This is the first book devoted to Frank Lloyd Wright's designs for remaking the modern city. Stunningly comprehensive, The Urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright presents a radically new interpretation of the architect’s work and offers new and important perspectives on the history of modernism. Neil Levine places Wright’s projects, produced over more than fifty years, within their historical, cultural, and physical contexts, while relating them to the theory and practice of urbanism as it evolved over the twentieth century.
Levine overturns the conventional view of Wright as an architect who deplored the city and whose urban vision was limited to a utopian plan for a network of agrarian communities he called Broadacre City. Rather, Levine reveals Wright’s larger, more varied, interesting, and complex urbanism, demonstrated across the span of his lengthy career. Beginning with Wright’s plans from the late 1890s through the early 1910s for reforming residential urban neighborhoods, mainly in Chicago, and continuing through projects from the 1920s through the 1950s for commercial, mixed-use, civic, and cultural centers for Chicago, Madison, Washington, Pittsburgh, and Baghdad, Levine demonstrates Wright’s place among the leading contributors to the creation of the modern city. Wright’s often spectacular designs are shown to be those of an innovative precursor and creative participant in the world of ideas that shaped the modern metropolis.
Lavishly illustrated with drawings, plans, maps, and photographs, this book features the first extensive new photography of materials from the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives. The Urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright will serve as one of the most important books on the architect for years to come.
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"Neil Levine charts new territory by showing convincingly that far from being an antiurbanist, as many have assumed, Frank Lloyd Wright was instead a leading contributor to twentieth-century urbanism. An original work of superb scholarship, this book significantly expands our knowledge of Wright."--David G. De Long, University of Pennsylvania
"Neil Levine makes a brilliant and original case for urbanism as a lifelong and integral part of Frank Lloyd Wright's genius. Scholarship at its highest level, this book will significantly revise our view of Wright and perhaps twentieth-century urbanism as well."--Robert Fishman, University of Michigan
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Descrizione libro gebunden. Condizione: Neu. Neu -Dies ist das erste Buch, das sich mit Frank Lloyd Wrights Entwürfen zur Neugestaltung der modernen Stadt beschäftigt. The »Urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright« präsentiert eine radikal neue Interpretation des Werks des Architekten und bietet neue und wichtige Perspektiven für die Geschichte der Moderne. Neil Levine ordnet Wrights Projekte, die über mehr als fünfzig Jahre hinweg entstanden sind, in ihren historischen, kulturellen und physischen Kontext ein und setzt sie in Beziehung zur Theorie und Praxis des Urbanismus, wie er sich im Laufe des 20. Jahrhunderts entwickelt hat. Levine widerlegt die konventionelle Sichtweise auf Wright als einen Architekten, der die Stadt verachtete und dessen städtebauliche Vision sich auf einen utopischen Plan für ein Netzwerk von Agrarsiedlungen beschränkte, das er Broadacre City nannte. Levine zeigt vielmehr Wrights umfassenderen, vielfältigen und komplexeren Urbanismus, der sich über die gesamte Dauer seiner langen Karriere erstreckt. Beginnend mit Wrights Plänen aus den späten 1890er bis zu den frühen 1910er Jahren für die Neugestaltung städtischer Wohnviertel, vor allem in Chicago, und weiterführend über Projekte aus den 1920er bis zu den 1950er Jahren für kommerzielle, gemischt genutzte, bürgerliche und kulturelle Zentren für Chicago, Madison, Washington, Pittsburgh und Bagdad, zeigt Levine, dass Wright zu den führenden Akteuren bei der Schaffung der modernen Stadt gehört. Dieses Buch ist reich mit Zeichnungen, Plänen, Karten und Fotografien illustriert und enthält neue Fotografie von Materialien aus dem Archiv der Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. (Text engl.)\\nErscheinungsdatum: 27.11.2015 Schlagwörter: urban studies, architecture Autor: Neil Levine Sachgruppen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik, Kunst, Architektur Anzahl Seiten: 464 Format: 29,00 x 25,00 x 4,00 cm 464 pp. Englisch. Codice articolo 1457209
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