Neil Levine's study of the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright,
beginning with his work in Oak Park in the late 1880s and
culminating in the construction of the Guggenheim museum in New
York and the Marin County Civic Center in the 1950s, if the first
comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the architect's entire
career since the opening of the Wright Archives over a decade ago.
The most celebrated and prolific of modern architects, Wright built
more than four hundred buildings and designed at least twice as
many more. The characteristic features of his work--the open plan,
dynamic space, fragmented volumes, natural materials, and integral
structure--established the basic way that we think about modern
architecture. For a general audience, this engaging book provides
an introduction to Wright's remarkable accomplishments, as seen
against the background of his eventful and often tragic life. For
the architect or the architectural historian, it will be an
important source of new insights into the development of Wright's
whole body of work. It integrates biographical and historical
material in a chronologically ordered framework that makes sense of
his enormously varied career, and it provides over four hundred
illustrations running parallel to the text.
Levine conveys the meanings of the continuities and changes that
he sees I Wright's architecture and thought by focusing successive
chapters on his most significant buildings, such as the Winslow
House, Taliesin, Hollyhock House, Fallingwater, Tailsen west, and
the Guggenheim Museum. A new understanding of the representational
imagery and narrative structure of Wright's work, along with a
much-needed reconsideration of its historical and contextual
underpinnings, gives this study a unique place in the writings on
Wright. In contrast to the emphasis a previous generation of
critics and historians placed on Wright's earlier buildings, this
book offers a broader perspective that sees Wright's later work as
the culmination of his earlier efforts and the basis for a new
understanding of the centrality of his career to the evolution of
modern architecture as a whole.
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