Modern Architecture: Being the Kahn Lectures for 1930 - Hardcover

Frank Lloyd Wright (author)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0809313987 ISBN 13: 9780809313983

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press, 1987

Synopsis

A careful reproduction of the 1931 Princeton University Press edition, including seven fine-screened black-and-white photographs on heavy coated paper of archival quality to preserve the finest detail. The Wright designed cover is treated with a protective coating to ensure that Wright’s subtle colors are protected from damage by abrasion or deterioration from extended exposure to sunlight.

 

This book is one of the earliest statements by Wright of the principles of design that were to guide his entire career. Wright described this book in a 1931 letter as “my Garden.” In these lectures are found not forms but fire, not formulas but ideas, not formality but vitality. They are not merely a monument to Wright’s work up to that time, but ideas that continue to bear fruit today.

 

As E. Baldwin Smith writes in his preface, “[The lectures] are the sermons of an engaging, self-confident and enthusiastic artist fired with a faith, not in the machine itself, but in the power of man to master his creation, the machine, and to make it fashion a new manifestation of beauty.” He went on to prophesy that as Wright sought to “give men a new and hopeful outlook on the Machine, his philosophy of life, with his reactions, ideas and prejudices, will become a document in the history of art.” This fine new edition admirably fulfills that vision.

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"[These lectures] are the sermons of an engaging, self-confident, and enthusiastic artist fired with a faith, not in the machine itself, but in the power of man to master his creation, the machine, and to make it fashion a new manifestation of beauty." --E. Baldwin Smith [These lectures] are the sermons of an engaging, self-confident, and enthusiastic artist fired with a faith, not in the machine itself, but in the power of man to master his creation, the machine, and to make it fashion a new manifestation of beauty. E. Baldwin Smith"

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).

Edition details

• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0809313987
• ISBN 13: 9780809313983
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 132