Main entry:

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.

Title & Author:

Truth against the world : Frank Lloyd Wright speaks for an organic architecture / edited with introductions by Patrick J. Meehan.

Publication:

New York : Wiley, ©1987.

Description:

xiii, 473 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
"A Wiley-Interscience publication."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1: Introduction: The beginnings of truth: a talk with Mary Margaret McBride -- This is American architecture -- The architect -- 2: Organic architecture and some elements -- Organic architecture -- Ornamentation -- Hardware -- 3: The machine and architectural production -- The art and craft of the machine -- The American system ready-cut house -- The preassembled house -- The Marshall Erdman prefabricated houses -- On production -- 4: In the cause of improving the human condition -- An adventure in the realm of the human spirit -- Quality and the vision of the superior human building -- Building for the sick -- Architecture of the dead for the living -- 5: Honors, awards, and medals -- The gold medal of the American Institute of architects -- The gold medal for architecture of the National Institute of Arts and Letters -- The Frank P. Brown medal of the Franklin Institute -- To the students of London's architectural association -- 6: The truth about education -- Education and art in behalf of life -- To Princeton: mimic no more -- Progress in architectural education -- 7: Democracy -- Building a democracy -- The arts and industry in a democratic economy -- Architecture in a democracy -- 8: Broadacre city -- A new freedom for living in America -- Mr. Wright talks on Broadacre City in Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -- 9: The architecture of a free democratic government -- Government and architecture -- Building for local government: the Marin county civic center -- A national cultural center.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0471845094
9780471845096

Subject:

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 Et l'architecture organique.
Wright, Frank Lloyd 1867-1959
Wright, Frank Lloyd.
Organic architecture United States.
Architecture organique États-Unis.
Organic architecture.
Organische Architektur
Aufsatzsammlung
United States.
USA
Architectural design

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Speeches (documents).
Interviews.

Added entries:

Meehan, Patrick Joseph, editor, writer of introductions.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 156095
Call No.: NA44.W949.A35 1987a
Status: Available