The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright

by Levine, Neil; Wright, Frank Lloyd

• ISBN13: 9780691033716
• ISBN10: 0691033714
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-03-01
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr

Summary

Although a founding figure of modern architecture as well as its most celebrated and prolific practitioner, Frank Lloyd Wright has always remained elusively outside the mainstream. In this book, the architectural historian Neil Levine redefines our understanding of Wright in the first comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the architect's entire career since the opening of the Wright Archives. Making use of the architect's drawings, notes, writings, and personal and professional correspondence, the author weaves together historical and biographical material in a carefully documented, chronologically ordered framework that gives new meaning and relevance to Wright's enormously varied production.

Author Biography

Neil Levine has been the Banister Fletcher Professor of Architecture at the University of London and the Slade Professor of Fine Art at Cambridge University.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Beginnings of the Prairie House	p. 1
Abstraction and Analysis in the Architecture of the Oak Park Years	p. 23
Voluntary Exile in Fiesole	p. 59
The Story of Taliesin	p. 75
Building against Nature on the Pacific Rim	p. 113
From Los Angeles to Lake Tahoe and Death Valley	p. 149
Writing An Autobiography, Reading the Arizona Desert	p. 191
The Temporal Dimension of Fallingwater	p. 217
The Traces of Prehistory at Taliesin West	p. 255
The Guggenheim Museum's Logic of Inversion	p. 299
Signs of Identity in an Increasingly One-Dimensional World	p. 365
Conclusion: Wright and His/story	p. 419
Notes	p. 435
Bibliographical Note	p. 505
List of Illustrations	p. 507
Index	p. 515
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