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This book covers Frank Lloyd Wright's global goals, his lasting legacy, and provides a fresh and modern perspective on Wright and his architecture by following his travels outside of his own USA. Although Lloyd Wright is regarded as the prototypical American architect, he actually traveled much, and these six trips helped him to create and popularize his philosophy of globalization known as "organic." To examine how Wright's travels to Japan and Germany influenced and framed his "Prairie House" era, the author first departs for these two nations. After that, he goes to the UK and Russia, where Wright delivered his global "Usonian" manifesto. In his "Legacy" era, Wright is followed in the final two chapters to Italy and the Middle East. The author meets people who are living and coping with Wright's "organic" architecture today and asks them if their homes are still true to Wright's intent or if there is anything else that made their home particular. The book is beautifully illustrated with his own sketches and photographs as well as some historical photographs of Wright's original journeys and works. Wright's architecture is analyzed against other cultural contexts by thinking about him outside of America, allowing his work to be assessed as coming from a new, globally oriented era of architectural creation. Frank Lloyd is remembered in it. It considers Frank Lloyd Wright as the first international "starchitect" and an early proponent of globalization. Wright's architecture is evaluated in light of other cultural contexts by thinking about him outside of America, allowing us to determine whether or not his work represents the beginning of a new, globally oriented age in architectural creation. It considers Frank Lloyd Wright as the first international "starchitect" and an early proponent of globalization.

Travels with Frank Lloyd Wright: The First Global Architect

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Color
    • 15 x 23
    • Includes 36 illustrations
    • 192 pages
    • English
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