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The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright
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Item specifics
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- Release Year
- 1997
- ISBN
- 9780691027456
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
0691027455
ISBN-13
9780691027456
eBay Product ID (ePID)
687172
Product Key Features
Book Title
Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright
Number of Pages
544 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1998
Topic
Individual Architects & Firms / General, Artists, Architects, Photographers, Regional
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Architecture, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
82.2 Oz
Item Length
10.9 in
Item Width
9.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
A monumental project. . . This book, rather than any extant Wright biography, is the source for those who want to know about the immensity and worth of the accomplishments of Frank Lloyd Wright., Winner of the 1997 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Architecture and Urban Planning, Association of American Publishers, "A major publication, a benchmark study not only of Wright's career but of architectural history as well. . . . A magnum opus by one of the most highly regarded architectural historians of our day."-- Choice, "A major publication, a benchmark study not only of Wright's career but of architectural history as well. . . . A magnum opus by one of the most highly regarded architectural historians of our day." -- Choice, "He [Wright] created beauty, a serene beauty of space--new, undemocratic and unapologetic--a beauty springing from the deepest resonance of man and nature. The strength of Levine's book is that he explains exactly how and why he did it, with a wealth of illustration."-- Joe Berridge, Toronto Globe & Mail, "A monumental project. . . This book, rather than any extant Wright biography, is the source for those who want to know about the immensity and worth of the accomplishments of Frank Lloyd Wright." -- Library Journal, Scrupulously researched, elegantly written (with a refreshing lack of jargon), beautifully illustrated and designed . . . the book is a feast for eye and mind, challenging assumptions and deepening understanding on almost every page. . . . Wright's ability to translate the poetic essence of a place into form was unrivaled, and no one has explored it with more insight than Levine. -- The Architects' Journal, A monumental project. . . This book, rather than any extant Wright biography, is the source for those who want to know about the immensity and worth of the accomplishments of Frank Lloyd Wright. -- Library Journal, "Scrupulously researched, elegantly written (with a refreshing lack of jargon), beautifully illustrated and designed . . . the book is a feast for eye and mind, challenging assumptions and deepening understanding on almost every page. . . . Wright's ability to translate the poetic essence of a place into form was unrivaled, and no one has explored it with more insight than Levine."-- The Architects' Journal, "Wright's personal history was extraordinary by any standards, and it is the great strength of Neil Levine's book that he manages to correlate the developments in Wright's architecture with the events in his life, without being sentimental or over-reverent."-- Andrew Ballantyne, The Times Literary Supplement, Scrupulously researched, elegantly written (with a refreshing lack of jargon), beautifully illustrated and designed . . . the book is a feast for eye and mind, challenging assumptions and deepening understanding on almost every page. . . . Wright's ability to translate the poetic essence of a place into form was unrivaled, and no one has explored it with more insight than Levine., Winner of the 1997 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Architecture and Urban Planning, Association of American Publishers One of Choice 's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1996, He [Wright] created beauty, a serene beauty of space--new, undemocratic and unapologetic--a beauty springing from the deepest resonance of man and nature. The strength of Levine's book is that he explains exactly how and why he did it, with a wealth of illustration., "A monumental project. . . This book, rather than any extant Wright biography, is the source for those who want to know about the immensity and worth of the accomplishments of Frank Lloyd Wright."-- Library Journal, "Wright's personal history was extraordinary by any standards, and it is the great strength of Neil Levine's book that he manages to correlate the developments in Wright's architecture with the events in his life, without being sentimental or over-reverent." --Andrew Ballantyne, The Times Literary Supplement, "Scrupulously researched, elegantly written (with a refreshing lack of jargon), beautifully illustrated and designed . . . the book is a feast for eye and mind, challenging assumptions and deepening understanding on almost every page. . . . Wright's ability to translate the poetic essence of a place into form was unrivaled, and no one has explored it with more insight than Levine." -- The Architects' Journal, Wright's personal history was extraordinary by any standards, and it is the great strength of Neil Levine's book that he manages to correlate the developments in Wright's architecture with the events in his life, without being sentimental or over-reverent. -- Andrew Ballantyne, The Times Literary Supplement, Wright's personal history was extraordinary by any standards, and it is the great strength of Neil Levine's book that he manages to correlate the developments in Wright's architecture with the events in his life, without being sentimental or over-reverent., A major publication, a benchmark study not only of Wright's career but of architectural history as well. . . . A magnum opus by one of the most highly regarded architectural historians of our day. -- Choice, "He [Wright] created beauty, a serene beauty of space--new, undemocratic and unapologetic--a beauty springing from the deepest resonance of man and nature. The strength of Levine's book is that he explains exactly how and why he did it, with a wealth of illustration." --Joe Berridge, Toronto Globe & Mail, He [Wright] created beauty, a serene beauty of space--new, undemocratic and unapologetic--a beauty springing from the deepest resonance of man and nature. The strength of Levine's book is that he explains exactly how and why he did it, with a wealth of illustration. -- Joe Berridge, Toronto Globe & Mail, A major publication, a benchmark study not only of Wright's career but of architectural history as well. . . . A magnum opus by one of the most highly regarded architectural historians of our day.
