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Travels with Frank Lloyd Wright: The First Global Architect 2017 (Hardcover)
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Travels with Frank Lloyd Wright: The First Global Architect 2017 (Hardcover)
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By retracing Frank Lloyd Wright's footsteps on journeys he made
beyond his homeland of the USA, this book explores his global
ambitions and his lasting legacy and offers an original and
contemporary view of Wright and his architecture. While Lloyd
Wright is perceived as the quintessential American architect, in
fact he was well-travelled, and these six journeys were to develop
and promote his globalising 'organic' philosophy. The author takes
off first to Japan and Germany to explore the way Wright's visits
to these countries informed and framed his 'Prairie House' period.
He then travels to Russia and the UK, where Wright presented his
global 'Usonian' manifesto. The final two chapters pursue Wright to
Italy and the Middle East as part of his 'Legacy' period. The book
is beautifully illustrated with Wright's own sketches and
photographs, as well as some historical photographs of Wright's
original journeys and works. The author meets people who are living
and coping with Wright's 'organic' architecture today and asks them
whether their homes are still true to Wright's intent or whether
there is something else that made their home particular.By
considering Wright beyond America, his architecture is critiqued
against different cultural settings so that it can be evaluated as
emerging from a new globalised era of architectural production. The
author reflects on Frank Lloyd Wright as an early promoter of
globalisation - in fact, as the first 'global architect'.
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