[PDF] Years With Frank Lloyd Wright eBook

Author : Anthony Alofsin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 20,91 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 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.

Author : Jane King Hession
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 47,48 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781423601012

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'Frank Lloyd wright in New York: The Plaza Years, 1954-1959', examines the momentous five-year period when one of the world's greatest architects and one of the world's greatest cities coexisted. Authors Jane Hession and Debra Prickel bring each of these unequalled characters to life, exploring the fascinating contradiction between Wright's often-voiced disdain of New York and his pride and pleasure of living in one of the city's greatest landmarks: the Plaza Hotel. From his suite, or 'Taliesin the Third', as it became known, Wright supervised construction of the Guggenheim, sparred with the New York press, and received many famous vistitors such as Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller. home...;Michael Carroll, a renowned astronomical and paleo artist for more than twenty years, has done work for NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. His art has appeared in many magazines, including 'Time', 'National Geographic', 'Sky & Telescope', and ' Asimov's Science Fiction'. One of his paintings flew aboard MIR; another is resting at the bottom of the Atlantic, aboard Russia's ill-fated Mars 96 spacecraft. nd development without constraining

Author : Edgar Tafel
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,90 MB
Release : 2014-05-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 048614433X

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Insightful memoir by former apprentice presents a revealing portrait of Wright the man, the inspired teacher, the architect.

Author : Donald Hoffmann
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 25,77 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0486274306

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Traces the complicated development of Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater, including planning, site selection, and construction

Author : Bruce LaFontaine
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 13,4 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780486293622

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For coloring book enthusiasts and architecture students — 44 finely detailed renderings of Wright home and studio, Unity Temple, Guggenheim Museum, Robie House, Imperial Hotel, more.

Author : Ellen Labrecque
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 11,20 MB
Release : 2015-12-29
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0399539727

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Born in Wisconsin in 1867, Frank Lloyd Wright became obsessed with a set of building blocks his mother had given to him on his ninth birthday. He grew up to become the father of organic architecture and the greatest American architect of all time, having designed more than 1,100 buildings during his lifetime. These included private homes – such as the stunning Fallingwater, churches, temples, a hotel, and the world-famous Guggenheim Museum in New York City. When asked how he could create so many designs, he answered, “I can’t get them out fast enough.” Frank Lloyd Wright was a man ahead of his time who could barely keep up with his own ideas!

Author : K.L. Going
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 34,18 MB
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1442478284

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A little boy who loves to find shapes in nature grows up to be one of America’s greatest architects in this inspiring biography of Frank Lloyd Wright. When Frank Lloyd Wright was a baby, his mother dreamed that he would become a great architect. She gave him blocks to play with and he learned that shapes are made up of many other shapes. As he grew up, he loved finding shapes in nature. Wright went on to study architecture and create buildings that were one with the natural world around them. He became known as one of the greatest American architects of all time.

Author : Barry Bergdoll
Publisher : Moma
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 22,68 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Architecture, American
ISBN : 9781633450264

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Published in conjunction with a major exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, this catalogue reveals new perspectives on the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, a designer so prolific and familiar as to nearly preclude critical reexamination. Structured as a series of inquiries into the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives, the book is a collection of scholarly explorations rather than an attempt to construct a master narrative. Each chapter centers on a key object from the archive that an invited author has "unpacked"-interpreting and contextualizing it, tracing its meanings and connections, and juxtaposing it with other works from the archive, from MoMA, or from outside collections. The publication aims to open up Wright's work to questions, interrogations, and debates, and to highlight interpretations by contemporary scholars, both established Wright experts and others considering this iconic figure from new and illuminating perspectives.