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Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), le celebre architecte et theoricien de l'architecture organique, et l'historien et critique Lewis Mumford (1895-1990) ont joue un role crucial dans l'histoire de l'architecture et de l'urbanisme, comme en temoignent les quelque cent cinquante lettres qu'ils ont echangees de 1926 a 1959. Cette correspondance passionnante, clairvoyante et spirituelle, mais non depourvue de tensions, illustre a merveille le debat intellectuel sur l'architecture americaine et internationale du xxe siecle. C'est l'architecte, alors age de presque soixante ans et dans une phase difficile au milieu de sa carriere, qui prend l'initiative d'ecrire au jeune critique newyorkais, tout juste trentenaire, pour le remercier de son soutien. Toujours au fait de l'evolution contemporaine de l'architecture, les deux hommes evoquent, au fil du temps, leurs oeuvres respectives, leurs allies et leurs adversaires, l'avenement du Style international et les evenements politiques qui bouleversent l'Europe et les Etats-Unis. Ils s'opposent a la severe orthodoxie de modernistes comme Le Corbusier et pronent tous deux un meilleur usage de l'architecture et de la technologie au profit de l'humanite et de l'environnement, un point de vue qui faisait presque exception dans le panorama architectural de l'entredeux-guerres. Affectueux et elogieux, Wright tient a l'approbation de Mumford et aspire a un rapport plus etroit. Plus prudent, souhaitant conserver son independance en tant que critique, Mumford refuse les multiples invitations de Wright a lui rendre visite dans son domaine de Taliesin, mais il n'en admire pas moins l'oeuvre de l'architecte qui l'inspire. La Seconde Guerre mondiale interrompt brutalement cet echange profond et fecond, Mumford etant partisan de l'intervention des Etats-Unis en Europe, et Wright pacifiste et protectionniste. La correspondance ne reprendra que dix ans plus tard, a l'initiative de Wright. Une fois reconcilies, malgre leurs desaccords politiques et esthetiques, ces deux geants de la culture americaine, a la fois conservateurs et iconoclastes, multiplient les temoignages d'affection et d'admiration.

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Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer est un ancien élève de Frank Lloyd Wright. Auteur de nombreux ouvrages sur la vie et l’oeuvre de FLW, il est aujourd’hui directeur des archives, conservateur et vice-président de la Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.  Robert Wojtowicz a étudié l’histoire de l’art et s’est spécialisé dans la civilisation américaine. Il est professeur d’histoire de l’art et doyen associé de la recherche et des études supérieures du College of Arts and Letters de l’université Old Dominion, à Norfolk. Exécuteur littéraire du fonds Lewis et Sophia Mumford, il est l’auteur de Lewis Mumford and American Modernism : Eutopian Theories for Architecture and Urban Planning (1996). Lucien d’Azay, romancier, essayiste et traducteur de l’anglais et de l’italien est l’auteur d’une quinzaine de livres dont Trois excentriques anglais (2011) et de Keats, keepsake (2014) aux éditions Les Belles Lettres, ainsi que de Sur les chemins de Palmyre (La Table Ronde, 2012) et du Dictionnaire insolite de Florence (Cosmopole, 2015).

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