Understanding Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture / Donald Hoffmann.

Main entry:

Hoffmann, Donald.

Title & Author:

Understanding Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture / Donald Hoffmann.

Publication:

New York : Dover Publications, 1995.

Description:

x, 102 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of illustrations -- Introduction -- The romance of the horizontal -- Roof, cantilever and rift -- "A new sense of building entirely" -- The countenance of principle -- An idiocentric world -- Index.
Also issued online.

Summary:

"May be the best book on Wright ever written, with the exception of the master's own incomparable autobiography." ? New York Times Book Review.
Despite the vast literature about Frank Lloyd Wright, noted Wright scholar Donald Hoffmann contends that observations about Wright commonly fail to reach any understanding of his art and few commentaries deal with the principles of his architecture. What inspired his work? How did his architecture mature? What are the dynamics of its characteristic expression? Why will the formative principles always be valid?...

ISBN:

048628364X (pbk.)
9780486283647 (pbk.)

Subject:

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 Criticism and interpretation.
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.
Wright, Frank Lloyd 1867-1959
Wright, Frank Lloyd.
Architecture, American 20th century.
Architecture américaine 20e siècle.
Architecture, American.
Architecture
United States

Form/genre:

Quotations (texts)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 155344
Call No.: NA44.W949.9 H61 1995
Status: Available

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