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ALOFSIN , ANTHONY / REF : FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT Frank Lloyd Wright - Europe and Beyond
Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1999. First. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Photos. 10 x 8-3/4 x 1 " 0520211162 1999 Hardcover in DJ ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... Still Sealed in original publisher's shrinkwrap ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... This is a handsome hefty book, nearly 9 x 10 " size, weighing 3 pounds ... 294 pages ... well illustrated ... Frank Lloyd Wright ... ' Wright's work, his reputation, and his long and colorful career ... and life ... have made him an icon of American architecture ... Ask any American to name a famous architect, and he is the person they are most likely to name to this day ... But despite his status, his influence throughout a long and active practice spanning the years 1896 to 1959 is so wide and complex that it has been difficult to grasp fully ... The essays in this book look not at the U.S.A, the content usually associated with Wright, but at countries around the globe... The editor has assembled a superb collection of scholars to examine Wright's importance from Japan to Great Britain, France to Chile, Mexico to Russia, and the Middle East ... Interwoven in the essays are stories of champions & critics, rivals, acolytes, books & exhibitions, attitudes toward America & individualism, & the many ways Wright's ideas were brought to the world ... Together, this book represents a first look at Wright's impact abroad, some from the perspective of natives of the countries discussed & others from that of informed outsiders ... Of special note is Bruno Zevi, with a firsthand account of travelling with Wright in Italy ... Zevi was instrumental in bringing Wright's ideas to Italy & in helping launch the movement for organic architecture ... Of unusual interest in light of today's events in Iraq is Mina Marefat with an essay on Wright's elaborate designs for a cultural center for the city of Baghdad ... The Baghdad projects, which were never realized after the assassination of King Faisal II, were Wright's principal focus in his last decade ... a collection of ground-breaking essays exploring Wright's influence abroad, edited by Wright scholar Alofsin ... Contributors are : Anthony Alofsin - Wright, Influence, and the World at Large ... Margo Stipe - Wright and Japan ... Mariette van Stralen - Kindred Spirits Holland, Wright, and Wijdeveld ... Bruno Zevi - Wright and Italy A Recollection ... Maristella Casciato - Wright and Italy The Promise of Organic Architecture ... Jean-Louis Cohen - Useful Hostage Constructing Wright in Soviet Russia and France ... Andrew Saint - Wright and Great Britain ... Alberto Sartori - Wright and South America ... Keith Eggener - Towards and Organic Architecture in Mexico ... Mina Marefat - Wright's Baghdad ... Nine international experts to probe Wright's influence in Europe, the Americas, Iraq, and Japan ... Their research corrects misconceptions and oversimplifications that have inevitably grown up around a figure as legendary as Wright ... Leonard K. Eaton, Emil Lorch Professor of Architecture Emeritus, University of Michigan says of this book : ' This collection of essays on the international impact of Frank Lloyd Wright is a volume that has long been needed ... All the contributors are authorities in their fields ... The book is exceptionally well edited and illustrated ; highly recommended ' ... Gwendolyn Wright, Prof. of Architecture at Columbia University says that it ' moves architectural history beyond its conventional boundaries ... and opens up new dimensions in our understanding of Wright's own ouvre, and of the broader patterns of transnational influence in the modern world ' ... Terence ... ' Assembles an impressive array of scholarly essays...this volume rounds out Wright as a true world architect ' ... Terence Riley , Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art , New York, and editor of the 1994 exhibition catalog 'Frank Lloyd Wright , Architect' , says this book 'solidly rounds out the recent wave of scholarly reappraisal of Wright's work, shedding light on the far reaches of the architect's influence across the globe, as well as revealing the many references to Wright's work whose sources can only be found overseas ' ... Anthony Alofsin is Martin Kermacy Centennial Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He has written a new introduction to Frank Lloyd Wright's famous Wasmuth monograph, Ausgeführte Bauten und Entwürfe von Frank Lloyd Wright ( Studies and Executed Buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright, 1998 ) and is the author of Frank Lloyd Wright: The Lost Years, 1910-1922 .... " Frank Lloyd Wright - Europe and Beyond " ... edited by Anthony Alofsin ... published by the University of California Press, Berkeley ... in English only ... 1999 Hardcover in Dustjacket ... Brand New Gift Giving quality ... still sealed in original publisher's shrinkwrap ... ***. New/New .
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