[PDF] Two Lectures On Architecture By Frank Lloyd Wright eBook

Author : Frank Lloyd Wright
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 27,81 MB
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0691232539

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Modern Architecture is a landmark text--the first book in which America's greatest architect put forth the principles of a fundamentally new, organic architecture that would reject the trappings of historical styles while avoiding the geometric abstraction of the machine aesthetic advocated by contemporary European modernists. One of the most important documents in the development of modern architecture and the career of Frank Lloyd Wright, Modern Architecture is a provocative and profound polemic against America's architectural eclecticism, commercial skyscrapers, and misguided urban planning. The book is also a work of savvy self-promotion, in which Wright not only advanced his own concept of an organic architecture but also framed it as having anticipated by decades--and bettered--what he saw as the reductive modernism of his European counterparts. Based on the 1931 original, for which Wright supplied the cover illustration, this beautiful edition includes a new introduction that puts Modern Architecture in its broader architectural, historical, and intellectual context for the first time. The subjects of these lively lectures--from "Machinery, Materials and Men" to "The Tyranny of the Skyscraper" and "The City"--move from a general statement of the conditions of modern culture to particular applications in the fields of architecture and urbanism at ever broadening scales. Wright's vision in Modern Architecture is ultimately to equate the truly modern with romanticism, imagination, beauty, and nature--all of which he connects with an underlying sense of American democratic freedom and individualism.

Author : John Lautner
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,72 MB
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : 9783764358631

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In 1937, then apprentice with Frank Lloyd Wright, John Lautner (1911-15) came to Los Angeles to supervise construction of the Sturgess Residence. Two years later he established hiw own office in Hollywood, building a house for himself with Henry Russel Hitchcock called "the best house by an architect under 30 in the US", the first in a long line of unique buildings. Never part of the architectural establishment, John Lautner has always practised what he called >. Among the best-known examples are the Malin Residence (Chemosphere), the Reiner Residence (Silvertop), the Arango Residence in Acapulco, and the Elrod Resdience in Palm Springs. His work ranges from exciting but low-cost houses to finely crafted large residences, to restaurants and educational facilities.

Author : Frank Lloyd Wright
Publisher : Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,32 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781848222328

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A reissue in the Frank Lloyd Wright 150th anniversary year of the series of lectures which the celebrated American architect gave in London in 1939 and which outline his core philosophy of 'organic architecture'. In May 1939, the celebrated American architect Frank Lloyd Wright visited London and gave four lectures at the Royal Institute of British Architects. The meetings were hailed at the time as the most remarkable events of recent architectural affairs in England, and the lectures were published as An Organic Architecture in September 1939 by Lund Humphries. The texts remain an important expression of the architect's core philosophy and are being reissued now in a new edition to commemorate the 150th anniversary in 2017 of Frank Lloyd Wright's birth. In the lectures, Frank Lloyd Wright discusses several of his recent projects, including his Usonian houses, his homes and studios at Taliesin, Wisconsin and Arizona, Fallingwater and the Johnson administration building. His charismatic, flamboyant character and hugely creative intelligence leap to life from the pages as he looks to the 'Future', both in terms of the then-imminent Second World War and his vision for cities. This new edition includes an insightful new essay by esteemed architectural historian, Professor Andrew Saint, which sets the lectures within context and highlights their continued resonance and appeal

Author : Frank Lloyd Wright
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 35,38 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Architects
ISBN : 9780847815470

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This volume begins with the exciting new contribution of three previously unpublished lectures the young Wright delivered to Chicago audiences as he expounded his basic philosophy of architecture, and ends with his famed "Kahn Lectures", given at Princeton University in 1930. 110 illustrations, 50 in color.

Author : Frank Lloyd Wright
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 16,41 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Architecture
ISBN :

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This volume begins with the exciting new contribution of three previously unpublished lectures the young Wright delivered to Chicago audiences as he expounded his basic philosophy of architecture, and ends with his famed "Kahn Lectures", given at Princeton University in 1930. 110 illustrations, 50 in color.

Author : Donald Leslie Johnson
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 17,9 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 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.

Author : John Rattenbury
Publisher : Pomegranate Communications
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 13,30 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN :

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Founded by the author and other architects who studied and worked with Wright, Taliesin Architects has remained true to Wright's principles and philosophy of organic architecture principles explicated here and illustrated with 47 representative design projects executed between 1959 and 2000. The pro