"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.
General
Imprint: |
Princeton University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
February 2008 |
First published: |
2008 |
Authors: |
Frank Lloyd Wright
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Introduction by: |
Neil Levine
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Dimensions: |
274 x 215 x 21mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
114 |
Edition: |
Revised edition |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-691-12937-2 |
Categories: |
Books >
Arts & Architecture >
Architecture >
General
|
LSN: |
0-691-12937-1 |
Barcode: |
9780691129372 |
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