Frank Lloyd Wright fu uno degli architetti più importanti e influenti al mondo. Sviluppò una serie di stili altamente individuali, influenzò il design di edifici in tutto il mondo e ancora oggi rimane l'architetto più famoso d'America. Wright era anche molto conosciuto durante la sua vita. La sua colorata vita personale finiva frequentemente sulle prime pagine, in particolare per il fallimento dei suoi primi due matrimoni e per l'incendio e gli omicidi nel suo studio di Taliesin nel 1914.
Frank Lloyd Wright pioneered a bold kind of architecture, one in which the
spirit of modern man truly 'lived in his buildings'. This title presents a
compendium of Wright's some of the most critically important - and personally
revealing - writings on various conceivable aspects of his craft.
The complete Wasmuth drawings, 1910. Wright's early experiments in organic design: 100 plates of buildings from Oak Park period from first edition. Includes Wright's iconoclastic introduction.
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) gilt als der bedeutendste amerikanische Architekt und hat mit seinem einflussreichen Werk die Moderne geprägt. TASCHEN widmet ihm eine dreibändige Monographie, die alle seine rund 1.100 realisierten und unrealisierten Entwürfe behandelt. In Zusammenarbeit mit den Frank Lloyd Wright Archives in Taliesin, Arizona, wird Wrights bemerkenswertes Leben und Werk gewürdigt. Der Band beginnt mit Wrights Jahren in Japan, insbesondere am Imperial Hotel, gefolgt von persönlichen Turbulenzen. 1922 ließ er sich von seiner ersten Frau Catherine scheiden und heiratete Miriam Noel, die ihn jedoch bald darauf verließ. In dieser schwierigen Phase belastete ein Feuer in Taliesin seine bereits angespannte finanzielle Situation, was zu Zwangsvollstreckungen führte. Um seinen Lebensunterhalt zu sichern, begann Wright, Zeitungsartikel zu schreiben und veröffentlichte 1932 seine gefeierte Autobiografie. Trotz der Weltwirtschaftskrise und unvollendeter Entwürfe entwickelte er neue Konzepte, darunter die Blockbauweise, die zu einzigartigen Werken wie dem Ennis-Haus führte. 1936 vollendete er das Herbert-Jacobs-Haus mit seinen usonischen Techniken, die erschwingliches Wohnen für Familien ermöglichen sollten. Nach seinem Umzug nach Arizona schuf er mit seinen Studenten Taliesin West und erlebte eine Wiederbelebung seines Schaffens, die in den ikonischen Fallingwater und Johnson Buildings gipfelte. Seine usonischen Häuser rev
This is an insight into the career of 20th-century architect Frank Lloyd Wright. It features photographs, drawings and floorplans for more than 20 of his buildings, including his home and studio in Illinois and the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Each house is introduced with quotes from Wright.
Early Visions : The Great Achievements Of The Oak Park Years
166pagine
6 ore di lettura
Originally published as Ausgefuhrte Bauten in Germany in 1911, Frank Lloyd Wright: Early Visions reproduces the first book of photographs of Wright's architecture. Here are the works of what is called his Oak Park period, the years between 1893 and 1910 when Wright lived and worked in Oak Park, Illinois. Included are more than thirty houses, as well as some public buildings. Early Visions covers the idealistic, formative years of Frank Lloyd Wright's career. In many ways, they were the most important years. A number of the buildings reproduced have been demolished, but many others still stand. Indeed, today under the auspices of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Oak Park celebrates the Frank Lloyd Wright Prairie School of Architecture in a National Historic District, with twenty-five structures by Wright. It is the largest collection of his built designs in the world. His home and studio at 951 Chicago Avenue, where he lived and worked from 1889 to 1909, is open to the public, and tours of his other buildings may be arranged. In this new edition of the first book of Wright's architectural photographs, the spirit of these and other early works by the greatest of American architects remains bold and vital.
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