| Search | About | Preferences | Interact | Help | |
| 150 million books. 1 search engine. | ||

› Find signed collectible books: 'Architecture Collection'
More editions of Architecture Collection:

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright'
More editions of The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright:

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright: A Complete Catalog'
More editions of The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright: A Complete Catalog:
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright: A Complete Catalog'
More editions of The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright: A Complete Catalog:

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Decorative Designs of Frank Lloyd Wright'
More editions of The Decorative Designs of Frank Lloyd Wright:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Frank Lloyd Wright: Writings and Buildings'
More editions of Frank Lloyd Wright: Writings and Buildings:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Frank Lloyd Wright: Writings and Buildings'
More editions of Frank Lloyd Wright: Writings and Buildings:

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Future of Architecture'

› Find signed collectible books: 'Genius and the Mobocracy'
More editions of Genius and the Mobocracy:

› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Cause of Architecture: Essays'
More editions of In the Cause of Architecture: Essays:
› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Cause of Architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright: Essays'
More editions of In the Cause of Architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright: Essays:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Letters to Clients'
More editions of Letters to Clients:

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Living City'

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Natural House'
More editions of The Natural House:

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Natural House.'
More editions of The Natural House.:

› Find signed collectible books: 'New Dimensions: The Decorative Arts of Today in Words and Pictures'
More editions of New Dimensions: The Decorative Arts of Today in Words and Pictures:

› Find signed collectible books: 'Northern Ireland: A Comparative Analysis'
More editions of Northern Ireland: A Comparative Analysis:
› Find signed collectible books: 'An Organic Adventure: The Architecture of Democracy'
In May 1939, when London's architecture could only wait helplessly before the coming destruction and man's spiritand spiritual claimswere at a low ebb, Frank Lloyd Wright delivered four talks to some young British architects. In these talks he affirmed his belief in the future with a positive conviction that was reinforced by the derision with which his acidulous wit reacted against the sterilities of the past. Wright on this occasion was as ever the conscious radical jeffersonian whose message resonates with every "younger generation":
At the outset I may as well confess that I have come here with a minority report: an informal Declaration if Independence. Great Britain had one from us, July 4, 1776: a formal Declaration of Independence which concerned taxes; this one, May 2, 1939, concerns the spirit. Am I, then, a rebel, too? Yes. But only a rebel as one who has in his actual work, for a life-timeor is it morebeen carrying out in practice day by day, what he believes to be true.
This book is the verbatim text of those four talks, which a champion of Wright's has called "one of the best statements of his principles and his ideas." The talks, like all of Wright's productions, are free-ranging and spontaneous in inspiration, solid and workmanlike in execution.
In speaking to Londoners at this point in their history and at this point in his own development, Wright is prompted to universalize his concept of organic architecture. Perhaps more than this in his other books, the emphasis shifts from an AmericanUsonianarchitecture growing indigenously from the soil of the American heartland to a more general concept of an architecture than can take root in many landscapes as an honest expression of both the nature of diverse materials and the nature and living needs of diverse populations.
What is architecture anyway? Is it a vast collection of the various buildings which have been built to please the varying tastes of the various lords of mankind? No. I think not. I know that architecture is life; or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore is the truest record of life as it was lives in the world yesterday, as it is being lived today or ever will be lived. So architecture I know to be a great spirit. No, it is not something that consists of the buildings which have been built by man on his Earth. Architecture is that great living creative spirit which from generation to generation, from age to age, proceeds, persists, creates, according to the nature of man, and his circumstances as they both change. That really is architecture.
Three of the talks open with Wright's narration of films showing examples of his recent work and life with his apprentices at the Taliesins. Here Wright is at his informal best, and the visual references are supplied in the book by the photographs of finished buildings, models, and plans at the end of the volume, dating from projects of the 1930s and roughly paralleling the content of the films. A bibliography and a list of buildings and projected works through 1939 round out the volume. [via]
More editions of An Organic Adventure: The Architecture of Democracy:

› Find signed collectible books: 'An Organic Architecture: The Architecture of Democracy'
More editions of An Organic Architecture: The Architecture of Democracy:

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Plan for Restoration and Adaptive Use of the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio'
More editions of The Plan for Restoration and Adaptive Use of the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio:

› Find signed collectible books: 'The Robie House of Frank Lloyd Wright'
More editions of The Robie House of Frank Lloyd Wright:
› Find signed collectible books: 'Truth Against the World: Frank Lloyd Wright Speaks for an Organic Architecture'
Truth Against the World offers a singular portrait of Frank Lloyd Wrightthe master architect, and perhaps Americas most famous architect, as public speaker. It was a role Wright often disdained but which he also obviously enjoyed. Including thoughtful analysis with introductions by editor Patrick J. Meehan, AIA, Truth Against the World provides the first comprehensive, single-volume collection of Wrights most important speeches during his 70-year career to diverse audienceshigh school and college students, architects, engineers, business executives, and society matrons. Topics covered by the 32 presentations include Wrights thoughts on Beaux Arts architecture and the Columbian World Exposition of 1893, organic architecture, prefabricated housing, hospital design, the use of the machine in design, and contemporary society, among many others. [via]
More editions of Truth Against the World: Frank Lloyd Wright Speaks for an Organic Architecture:
Founded in 1997, BookFinder.com has become a leading book price comparison site:
Find and compare hundreds of millions of new books, used books, rare books and out of print books from over 100,000 booksellers and 60+ websites worldwide.
