Frank Lloyd Wright Versus America
Frank Lloyd Wright Versus America

Author: Donald Leslie Johnson

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 9780262600224

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For his critics and biographers, the 1930s have always been the most challenging period of Frank Lloyd Wright's career. This account uses the architect's long-inaccessable archives at Taliesin West to provide a balanced evaluation of Wright in the 1930s. It separates Wright's design activities from his self-promotion and places his philosophy of individualism within the context of the times.

Frank Lloyd Wright--the Lost Years, 1910-1922
Frank Lloyd Wright--the Lost Years, 1910-1922

Author: Anthony Alofsin

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 9780226013664

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New definition to the little-known work Wright produced during this period, which he describes as Wright's primitivist phase. He traces this influence in his art through Wright's explorations of primitivist sources, innovations in sculpture, and an intensification of the architect's use of ornament. Less tangible, but as important, was Wright's view of himself, his art, and society, and Alofsin uncovers the European impact on the architect's image of himself as a.

Architects' Drawings
Architects' Drawings

Author: Kendra Schank Smith

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0750657197

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"Here for the first time, a wide range of world famous architects' sketches from the Renaissance to the present day can be seen in a single volume. The sketches have been selected to represent the concepts or philosophies of the key movements in architecture in order to develop an overall picture of the role of the sketch in the development of architecture. The book illustrates the work of designers as diverse as Andrea Palladio, Erich Mendelsohn, Sir Edwin Lutyens, Gianlorenzo Bernini, Le Corbusier, Michelangelo, Alvar Aalto, Sir John Soane, Francesco Borromini, Walter Gropius, and contemporary architects Tadao Ando, Zaha Hadid and Frank Gehry to name but a few. Each chronologically placed sketch is accompanied by text providing details about the architect's life, a look at the sketch in context, and the connection to specific buildings where appropriate. Style, media and meaning are also discussed, developing an explanation of the architect's thinking and intentions".--BOOKJACKET.

A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes
A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes

Author:

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-13

Total Pages: 736

ISBN-13: 1136806199

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A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes recognizes that change is a driving force in all the arts. It covers major trends in music, dance, theater, film, visual art, sculpture, and performance art--as well as architecture, science, and culture.