Travels with Frank Lloyd Wright

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The first Global Architect

Gwyn Lloyd Jones

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Lund Humphries
15 April 2017

Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960; Architecture; Individual architects & architectural firms; History of architecture

Frank Lloyd Wright is known as the architect of an enduring modern American vision, but was himself extremely well-travelled, with journeys to far-flung corners of the world serving as opportunities to develop and promote his globalising ‘organic’ philosophy. Visits to Japan and Germany informed his Prairie House period, his Usonian manifesto was presented in Russia and the UK, and later he spent time in Italy and the Middle East during his Legacy period.

Gwyn Lloyd Jones retraces Lloyd Wright’s footsteps in a fascinating globetrotting narrative that reveals Lloyd Wright’s architectural legacy as having emerged from what was, at the time, a newly globalised era of architectural production. Along the way the author meets the people who are living with and experiencing Lloyd Wright’s ‘organic’ architecture today and asks whether the buildings remain true to Lloyd Wright’s intent and what it is that makes them unique.

Beautifully illustrated with Lloyd Wright’s own sketches and photographs, as well as historical photographs of his original journeys and designs, this book offers an original and contemporary view of the ambitions and lasting legacy of the first ‘global architect’.

By: Gwyn Lloyd Jones
Imprint: Lund Humphries
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm,
ISBN: 9781848222267
ISBN 10: 1848222262
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 15 April 2017
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction; Chapter 1. Japan: Unusual Views of Outstanding Sites; Chapter 2. Germany: Vanity Fair; Chapter 3. Russia: Egor'evsk Cultural Club; Chapter 4. United Kingdom: Engaging with Social Justice; Chapter 5. Italy: Cross-cultural Dialogues; Chapter 6. Middle East: Arabian Fantasies

Dr Gwyn Lloyd Jones is an architect at Studio Egret West in London. He was the inaugral winner of the RIBA President's Dissertation Medal, has been awarded the Giles Worsley Travel Fellowship to the British School in Rome and has written and presented a television programme on Frank Lloyd Wright for Welsh Channel 4.

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Travels with Frank Lloyd Wright

The first Global Architect

Gwyn Lloyd Jones

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