Dewey Decimal
720.9/2
Table Of Content
Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction Ch. I Beginnings of the Prairie House 1 Ch. II Abstraction and Analysis in the Architecture of the Oak Park Years 23 Ch. III Voluntary Exile in Fiesole 59 Ch. IV The Story of Taliesin 75 Ch. V Building against Nature on the Pacific Rim 113 Ch. VI From Los Angeles to Lake Tahoe and Death Valley 149 Ch. VII Writing An Autobiography, Reading the Arizona Desert 191 Ch. VIII The Temporal Dimension of Fallingwater 217 Ch. IX The Traces of Prehistory at Taliesin West 255 Ch. X The Guggenheim Museum's Logic of Inversion 299 Ch. XI Signs of Identity in an Increasingly One-Dimensional World 365 Conclusion: Wright and His/story 419 Notes 435 Bibliographical Note 505 List of Illustrations 507 Index 515
Synopsis
Neil Levine's study of the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, beginning with his work in Oak Park in the late 1880s and culminating in the construction of the Guggenheim museum in New York and the Marin County Civic Center in the 1950s, if the first comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the architect's entire career since the opening of the Wright Archives over a decade ago. The most celebrated and prolific of modern architects, Wright built more than four hundred buildings and designed at least twice as many more. The characteristic features of his work--the open plan, dynamic space, fragmented volumes, natural materials, and integral structure--established the basic way that we think about modern architecture. For a general audience, this engaging book provides an introduction to Wright's remarkable accomplishments, as seen against the background of his eventful and often tragic life. For the architect or the architectural historian, it will be an important source of new insights into the development of Wright's whole body of work. It integrates biographical and historical material in a chronologically ordered framework that makes sense of his enormously varied career, and it provides over four hundred illustrations running parallel to the text. Levine conveys the meanings of the continuities and changes that he sees I Wright's architecture and thought by focusing successive chapters on his most significant buildings, such as the Winslow House, Taliesin, Hollyhock House, Fallingwater, Tailsen west, and the Guggenheim Museum. A new understanding of the representational imagery and narrative structure of Wright's work, along with a much-needed reconsideration of its historical and contextual underpinnings, gives this study a unique place in the writings on Wright. In contrast to the emphasis a previous generation of critics and historians placed on Wright's earlier buildings, this book offers a broader perspective that sees Wright's later work as the culmination of his earlier efforts and the basis for a new understanding of the centrality of his career to the evolution of modern architecture as a whole.
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- a***r (1652)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseA nice and easy transaction. Accurately described, good communication, safely & securely packaged and timely delivery. You can never have too many books and I look forward to reading. Great Quality and Value, Nice Condition, Pretty Appearance!! Thanks!!
- j***j- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseA nice and easy transaction. Accurately described, good communication, safely & securely packaged and timely delivery. You can never have to many books and I look forward to reading. Thanks
- i***n (879)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseI was back and forth on neutral or positive feedback. Seller does not respond to messages. Books dust jacket was in far worse condition than shown in the pictures could have been because how it was packaged. While it was shipped promptly, the package was a simple bubble mailer. For collectible books such as this, I’d expect it in a box. I ship books with media mail too and it doesn’t cost any more to use a box instead of plastic mailers. Book did arrive though and the pricing was reasonable.