TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wright,Frank Lloyd
AU  - Levine,Neil
AU  - Smith,E.Baldwin
TI  - Modern Architecture: Being the Kahn Lectures for 1930 
SN  - 9780691232539
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - ARCHITECTURE / Criticism
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Acceleration
KW  - Ad libitum
KW  - Architectural Record
KW  - Chrysanthemum
KW  - Construction
KW  - Corniceconscious
KW  - Daily Princetonian
KW  - Holländische Architektur
KW  - Horizontal Gothic
KW  - Modern Architecture
KW  - New Republic
KW  - New School
KW  - Organic simplicity
KW  - Renaissance
KW  - The Disappearing City
KW  - Tradition
KW  - Usonians
KW  - Wendingen
KW  - ad nauseam
KW  - aluminum
KW  - blazing
KW  - cardboard surface
KW  - ceremonial
KW  - civilization
KW  - contain
KW  - creative sense
KW  - demonstrate
KW  - dimensions
KW  - enfolding
KW  - extinguish
KW  - fashion
KW  - head-made
KW  - heartfelt
KW  - hypodermically
KW  - individuality
KW  - integral
KW  - intercommunication
KW  - masonry running
KW  - mechanical
KW  - modernistic
KW  - municipality
KW  - ornamental
KW  - pictorial
KW  - plastic
KW  - preliminary amble
KW  - quantitative
KW  - real shelter
KW  - rubble-stone
KW  - scenepainting
KW  - ubiquitous publicity
KW  - urbanisme
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; INTRODUCTION --; PREFACE --; 1: MACHINERY, MATERIALS AND MEN --; 2: STYLE IN INDUSTRY --; 3: THE PASSING OF THE CORNICE --; 4: THE CARDBOARD HOUSE --; 5: THE TYRANNY OF THE SKYSCRAPER --; 6: THE CITY; restricted access
N2  - Modern Architecture is a landmark text--the first book in which America's greatest architect put forth the principles of a fundamentally new, organic architecture that would reject the trappings of historical styles while avoiding the geometric abstraction of the machine aesthetic advocated by contemporary European modernists. One of the most important documents in the development of modern architecture and the career of Frank Lloyd Wright, Modern Architecture is a provocative and profound polemic against America's architectural eclecticism, commercial skyscrapers, and misguided urban planning. The book is also a work of savvy self-promotion, in which Wright not only advanced his own concept of an organic architecture but also framed it as having anticipated by decades--and bettered--what he saw as the reductive modernism of his European counterparts. Based on the 1931 original, for which Wright supplied the cover illustration, this beautiful edition includes a new introduction that puts Modern Architecture in its broader architectural, historical, and intellectual context for the first time. The subjects of these lively lectures--from "Machinery, Materials and Men" to "The Tyranny of the Skyscraper" and "The City"--move from a general statement of the conditions of modern culture to particular applications in the fields of architecture and urbanism at ever broadening scales. Wright's vision in Modern Architecture is ultimately to equate the truly modern with romanticism, imagination, beauty, and nature--all of which he connects with an underlying sense of American democratic freedom and individualism
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691232539?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691232539
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691232539/original
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