Modern Architecture: Being the Kahn Lectures for 1930

Wright, Frank Lloyd

ISBN 10: 0809313987 / ISBN 13: 9780809313983

Published by Southern Illinois University Pre, 1987

About this Item

No dust jacket. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Oversized.

Seller Inventory # mon0000305381

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Modern Architecture: Being the Kahn Lectures for 1930
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Pre
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0809313987
• ISBN 13: 9780809313983
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

A careful reproduction of the 1931 Princeton University Press edition, including seven fine-screened black-and-white photographs on heavy coated paper of archival quality to preserve the finest detail. The Wright designed cover is treated with a protective coating to ensure that Wright’s subtle colors are protected from damage by abrasion or deterioration from extended exposure to sunlight.

This book is one of the earliest statements by Wright of the principles of design that were to guide his entire career. Wright described this book in a 1931 letter as “my Garden.” In these lectures are found not forms but fire, not formulas but ideas, not formality but vitality. They are not merely a monument to Wright’s work up to that time, but ideas that continue to bear fruit today.

As E. Baldwin Smith writes in his preface, “[The lectures] are the sermons of an engaging, self-confident and enthusiastic artist fired with a faith, not in the machine itself, but in the power of man to master his creation, the machine, and to make it fashion a new manifestation of beauty.” He went on to prophesy that as Wright sought to “give men a new and hopeful outlook on the Machine, his philosophy of life, with his reactions, ideas and prejudices, will become a document in the history of art.” This fine new edition admirably fulfills that vision.

About the Author

Neil Levine, the Emmet Blakeney Gleason Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University, is the author of The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright (Princeton).