Frank Lloyd Wright. Five Approaches.
Parenthesis| N° d'inventaire | 22424 |
| Format | 17.5 x 24 |
| Détails | 316 p., paperback with flaps. |
| Publication | Marseille, 2020 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782863643389 |
A giant of 20th-century architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright was an extraordinary figure throughout his career who, to the very end, refused to accept limits—of space, matter, and time. His work, punctuated by distinct "periods" and fueled by continual renewal, has not ceased to seduce, question, and inspire. This is true of the author of this book, the second of which he devotes to the American "master." Moving away from a monographic perspective, he offers here a sensitive analysis in five approaches, like so many facets of a mirror held up, from one century to the next, to this immense architect, his drawings, his writings, his life, his utopias. A mirror that reflects an image of Wright that is both less well-known and, surprisingly, more familiar. From California to the Arizona desert, from architectural icons to confidential projects, we discover a man who, until his 90th birthday, was exceptionally modern, seeking to be ever more in tune with the living, the "organic" and the Earth, of which he said he was the emissary. A Frank Lloyd Wright whose life led him to think big and see far: far to us, to whom he still has something to say.
A giant of 20th-century architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright was an extraordinary figure throughout his career who, to the very end, refused to accept limits—of space, matter, and time. His work, punctuated by distinct "periods" and fueled by continual renewal, has not ceased to seduce, question, and inspire. This is true of the author of this book, the second of which he devotes to the American "master." Moving away from a monographic perspective, he offers here a sensitive analysis in five approaches, like so many facets of a mirror held up, from one century to the next, to this immense architect, his drawings, his writings, his life, his utopias. A mirror that reflects an image of Wright that is both less well-known and, surprisingly, more familiar. From California to the Arizona desert, from architectural icons to confidential projects, we discover a man who, until his 90th birthday, was exceptionally modern, seeking to be ever more in tune with the living, the "organic" and the Earth, of which he said he was the emissary. A Frank Lloyd Wright whose life led him to think big and see far: far to us, to whom he still has something to say.