Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959)
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Sobre El Autor
Wright is widely considered the greatest American architect and certainly one of the most influential. Throughout a career of nearly 70 years, he produced masterpiece after masterpiece, each different and boldly new and yet each with the unmistakable touch of Wright's genius in the treatment of mostrar más material, the detailing, and the overall concept. Born in Wisconsin of Welsh ancestry, Wright studied civil engineering at the University of Wisconsin and began his career in Chicago as chief assistant to Louis Henry Sullivan, who influenced his early thinking on the American architect as harbinger of democracy and on the organic nature of the true architecture. Out of these ideas, Wright developed the so-called prairie house, of which the Robie House in Chicago and the Avery Coonley House in Riverdale, Illinois, are outstanding examples. In the "prairie-style," Wright used terraces and porches to allow the inside to flow easily outside. Movement within such houses is also open and free-floating from room to room and from layer to layer. Public buildings followed: the Larkin Administration Building in Buffalo (destroyed) and the Unity Temple in Oak Park, Illinois, the former probably the most original and seminal office building up to that time (1905). The Midway Gardens in Chicago and the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo (both gone) came next, winning Wright still greater acclaim. Personal tragedy, misunderstanding, and neglect dogged Wright's middle years, but he prevailed, and in his later life gathered enormous success and fame. The masterworks of his mature years are the Johnson Wax Building in Racine, Wisconsin, and Fallingwater, Bear Run, Pennsylvania---with its bold cantilevered balconies over a running stream, probably the most admired and pictured private house in American architecture; then, toward the end of his life, the spiral design of the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Wright's own houses, to which he joined architectural studios, are also noteworthy: Taliesin West was a true Shangri-la in the Arizona desert, to which he turned in order to escape the severe winters in Wisconsin, where he had built his extraordinary Taliesin East. Wright was a prolific and highly outspoken writer, ever polemical, ever ready to propagate his ideas and himself. All of his books reflect a passionate dedication to his beliefs---in organic architecture, democracy, and creativity. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Series
Obras de Frank Lloyd Wright
On and by Frank Lloyd Wright: A Primer of Architectural Principles (1996) — Contribuidor — 68 copias
In the Cause of Architecture: Essays by Frank Lloyd Wright for Architectural Record, 1908-1952 (1975) 38 copias
At Taliesin: Newspaper Columns by Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Friendship, 1934 - 1937 (1992) 17 copias
Monona Terrace: Frank Lloyd Wright's Vision on the Lake (1997) — Editor, algunas ediciones — 14 copias
Sixty years of living architecture: The work of Frank Lloyd Wright: [exhibition] the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1952) 9 copias
Wright in Arizona: The Early Work of Pedro E. Guerrero: A Selection of Photographs from the Pedro E. Guerrero… (1996) 8 copias
Taliesin 6 copias
Frank Lloyd Wright 6 copias
Frank Lloyd Wright Houses: Book of Postcards (Frank Lloyd Wright Collection (Postcards)) (2006) 4 copias
Frank Lloyd Wright 4 copias
In the Nature of Materials 1ST Edition: The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright 1887-1941 (1942) 3 copias
Frank Lloyd Wright papers 2 copias
Japanese Prints Exhibition 2 copias
designs for houses 2 copias
Testamento 2 copias
Furanku roido raito no jūtaku 2 copias
Twentieth-Century Houses (Architecture 3s): Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, Charles and Ray Eames (1999) — Ilustrador — 2 copias
Frank Lloyd Wright : essential texts 2 copias
The Robie House 2 copias
Frank Lloyd Wright and Viollet-Le-Duc: Organic Architecture and Design from 1850 to 1950 (1986) 2 copias
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, N.Y., 1943-59 : Marin County Civic Center, California, 1957-1970 (1975) 1 copia
Cassina: Frank Lloyd Wright 1 copia
Schriften und Bauten 1 copia
Taliesin West 1 copia
Taliesin East, Spring Green, Wisconsin, 1925- ; Taliesin West, Paradise Valley, Arizona, 1938- 1 copia
The Solomon R.Guggenheim Museum 1 copia
Decorative Tile in Architecture 1 copia
The Living City 1 copia
Taliesin: East and West 1 copia
Global Interior Number 9 1 copia
Selected drawings portfolio 1 copia
Away With the Realtor 1 copia
The Industrial Revolution Runs Away: The Disappearing City (Edition Limited to 1,250 Numbered Copies) (1962) 1 copia
Stained Glass 1 copia
The Taliesin Fellowship 1 copia
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Wright, Frank Lincoln (born)
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1867-06-08
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1959-04-09
- Lugar de sepultura
- Unity Chapel, Spring Green, Wisconsin (first)
Taliesin West, Scottsdale, Arizona (second) - Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Richland Center, Wisconsin, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Phoenix, Arizona, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Richland Center, Wisconsin, USA
Spring Green, Wisconsin, USA
Weymouth, Massachusetts, USA
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Oak Park, Illinois, USA
Florence, Italy (mostrar todos 8)
Fiesole, Italy
Scottsdale, Arizona, USA - Educación
- University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Ocupaciones
- architect
- Relaciones
- Wright, John Lloyd (son)
Wright, Lloyd (son)
Wright, Eric Lloyd (grandson)
Enright, Maginel Wright (sister)
Enright, Elizabeth (niece) - Organizaciones
- Cliff Dwellers
- Premios y honores
- Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1955)
Miembros
Debates
Frank Lloyd Wright en Memoirs and autobiographies (diciembre 2023)
Reseñas
Frank Lloyd Wright - Collected Writings IV por Frank Lloyd Wright
This is the fourth volume in the highly acclaimed series of Wright's written works, most of which are out of print and have never before been systematically compiled for publication. Arranged chronologically, Volume IV includes the years of world conflict and postwar recovery--a rich, prolific period during which Wright created designs for some of his best-known buildings.
With 57 illustrations and a fold-out of Broadacre City in full colour, where he presents a detailed plan for a city where a natural environment is achieved by imaginative use of material resources.
If anybody were most qualified to write about Fallingwater, it would be Edgar Kaufmann Jr., son of the client, apprentice to Wright, part-time occupant of the house for 27 years, and heir who donated it to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy. Logically then, this large-format book has Kaufmann's recollections, as well as photos by Christopher Little (the photographer of choice for the building), some beautiful drawings in color, and much more. It is a fitting balance of Kaufmann the client's son and Kaufmann the architectural historian.… (más)
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- Obras
- 191
- También por
- 10
- Miembros
- 3,730
- Popularidad
- #6,791
- Valoración
- 3.8
- Reseñas
- 31
- ISBNs
- 224
- Idiomas
- 10
- Favorito
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