Frank Lloyd Wright

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Recognized as a dominant figure in the history of modern architecture and the greatest design influence in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century, Frank Lloyd Wright created, during his long and prolific career, a unique body of work that endures to this day. Beginning In 1889 with the design for his own house In Oak Park, Illinois, and continuing with hundreds of designs for residential, commercial, ecclesiastical, educational and civic structures, Wright's varied architecture is unified only by the underlying organic principles of change and innovation. Revolutionizing residential architecture with the disparate expressions of his simple creed, "Out of the ground and Into the light!", Wright's houses feature a sense of unity and privacy, and a free flow of Interior space. Wright sought synthesis in his projects by designing, whenever possible, everything from furniture, art glass and... Tovább

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Recognized as a dominant figure in the history of modern architecture and the greatest design influence in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century, Frank Lloyd Wright created, during his long and prolific career, a unique body of work that endures to this day. Beginning In 1889 with the design for his own house In Oak Park, Illinois, and continuing with hundreds of designs for residential, commercial, ecclesiastical, educational and civic structures, Wright's varied architecture is unified only by the underlying organic principles of change and innovation. Revolutionizing residential architecture with the disparate expressions of his simple creed, "Out of the ground and Into the light!", Wright's houses feature a sense of unity and privacy, and a free flow of Interior space. Wright sought synthesis in his projects by designing, whenever possible, everything from furniture, art glass and lighting fixtures to table linens, carpets and carports. In his Prairie Houses, textile-block structures and Usonlan houses -culminating In his masterpiece, Falllngwater-Wrlght experimented with forms, materials and technology In ever-evolving designs.
Wright designed such ambitious commercial masterworks as the Imperial Hotel In Tokyo, the Arizona Blltmore Hotel, the S.C. Johnson and Son Administration Building and Research Tower, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum - the latter for which he Is perhaps best known. Equally Inspired are Wright's ecclesiastical designs. From Unity Temple In Illinois, designed early In his career, to the Unitarian Church, Temple Beth Sholom, and Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, created toward the end of Wright's career, Wright's houses of worship combine bright and restful Interiors with strikingly innovative exteriors.
Perpetuated In the continuing work of the Taliesin Fellowship - founded by Wright during the Depression as a community of worker-apprentices - Wright's enduring legacy Is also manifest In the stuctures he designed. This volume pays tribute to the life and works of Frank Lloyd Wright with more than 180 photographs Illustrating 60 selected buildings, complemented by a descriptive and incisive text Vissza