The Shining Brow: Frank Lloyd Wright
Author: Olgivanna Lloyd Wright
Publisher:
Published: 1960
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA personal portrait and appreciation of the master architect, written by his widow.
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The Shining Brow: Frank Lloyd Wright
Author: Olgivanna Lloyd Wright
Publisher:
Published: 1960
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA personal portrait and appreciation of the master architect, written by his widow.
The Life of Olgivanna Lloyd Wright
Author: Olgivanna Lloyd Wright
Publisher: Antique Collector's Club
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781939621597
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWeaves a narrative from Olgivanna's previously unpublished autobiography, together with vignettes from her other writings books, newspaper columns, and presentations.
Shining Brow
Author: Olgivanna Wright
Publisher: Horizon Press
Published: 1979-06-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780818000140
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShining Brow
Author: Paul Muldoon
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2011-05-19
Total Pages: 105
ISBN-13: 0571263909
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally commissioned by Madison Opera as a libretto for American composer Daron Aric Hagen, Shining Brow can be read as a dramatic poem in its own right. Displaying all the structural ingenuity and subtle resonance that have marked Paul Muldoon as the most influential poet of his generation, it tells, with suitable bravura, the story of architectural genius Frank Lloyd Wright and his catastrophic affair with the wife of a wealthy client.
Frank Lloyd Wright and Taliesin
Author: Frances Nemtin
Publisher: Pomegranate Communications
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 88
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTaliesin -- the country estate built by Frank Lloyd Wright between 1911 and 1959 -- has been a self-sufficient farm complex, a boarding school, a world-class architectural studio, and a fellowship for the study of architecture. What was it like to be a part of this vibrant community, to work in close association with the preeminent American architect? Author Frances Nemtin, currently the long-time manager and designer of the Taliesin flower gardens, joined the fellowship in 1946 after she met Wright while arranging a show of his work. Rich in anecdote and precise in description, her charmingly discursive tour of the fellowship includes rarely seen photographs and paintings from the fellowship archives evoking the beauty of Taliesin in all seasons, and the excitement of living in proximity to genius.
Architecture's Odd Couple
Author: Hugh Howard
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2016-05-24
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 1620403765
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn architectural terms, the twentieth century can be largely summed up with two names: Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson. Wright (1867–1959) began it with his romantic prairie style; Johnson (1906–2005) brought down the curtain with his spare postmodernist experiments. Between them, they built some of the most admired and discussed buildings in American history. Differing radically in their views on architecture, Wright and Johnson shared a restless creativity, enormous charisma, and an outspokenness that made each man irresistible to the media. Often publicly at odds, they were the twentieth century's flint and steel; their repeated encounters consistently set off sparks. Yet as acclaimed historian Hugh Howard shows, their rivalry was also a fruitful artistic conversation, one that yielded new directions for both men. It was not despite but rather because of their contentious--and not always admiring--relationship that they were able so powerfully to influence history. In Architecture's Odd Couple, Howard deftly traces the historical threads connecting the two men and offers readers a distinct perspective on the era they so enlivened with their designs. Featuring many of the structures that defined modern space--from Fallingwater to the Guggenheim, from the Glass House to the Seagram Building--this book presents an arresting portrait of modern architecture's odd couple and how they shaped the American landscape by shaping each other.
Reflections from the Shining Brow
Author: Kamal Amin
Publisher: Daniel & Daniel Publishers
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781564744708
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKamal Amin, an Egyptian-American architect, spent eight years training with Frank Lloyd Wright, and then remained associated with Wright's Taliesin Fellowship for eighteen years after Wright's death. Reflections from the Shining Brow is a fascinating variation on the immigrant experience, as well as the account of being mentored by a giant who was still at the height of his powers well into his eighties.
Death in a Prairie House
Author: William R. Drennan
Publisher: Terrace Books
Published: 2007-01-18
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780299222109
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe most pivotal and yet least understood event of Frank Lloyd Wright’s celebrated life involves the brutal murders in 1914 of seven adults and children dear to the architect and the destruction by fire of Taliesin, his landmark residence, near Spring Green, Wisconsin. Unaccountably, the details of that shocking crime have been largely ignored by Wright’s legion of biographers—a historical and cultural gap that is finally addressed in William Drennan’s exhaustively researched Death in a Prairie House: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Murders. In response to the scandal generated by his open affair with the proto-feminist and free love advocate Mamah Borthwick Cheney, Wright had begun to build Taliesin as a refuge and "love cottage" for himself and his mistress (both married at the time to others). Conceived as the apotheosis of Wright’s prairie house style, the original Taliesin would stand in all its isolated glory for only a few months before the bloody slayings that rocked the nation and reduced the structure itself to a smoking hull. Supplying both a gripping mystery story and an authoritative portrait of the artist as a young man, Drennan wades through the myths surrounding Wright and the massacre, casting fresh light on the formulation of Wright’s architectural ideology and the cataclysmic effects that the Taliesin murders exerted on the fabled architect and on his subsequent designs. Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the American Association of School Librarians, and Outstanding Book, selected by the Public Library Association
The Decorative Designs of Frank Lloyd Wright
Author: David A. Hanks
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 1999-01-01
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780486407302
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDetermined to create a completely integrated environment, Wright designed not only buildings, but furnishings, fixtures, appliances, decorative items and more. Noted architectural and design authority David Hanks has provided an informative, insightful text, along with over 200 line drawings and photos. 219 black-and-white illus. 24 in full color. New preface by the author.
