The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright

Description

In this work, Neil Levine seeks to redefine the readers' understanding of Frank Lloyd Wright in a comprehensive analysis of the architect's career since the opening of the Wright Archives. Making use of the architect's drawings, notes, writings, and personal and professional correspondence, the author weaves together historical and biographical material in a carefully documented, chronologically ordered framework that gives fresh meaning and relevance to Wright's varied production.

Neil Levine teaches the history of modern architecture at Harvard University, where he is the Emmet Blakeney Gleason Professor of Fine Arts. He has been the Banister Fletcher Professor of Architecture at the University of London and the Slade Professor of Fine Art at Cambridge University. He is on the editorial board of the journal Wright Studies and was on the advisory board of an upcoming PBS documentary series on Wright. He is also on the Board of Directors of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy.

Winner of the 1997 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Architecture and Urban Planning, Association of American Publishers One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1996 "Scrupulously researched, elegantly written (with a refreshing lack of jargon), beautifully illustrated and designed ... the book is a feast for eye and mind, challenging assumptions and deepening understanding on almost every page... Wright's ability to translate the poetic essence of a place into form was unrivaled, and no one has explored it with more insight than Levine."--The Architects' Journal "A major publication, a benchmark study not only of Wright's career but of architectural history as well... A magnum opus by one of the most highly regarded architectural historians of our day."--Choice "He [Wright] created beauty, a serene beauty of space--new, undemocratic and unapologetic--a beauty springing from the deepest resonance of man and nature. The strength of Levine's book is that he explains exactly how and why he did it, with a wealth of illustration."--Joe Berridge, Toronto Globe & Mail "A monumental project... This book, rather than any extant Wright biography, is the source for those who want to know about the immensity and worth of the accomplishments of Frank Lloyd Wright."--Library Journal "Wright's personal history was extraordinary by any standards, and it is the great strength of Neil Levine's book that he manages to correlate the developments in Wright's architecture with the events in his life, without being sentimental or over-reverent."--Andrew Ballantyne, The Times Literary Supplement