Home » Books » Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography

Download Frank Lloyd Wright
A Biography (Epub & Pdf)

Overview :

Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography by Meryle Secrest Details

The biographer of Bernard Berenson and Kenneth Clarke now gives us a complete and complex picture of an American giant, Frank Lloyd Wright. Meryle Secrest shows us Frank Lloyd Wright…

Frank Lloyd Wright synopsis

The biographer of Bernard Berenson and Kenneth Clarke now gives us a complete and complex picture of an American giant, Frank Lloyd Wright. Meryle Secrest shows us Frank Lloyd Wright wide - the wonderful, obscene, charming man. The giant has changed modern architecture.

Who has never abandoned the principles of design, during a seventy-year career; radical, bohemian - the insight that was one of the central figures of 20th century culture, society and society. We see the Frank Frank Lloyd Wright boy in the middle of the West - the son of a preacher / musician she holds a doctorate at Harvard University ...

He has been practicing for seven years with Louis Sullivan the Great ... in his three marriages - the first at twenty-one to Chicago Women's society and naughty wife; second to a somewhat mad woman; and third to a severely independent woman: a musician from Gurdjieff, a dancer, a woman who was peer and Wright. We see Wright's evolution from an elegant young architect, living in the right suburb, cultivating wealthy clients, into a real bohemian life with his own rules.

Meryle Secrest follows the course of Wright's struggle against everything that was central to America - his opposition to the architectural trend that resulted in "houses resembling the sarcophagus and naked towers" and his insistence on expressing the uniqueness of human experience. We see Wright creating his famous and seminal homes, including the Winslow house he designed at the age of 27.

His long dream of Talisin (when he was burned on the ground, set fire by a madman, Wright rebuilt it in the same place) ... ImperialHotel in Tokyo (the only building that was standing after the 1923 earthquake) ...

The famous Fallingwater ... Giant Guggenheim Museum and incarnated in New York ...

Meryle Secrest is the first biographer to access the full archive of Frank Lloyd Wright. Her life is from an archite



Please don't review this Book if you received a freebie for writing this review, or if you're connected in any way to the owner.