Letters to Architects presents letters addressed to architects
practicing throughout the world, many of them contemporaries with
Frank Lloyd Wright during the first half of the twentieth century.
Taken as a whole, this selection of letters aims at revealing an
underlying unity of purpose: the growth of his work and the
unquestionable magnitude of influence it engendered in the world of
architecture. The letters are organized into five sections. Section
One presents the first publication ever to be made of the letters
between Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis H. Sullivan. Section Two traces
Wright's concern, through letters addressed to both European and
American architects, that his work be understood as the cornerstone of
an American Culture. In Section Three, correspondence has been
selected to include three specific persons: Henry-Russell Hitchcock,
Lewis Mumford, and Howard Myers. These men offered Wright a special
forum from which he could speak to the profession as a whole, most
particularly through the medium of publication. Section Four narrates,
by means of letters to various architects concerned with the
assembling and exhibition of the largest one man architectural
exhibition ever to be produced, the details, trials, problems, and
results of such a large undertaking. Section Five recounts the honors
bestowed on Frank Lloyd Wright first in England, in 1941, and then in
his own country, in 1949. It shows his concern for the profession of
architecture in the moving address he gave at the occasion of his
receiving the Gold Medal from the American Institute of Architects.
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ISBN
9781483135373
Publisert
2016
Utgave
2. utgave
Utgiver
Elsevier S & T
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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