Wright and New York: The Making of America's Architect by Alofsin, Anthony
Wright and New York: The Making of America's Architect by Alofsin, Anthony

Wright and New York: The Making of America's Architect

A dazzling dual portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright and early twentieth-century New York, revealing the city's role...
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Wright and New York: The Making of America's Architect by Alofsin, Anthony

Wright and New York: The Making of America's Architect

$147.23
Wright and New York: The Making of America's Architect by Alofsin, Anthony

Wright and New York: The Making of America's Architect

$147.23
Author: Anthony Alofsin
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
A dazzling dual portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright and early twentieth-century New York, revealing the city's role in establishing the career of America's most famous architect

"Traces the transitive relationship of the architect and the city, as well as the genesis of the bohemian culture of the East Village."--Patti Smith, New York Times

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) took his first major trip to New York in 1909, fleeing a failed marriage and artistic stagnation. He returned a decade later, his personal life and architectural career again in crisis. Booming 1920s New York served as a refuge, but it also challenged him and resurrected his career. The city connected Wright with important clients and commissions that would harness his creative energy and define his role in modern architecture, even as the stock market crash took its toll on his benefactors.

Wright denounced New York as an "unlivable prison" even as he reveled in its culture. The city became an urban foil for Wright's work in the desert and in the "organic architecture" he promoted as an alternative to American Art Deco and the International Style. New York became a major protagonist at the end of Wright's life, as he spent his final years at the Plaza Hotel working on the Guggenheim Museum, the building that would cement his legacy.

Anthony Alofsin has broken new ground by mining the recently opened Wright archives held by Columbia University and the Museum of Modern Art. His foundational research provides a crucial and innovative understanding of Wright's life, his career, and the conditions that enabled his success. The result is at once a stunning biography and a glittering portrait of early twentieth-century Manhattan.

Author: Anthony Alofsin
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 05/21/2019
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780300238853


Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2019

About the Author
Anthony Alofsin is Roland Roessner Centennial Professor of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin.


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