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Frank Lloyd Wright: Second and Updated Edition Contributor(s): Treiber, Daniel (Author)
Frank Lloyd Wright: Second and Updated Edition Contributor(s): Treiber, Daniel (Author)
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Frank Lloyd Wright: Second and Updated Edition
Contributor(s): Treiber, Daniel (Author)
US SRP: $35.00 US
Binding: Hardcover
Copyright Date: 2008
Pub Date: March 26, 2008
Physical Info: 0.9" H x 9.7" L x 8.7" W (2.4 lbs) 192 pages
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) had a shaping influence on the architecture of our time throughout the world as only very few other architects besides him. His structures-developed from landscape, function, material, and construction- are highly individual and independent of the stylistic developments of modern architecture. This book highlights the fundamental aspects of this charismatic architects work that are relevant from a contemporary perspective: his redefining of the house and urban development, the effect of order and discovery in his designs, the poetic force of his buildings and, lastly, their cultural permeation seen, for instance, in Japanese influences.
Daniel Treiber has been teaching design and architectural history for twenty-five years. Since 2002 he has done so in the context of a Design Chair at the École d'architecture in Lille. He is also the director of the advisory board for the na
