Frank Lloyd Wright and Midway Gardens / Paul Kruty.

Main entry:

Kruty, Paul Samuel.

Title & Author:

Frank Lloyd Wright and Midway Gardens / Paul Kruty.

Publication:

Description:

xx, 262 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-252) and index.
1. A New Tale of Midway Gardens -- 2. Midway Garden and the "Architecture of Pleasure" -- 3. Designing Midway Gardens -- 4. Midway Gardens and Wright's Architecture -- 5. Midway Gardens and Twentieth-Century Architecture.

Summary:

Built in Chicago in 1914, Frank Lloyd Wright's Midway Gardens was a concert garden that included an indoor restaurant and dance hall, a five-tiered, outdoor summer garden with band shell, a tavern, and a private club - a work of art on the grandest scale uniting all the arts in an architecture of pleasure. In this illustrated volume, the first to focus solely on Midway Gardens, Paul Kruty traces the project's history and argues that its complex design and extensive use of decoration were the first unmistakable examples of a change in style and approach that was to characterize Wright's work for the next fifteen years.

Resources:
Book review (H-Net)

ISBN:

0252023668 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
9780252023668 (cloth ; acid-free paper)

Subject:

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 Criticism and interpretation.
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959
Midway Gardens (Chicago, Ill.)
Midway Gardens (Chicago, Ill)
Commercial buildings Illinois Chicago History 19th century.
Lost architecture Illinois Chicago.
Immeubles commerciaux Illinois Chicago Histoire 19e siècle.
Monuments disparus Illinois Chicago.
Buildings
Commercial buildings
Lost architecture
Concertzalen.
Commercial buildings Illinois Chicago.
Architects United States 20th century.
Chicago (Ill.) Buildings, structures, etc.
Illinois Chicago
Chicago (Ill.) Midway Gardens.
Commercial buildings History 19th century Illinois Chicago
Wright, Frank Lloyd Criticism and interpretation

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Books.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 179217
Call No.: ID NA44.W949.25.M5; ID:98-B1676
Status: Available

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