F.L. Wright by Amazonundefined

Price last update: 08/03/2024

Description

Acclaimed as the father of skyscrapers, the quintessentially American icon Frank Lloyd Wright (18671959) was an architect of aspiration. He believed in giving cultivated American life its fitting architectural equivalent and applied his idealism to structures across the continent, from suburban homes to churches, offices, skyscrapers, and the celebrated Guggenheim Museum.
Wrights work is distinguished by its harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture, and which found its paradigm at Fallingwater, a house in rural Pennsylvania, cited by the American Institute of Architects as the best all-time work of American architecture. Wright also made a particular mark with his use of industrial materials, and by the simple L or T plan of his Prairie House which became a model for rural architecture across America. Wright was also often involved in many of the interior elements of his buildings, such as the furniture and stained glass, paying particular attention to the balance between individual needs and community activity.
Exploring Wrights aspirations to augment American society through architecture, this book offers a concise introduction to his at once technological and Romantic response to the practical challenges of middle-class Americans.
About the series
Born back in 1985, the Basic Art Series has evolved into the best-selling art book collection ever published. Each book in TASCHENs Basic Architecture series features:
an introduction to the life and work of the architect
the major works in chronological order
information about the clients, architectural preconditions as well as construction problems and resolutions
a list of all the selected works and a map indicating the locations of the best and most famous buildings
approximately 120 illustrations (photographs, sketches, drafts, and plans)
O autorze
Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer
(19302017) se convirtió en aprendiz de Frank Lloyd Wright en la Sociedad Taliesin hasta que fue a estudiar a la Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes en París. En 1958, regresó para continuar su aprendizaje con Wright hasta la muerte de este en 1959. Pfeiffer creó los Archivos de la Fundación Frank Lloyd Wright, donde catalogó la colección de dibujos, manuscritos, cartas y otros documentos del arquitecto. Asimismo, es autor de numerosas publicaciones sobre la vida y la obra de Wright.
Peter Gössel
dirige una agencia de diseño para museos y exposiciones. Con TASCHEN ha publicado monografías sobre Julius Shulman, R. M. Schindler, John Lautner y Richard Neutra, así como varios títulos en la serie
Basic Architecture
.