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Frank Lloyd Wright Paperback - 2006

by Robert McCarter

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A cultural icon who defined the twentieth-century American landscape, Frank Lloyd Wright has been studied from what seems to be every possible angle. While many books focus on his works, torrid personal life, or both, few solely consider his professional persona, as a man enmeshed in a web of prominent public figures and political ideas. In this new biography, Robert McCarter distills Wright's life and work into a concise account that explores the beliefs and relationships so powerfully reflected in his architectural works.

McCarter examines here how Wright aspired to influence America's evolving democratic society by the challenges his buildings posed to traditional views of private and public space. He investigates Wright's relationships with key leaders of art, industry, and society, and how their views came to have concrete significance in Wright's work and writings. Wright argued that architecture should be the "background or framework" for daily life, not the "object," and McCarter dissects how and why he aspired to this and other ideals, such as his belief in the ethical duty of architects to improve society and culture.

A penetrating study of the foremost pioneer in modern architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright offers a fascinating biographical chronicle that reveals the principles and relationships at the base of Wright's production.

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This book examines both the critical events and the defining works of'architecture - and the places, occasions, relationships and ideas that shaped them - in the life of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959).

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  • Title Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Author Robert McCarter
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st UK Edition
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Reaktion Books, London
  • Publication date June 1, 2006
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781861892683 / 1861892683
  • Weight 0.77 lbs (0.35 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.8 x 5.9 x 0.47 in (19.81 x 14.99 x 1.19 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

Robert McCarter is professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Florida. He is the author of several books on Frank Lloyd Wright and a recent monograph on Louis Kahn.

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