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The Essential Frank Lloyd Wright: Critical Writings on Architecture
Frank Lloyd Wright
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Description for The Essential Frank Lloyd Wright: Critical Writings on Architecture
Paperback. Frank Lloyd Wright pioneered a bold kind of architecture, one in which the spirit of modern man truly 'lived in his buildings'. This title presents a compendium of Wright's some of the most critically important - and personally revealing - writings on various conceivable aspects of his craft. Editor(s): Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Num Pages: 464 pages, 103 halftones. BIC Classification: AMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 203 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1114.
He was the most iconoclastic of architects, and at the height of his career his output of writings about architecture was as prolific and visionary as his architecture itself. Frank Lloyd Wright pioneered a bold new kind of architecture, one in which the spirit of modern man truly "lived in his buildings." The Essential Frank Lloyd Wright is a one-volume compendium of Wright's most critically important--and personally revealing--writings on every conceivable aspect of his craft. Wright was perhaps the most influential and inspired architect of the twentieth century, and this is the only book that gathers all of his most ... Read more
He was the most iconoclastic of architects, and at the height of his career his output of writings about architecture was as prolific and visionary as his architecture itself. Frank Lloyd Wright pioneered a bold new kind of architecture, one in which the spirit of modern man truly "lived in his buildings." The Essential Frank Lloyd Wright is a one-volume compendium of Wright's most critically important--and personally revealing--writings on every conceivable aspect of his craft. Wright was perhaps the most influential and inspired architect of the twentieth century, and this is the only book that gathers all of his most ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Weight
1124g
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691146324
SKU
V9780691146324
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About Frank Lloyd Wright
Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer is director of the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives at the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. He is the author or editor of many books on Wright, including "Frank Lloyd Wright and Lewis Mumford: Thirty Years of Correspondence"
Reviews for The Essential Frank Lloyd Wright: Critical Writings on Architecture
"Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer is a living link to Wright himself and has performed an important service by publishing books of letters, photographs, and drawings which bring us closer to the architect's world, creative process, personal life and literary sources. The Essential Frank Lloyd Wright ... is a well-designed anthology."
William J. R. Curtis, Times Literary Supplement "[T]his valuable record of Wright's ... Read more
William J. R. Curtis, Times Literary Supplement "[T]his valuable record of Wright's ... Read more