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Frank Lloyd Wright & Lewis Mumford by Frank Lloyd Wright,Lewis Mumford,Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer,Robert Wojtowicz Pdf
Their 160 letters from 1926-1958 covered a wide range of topics, including Wright's position on the history of American architecture and contemporary practice, their friends and rivals, the invention and spread of the International Style, and political events in Europe and the United States.".
A cultural icon who defined the twentieth-century American landscape, Frank Lloyd Wright has been studied from what seems to be every possible angle. While many books focus on his works, torrid personal life, or both, few solely consider his professional persona, as a man enmeshed in a web of prominent public figures and political ideas. In this new biography, Robert McCarter distills Wright’s life and work into a concise account that explores the beliefs and relationships so powerfully reflected in his architectural works. McCarter examines here how Wright aspired to influence America’s evolving democratic society by the challenges his buildings posed to traditional views of private and public space. He investigates Wright’s relationships with key leaders of art, industry, and society, and how their views came to have concrete significance in Wright’s work and writings. Wright argued that architecture should be the “background or framework” for daily life, not the “object,” and McCarter dissects how and why he aspired to this and other ideals, such as his belief in the ethical duty of architects to improve society and culture. A penetrating study of the foremost pioneer in modern architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright offers a fascinating biographical chronicle that reveals the principles and relationships at the base of Wright’s production.
Kenneth Bendiner journeys from the Renaissance to the present day—through the works of artists from Rembrandt to Manet to Warhol—to make the case that, though understudied, paintings of food are so important that they should be considered a separate classification of art, a genre unto themselves.
Frank Lloyd Wright Versus America by Donald Leslie Johnson Pdf
For his critics and biographers, the 1930s have always been the most challenging period of Frank Lloyd Wright's career. This account uses the architect's long-inaccessable archives at Taliesin West to provide a balanced evaluation of Wright in the 1930s. It separates Wright's design activities from his self-promotion and places his philosophy of individualism within the context of the times.
Letters to Architects presents letters addressed to architects practicing throughout the world, many of them contemporaries with Frank Lloyd Wright during the first half of the twentieth century. Taken as a whole, this selection of letters aims at revealing an underlying unity of purpose: the growth of his work and the unquestionable magnitude of influence it engendered in the world of architecture. The letters are organized into five sections. Section One presents the first publication ever to be made of the letters between Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis H. Sullivan. Section Two traces Wright's concern, through letters addressed to both European and American architects, that his work be understood as the cornerstone of an American Culture. In Section Three, correspondence has been selected to include three specific persons: Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Lewis Mumford, and Howard Myers. These men offered Wright a special forum from which he could speak to the profession as a whole, most particularly through the medium of publication. Section Four narrates, by means of letters to various architects concerned with the assembling and exhibition of the largest one man architectural exhibition ever to be produced, the details, trials, problems, and results of such a large undertaking. Section Five recounts the honors bestowed on Frank Lloyd Wright first in England, in 1941, and then in his own country, in 1949. It shows his concern for the profession of architecture in the moving address he gave at the occasion of his receiving the Gold Medal from the American Institute of Architects.
Trente ans de correspondance, 1926-1959 by Lewis Mumford,Frank Lloyd Wright Pdf
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), le celebre architecte et theoricien de l'architecture organique, et l'historien et critique Lewis Mumford (1895-1990) ont joue un role crucial dans l'histoire de l'architecture et de l'urbanisme, comme en temoignent les quelque cent cinquante lettres qu'ils ont echangees de 1926 a 1959. Cette correspondance passionnante, clairvoyante et spirituelle, mais non depourvue de tensions, illustre a merveille le debat intellectuel sur l'architecture americaine et internationale du xxe siecle. C'est l'architecte, alors age de presque soixante ans et dans une phase difficile au milieu de sa carriere, qui prend l'initiative d'ecrire au jeune critique newyorkais, tout juste trentenaire, pour le remercier de son soutien. Toujours au fait de l'evolution contemporaine de l'architecture, les deux hommes evoquent, au fil du temps, leurs oeuvres respectives, leurs allies et leurs adversaires, l'avenement du Style international et les evenements politiques qui bouleversent l'Europe et les Etats-Unis. Ils s'opposent a la severe orthodoxie de modernistes comme Le Corbusier et pronent tous deux un meilleur usage de l'architecture et de la technologie au profit de l'humanite et de l'environnement, un point de vue qui faisait presque exception dans le panorama architectural de l'entredeux-guerres. Affectueux et elogieux, Wright tient a l'approbation de Mumford et aspire a un rapport plus etroit. Plus prudent, souhaitant conserver son independance en tant que critique, Mumford refuse les multiples invitations de Wright a lui rendre visite dans son domaine de Taliesin, mais il n'en admire pas moins l'oeuvre de l'architecte qui l'inspire. La Seconde Guerre mondiale interrompt brutalement cet echange profond et fecond, Mumford etant partisan de l'intervention des Etats-Unis en Europe, et Wright pacifiste et protectionniste. La correspondance ne reprendra que dix ans plus tard, a l'initiative de Wright. Une fois reconcilies, malgre leurs desaccords politiques et esthetiques, ces deux geants de la culture americaine, a la fois conservateurs et iconoclastes, multiplient les temoignages d'affection et d'admiration.
These writings cover Wright's personality and life style, Wright's clients and his work, the discovery of Wright by Europeans, and more recent evaluations by Lewis Mumford and Reyner Banham, among others.
Author : Kathryn Smith Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art Page : 234 pages File Size : 50,8 Mb Release : 2004 Category : Architecture ISBN : 0870700553
Discussion and documents relating to an exhibition called "Frank Lloyd Wright, American Architect", held at the Museum of Modern Art from Nov. 12, 1940 to Jan. 5, 1941.
Lewis Mumford and Patrick Geddes by Frank G. Novak Jr. Pdf
I am a disciple of Patrick Geddes, and I am an abject admirer of everything he has said and done. The tantalising nearness of everything we most want; were it not for some fatal, stubborn grain in both of us, Geddes and I, linked together, intellectual and emotional, might still conquer the world. For lack of this, he will be imperfectly articulate and I, perhaps, will have nothing to say. These two comments by Lewis Mumford, written at either end of his largely epistolary relationship with Patrick Geddes, frame an astonishing correspondence between two of our century's greatest thinkers on Western civilisation. Mumford was the versatile New York cultural critic, famous for his writings on architecture, the city and technology. His master, Geddes, was the Scots biologist, sociologist and planner, the professor of things in general. The letters reveal much about the intellectual culture of the first half of the Twentieth Century as they chart an extraordinary Anglo-American relationship between very different men; this friendship, initially of master and disciple, even father/son, was based on a shared intellectual quest, and inspired the work of both. All that exists of those letters, and much previously unpublished material besides, has been meticulously collected and edited by Frank G. Novak Jnr..
