’s lifelong dedication to affordable and do-it-yourself housing, as well as the ecological systems, both social and environmental, that informed his approach to cities, landscapes and even ornament. Wright’s quest to build a mile-high skyscraper reveals him to be one of the earliest celebrity architects, using television, press relations and other forms of mass media to advance his own self-crafted image. The publication aims to open up Wright’s work to questions, interrogations and debates, and to highlight interpretations by contemporary scholars, both established Wright experts and others considering this iconic figure from new and illuminating perspectives.. Each chapter centers on a key object from the archive that an invited author has “unpacked” tracing its meanings and connections, and juxtaposing it
(Alexandra Alexa Artsy)an ambitious catalogue featuring wide-ranging essays (Jonathan Glancey The Art Newspaper)It is always the year of Frank Lloyd Wright, so monumentally does he loom over American architecture. (Olivia B. Waxman Time)Frank Lloyd Wright is synonymous with American architecture. (Lauren Walser National Trust for Historic Preservation)remarkable a fresh age in Wright scholarship… shows that Wright’s long career, as multidimensional and accomplished as that of almost any architect in history, was richer and more complex than even admiring critics knew. (Paul Goldberger Bloombe