{"product_id":"the-architecture-of-frank-lloyd-wright-9780691033716","title":"The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright","description":"\u003cp\u003eNeil Levines study of the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright  beginning with his work in Oak Park in the late 1880s and culminating in the construction of the Guggenheim museum in New York and the Marin County Civic Center in the 1950s  if the first comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the architects entire career since the opening of the Wright Archives over a decade ago. The most celebrated and prolific of modern architects  Wright built more than four hundred buildings and designed at least twice as many more. The characteristic features of his work--the open plan  dynamic space  fragmented volumes  natural materials  and integral structure--established the basic way that we think about modern architecture. For a general audience  this engaging book provides an introduction to Wrights remarkable accomplishments  as seen against the background of his eventful and often tragic life. For the architect or the architectural historian  it will be an important source of new insights into the development of Wrights whole body of work. It integrates biographical and historical material in a chronologically ordered framework that makes sense of his enormously varied career  and it provides over four hundred illustrations running parallel to the text.  Levine conveys the meanings of the continuities and changes that he sees I Wrights architecture and thought by focusing successive chapters on his most significant buildings  such as the Winslow House  Taliesin  Hollyhock House  Fallingwater  Tailsen west  and the Guggenheim Museum. A new understanding of the representational imagery and narrative structure of Wrights work  along with a much-needed reconsideration of its historical and contextual underpinnings  gives this study a unique place in the writings on Wright. In contrast to the emphasis a previous generation of critics and historians placed on Wrights earlier buildings  this book offers a broader perspective that sees Wrights later work as the culmination of his earlier efforts and the basis for a new understanding of the centrality of his career to the evolution of modern architecture as a whole.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45652333822005,"sku":"ByrdShop_0691033714","price":293.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780691033716.jpg?v=1781851196","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-architecture-of-frank-lloyd-wright-9780691033716","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}