The Essential Frank Lloyd Wright

Critical Writings on Architecture
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-691-14632-4
Verlag: Princeton University Press

Buch, Englisch, 464 Seiten, Format (B × H): 204 mm x 252 mm, Gewicht: 1116 g

He was the most iconoclastic of architects, and at the height of his career his output of writings about architecture was as prolific and visionary as his architecture itself. Frank Lloyd Wright pioneered a bold new kind of architecture, one in which the spirit of modern man truly "lived in his buildings." The Essential Frank Lloyd Wright is a one-volume compendium of Wright's most critically important--and personally revealing--writings on every conceivable aspect of his craft. Wright was perhaps the most influential and inspired architect of the twentieth century, and this is the only book that gathers all of his most significant essays, lectures, and articles on architecture. Bruce Pfeiffer includes each piece in its entirety to present the architect's writings as he originally intended them. Beginning early in Wright's career with "The Art and Craft of the Machine" in 1901, the book follows major themes through The Disappearing City, The Natural House, and many other writings, and ends with A Testament in 1957, published two years before his death. This volume is beautifully illustrated with original drawings and photographs, and is complemented by Pfeiffer's general introduction, which provides history and context. The Essential Frank Lloyd Wright is a must-have resource for architects and scholars and a delight for general readers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architekten & Architekturbüros
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architekturtheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer 1

Part I

1901 The Art and Craft of the Machine 23

1908 I n the Cause of Architecture 34

1910 A usgef?hrte Bauten und Entw?rfe von Frank Lloyd Wright 52

1912 The Japanese Print: An Interpretation 66

1924 Louis Henry Sullivan: His Work 75

1925 I n the Cause of Architecture: The Third Dimension 80

1927 I n the Cause of Architecture I: The Architect and the Machine 92

In the Cause of Architecture II: Standardization, the Soul of the Machine 95

In the Cause of Architecture II: Steel 98

In the Cause of Architecture IV: Fabrication and Imagination 102

In the Cause of Architecture V: The New World 106

1928 In the Cause of Architecture I: The Logic of the Plan 109

In the Cause of Architecture II: What "Styles" Mean to the Architect 115

In the Cause of Architecture II: The Meaning of Materials--

Stone 120

n the Cause of Architecture IV: The Meaning of Materials--Wood 126

In the Cause of Architecture V: The Meaning of Materials--The Kiln 131

In the Cause of Architecture VI: The Meaning of Materials--Glass 137

In the Cause of Architecture VI: The Meaning of Materials--Concrete 141

In the Cause of Architecture VI: Sheet Metal and a Modern Instance 145

In the Cause of Architecture IX: The Terms 151

Part II

1931 Modern Architecture, Being the Kahn Lectures (Princeton) 159

Two Lectures on Architecture (Art Institute of Chicago) 217

1932 The Disappearing City 235

1937 A rchitecture and Modern Life: Some Aspects of the Past

and Present of Architecture 276

1938 "The Architectural Forum" 292

Part III

1954 The Natural House 319

1957 A Testament 365

Index 441

Über Autor(innen)

Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer is director of the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives at the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. He is the author or editor of many books on Wright, including "Frank Lloyd Wright and Lewis Mumford: Thirty Years of Correspondence"