Items related to Modern Architecture – Being the Kahn Lectures...

Modern Architecture – Being the Kahn Lectures for 1930 - Hardcover

 
9780691129372: Modern Architecture – Being the Kahn Lectures for 1930

Synopsis

Modern Architecture is a landmark text--the first book in which America's greatest architect put forth the principles of a fundamentally new, organic architecture that would reject the trappings of historical styles while avoiding the geometric abstraction of the machine aesthetic advocated by contemporary European modernists. One of the most important documents in the development of modern architecture and the career of Frank Lloyd Wright, Modern Architecture is a provocative and profound polemic against America's architectural eclecticism, commercial skyscrapers, and misguided urban planning. The book is also a work of savvy self-promotion, in which Wright not only advanced his own concept of an organic architecture but also framed it as having anticipated by decades--and bettered--what he saw as the reductive modernism of his European counterparts. Based on the 1931 original, for which Wright supplied the cover illustration, this beautiful edition includes a new introduction that puts Modern Architecture in its broader architectural, historical, and intellectual context for the first time. The subjects of these lively lectures--from "Machinery, Materials and Men" to "The Tyranny of the Skyscraper" and "The City"--move from a general statement of the conditions of modern culture to particular applications in the fields of architecture and urbanism at ever broadening scales. Wright's vision in Modern Architecture is ultimately to equate the truly modern with romanticism, imagination, beauty, and nature--all of which he connects with an underlying sense of American democratic freedom and individualism.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author

Neil Levine, the Emmet Blakeney Gleason Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University, is the author of "The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright" (Princeton).

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Buy Used

Condition: As New
Unread book in perfect condition...
View this item

FREE shipping within United Kingdom

Destination, rates & speeds

Other Popular Editions of the Same Title

9780809313983: Modern Architecture: Being the Kahn Lectures for 1930

Featured Edition

ISBN 10:  0809313987 ISBN 13:  9780809313983
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press, 1987
Hardcover

Search results for Modern Architecture – Being the Kahn Lectures...

Seller Image

Wright, Frank Lloyd; Levine, Neil (INT)
Published by Princeton University Press, 2008
ISBN 10: 0691129371 ISBN 13: 9780691129372
Used Hardcover

Seller: GreatBookPricesUK, Woodford Green, United Kingdom

Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars 5-star rating, Learn more about seller ratings

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition. Seller Inventory # 4224722

Contact seller

Buy Used

£ 24.61
Convert currency
Shipping: FREE
Within United Kingdom
Destination, rates & speeds

Quantity: 2 available

Add to basket

Seller Image

Wright, Frank Lloyd; Levine, Neil (INT)
Published by Princeton University Press, 2008
ISBN 10: 0691129371 ISBN 13: 9780691129372
New Hardcover

Seller: GreatBookPricesUK, Woodford Green, United Kingdom

Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars 5-star rating, Learn more about seller ratings

Condition: New. Seller Inventory # 4224722-n

Contact seller

Buy New

£ 24.68
Convert currency
Shipping: FREE
Within United Kingdom
Destination, rates & speeds

Quantity: 2 available

Add to basket

Stock Image

Frank Lloyd Wright
Published by Princeton University Press, 2008
ISBN 10: 0691129371 ISBN 13: 9780691129372
New Hardcover

Seller: THE SAINT BOOKSTORE, Southport, United Kingdom

Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars 5-star rating, Learn more about seller ratings

Hardback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. 799. Seller Inventory # B9780691129372

Contact seller

Buy New

£ 24.69
Convert currency
Shipping: FREE
Within United Kingdom
Destination, rates & speeds

Quantity: 3 available

Add to basket

Stock Image

Frank Lloyd Wright
Published by Princeton University Press, 2008
ISBN 10: 0691129371 ISBN 13: 9780691129372
New Hardcover

Seller: PBShop.store UK, Fairford, GLOS, United Kingdom

Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars 5-star rating, Learn more about seller ratings

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000. Seller Inventory # WP-9780691129372

Contact seller

Buy New

£ 24.70
Convert currency
Shipping: FREE
Within United Kingdom
Destination, rates & speeds

Quantity: 3 available

Add to basket

Stock Image

Wright, Frank Lloyd
Published by Princeton University Press, 2008
ISBN 10: 0691129371 ISBN 13: 9780691129372
New Hardcover

Seller: Ria Christie Collections, Uxbridge, United Kingdom

Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars 5-star rating, Learn more about seller ratings

Condition: New. In. Seller Inventory # ria9780691129372_new

Contact seller

Buy New

£ 26.02
Convert currency
Shipping: FREE
Within United Kingdom
Destination, rates & speeds

Quantity: Over 20 available

Add to basket

Seller Image

Frank Lloyd Wright
Published by Princeton University Press, US, 2008
ISBN 10: 0691129371 ISBN 13: 9780691129372
New Hardcover

Seller: Rarewaves USA United, OSWEGO, IL, U.S.A.

Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars 5-star rating, Learn more about seller ratings

Hardback. Condition: New. Modern Architecture is a landmark text--the first book in which America's greatest architect put forth the principles of a fundamentally new, organic architecture that would reject the trappings of historical styles while avoiding the geometric abstraction of the machine aesthetic advocated by contemporary European modernists. One of the most important documents in the development of modern architecture and the career of Frank Lloyd Wright, Modern Architecture is a provocative and profound polemic against America's architectural eclecticism, commercial skyscrapers, and misguided urban planning. The book is also a work of savvy self-promotion, in which Wright not only advanced his own concept of an organic architecture but also framed it as having anticipated by decades--and bettered--what he saw as the reductive modernism of his European counterparts. Based on the 1931 original, for which Wright supplied the cover illustration, this beautiful edition includes a new introduction that puts Modern Architecture in its broader architectural, historical, and intellectual context for the first time.The subjects of these lively lectures--from "Machinery, Materials and Men" to "The Tyranny of the Skyscraper" and "The City"--move from a general statement of the conditions of modern culture to particular applications in the fields of architecture and urbanism at ever broadening scales. Wright's vision in Modern Architecture is ultimately to equate the truly modern with romanticism, imagination, beauty, and nature--all of which he connects with an underlying sense of American democratic freedom and individualism. Seller Inventory # LU-9780691129372

Contact seller

Buy New

£ 27.30
Convert currency
Shipping: FREE
From U.S.A. to United Kingdom
Destination, rates & speeds

Quantity: Over 20 available

Add to basket

Stock Image

Frank Lloyd Wright
Published by Princeton University Press, 2008
ISBN 10: 0691129371 ISBN 13: 9780691129372
New Hardcover

Seller: PBShop.store US, Wood Dale, IL, U.S.A.

Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars 5-star rating, Learn more about seller ratings

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000. Seller Inventory # WP-9780691129372

Contact seller

Buy New

£ 27.36
Convert currency
Shipping: FREE
From U.S.A. to United Kingdom
Destination, rates & speeds

Quantity: 3 available

Add to basket

Stock Image

Frank LLoyd Wright
Published by Princeton University Press, 2008
ISBN 10: 0691129371 ISBN 13: 9780691129372
New Hardcover

Seller: Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.

Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars 5-star rating, Learn more about seller ratings

Condition: New. 2008. hardcover. New. Seller Inventory # P013126

Contact seller

Buy New

£ 16.65
Convert currency
Shipping: £ 12.98
From U.S.A. to United Kingdom
Destination, rates & speeds

Quantity: 13 available

Add to basket

Stock Image

Wright Frank Lloyd
Published by Princeton University Press, 2008
ISBN 10: 0691129371 ISBN 13: 9780691129372
New Hardcover

Seller: Majestic Books, Hounslow, United Kingdom

Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars 5-star rating, Learn more about seller ratings

Condition: New. pp. lxxv + 114 Illus. Seller Inventory # 8064485

Contact seller

Buy New

£ 26.53
Convert currency
Shipping: £ 3.35
Within United Kingdom
Destination, rates & speeds

Quantity: 1 available

Add to basket

Stock Image

Wright
Published by Princeton University Press, 2008
ISBN 10: 0691129371 ISBN 13: 9780691129372
New Hardcover

Seller: Basi6 International, Irving, TX, U.S.A.

Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars 5-star rating, Learn more about seller ratings

Condition: Brand New. New. US edition. Expediting shipping for all USA and Europe orders excluding PO Box. Excellent Customer Service. Seller Inventory # ABEOCT25-107244

Contact seller

Buy New

£ 29.90
Convert currency
Shipping: FREE
From U.S.A. to United Kingdom
Destination, rates & speeds

Quantity: 3 available

Add to basket

There are 18 more copies of this book

View all search results for this book