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Author Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.

Title The essential Frank Lloyd Wright : critical writings on architecture / Frank Lloyd Wright ; edited by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer.

Publication Info. Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2008]
©2008

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Location Call No. Status
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  720 WRIGHT    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  720.973 W949WR    Check Shelf
Description vi, 453 pages : illustrations, plans ; 27 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Pt. 1. The art and craft of the machine -- Ausgefuhrte Bauten und Entwurfe von Frank Lloyd Wright -- The Japanese print: an interpretation -- Louis Henry Sullivan: his work -- In the cause of architecture: The third dimension; The architect and the machine; Standardization, the soul of the machine; Steel; Fabrication and imagination; The new world; The logic of the plan; What "styles" mean to the architect; The meaning of materials: stone, wood, the kiln, glass, concrete; Sheet metal and modern instance; Terms -- Pt. 2. Modern architecture, being the Kahn lectures (Princeton) -- Two lectures on architecture (Art Institute of Chicago) -- The disappearing city -- Architecture and modern life: some aspects of the past and present of architecture -- "The architectural forum" -- Pt. 3. The natural house -- A testament.
Subject Architecture as Topic.
Added Author Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks.
Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.
ISBN 9780691133188 hardcover alkaline paper
0691133182 hardcover alkaline paper
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