Wright and New York - The Making of America`s Architect

《赖特和纽约-美国建筑师的创作》

Hardcover: 352页

出版社: Yale University Press (2019年5月21日)

语种： English

ISBN-10: 0300238851

ISBN-13: 978-0300238853

产品尺寸及重量: 152 x 229 x 30.48mm | 680.39g

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

内容简介

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) took his first major trip to New York in 1909, fleeing a failed marriage and artistic stagnation. He returned a decade later, his personal life and architectural career again in crisis. Booming 1920s New York served as a refuge, but it also challenged him and resurrected his career. The city connected Wright with important clients and commissions that would harness his creative energy and define his role in modern architecture, even as the stock market crash took its toll on his benefactors.

Wright denounced New York as an "unlivable prison" even as he reveled in its culture. The city became an urban foil for Wright's work in the desert and in the "organic architecture" he promoted as an alternative to American Art Deco and the International Style. New York became a major protagonist at the end of Wright's life, as he spent his final years at the Plaza Hotel working on the Guggenheim Museum, the building that would cement his legacy.

Review

"Finalist, PROSE AWARDS, 2020, for distinguished professional and scholarly excellence."--The PROSE AWARDS.

Book Description

This dazzling dual portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright and early 20th-century New York reveals the city’s role in establishing the career of America’s most famous architect.

About the Author

Anthony Alofsin is Roland Roessner Centennial Professor of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin.