Frank Lloyd Wright and Midway Gardens - Hardcover

Kruty, Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0252023668 ISBN 13: 9780252023668

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 1998

Synopsis

Built in Chicago in 1914, Frank Lloyd Wright's Midway Gardens was a concert garden that included an indoor restaurant and dance hall, a five-tiered outdoor summer garden with band shell, a tavern, and a private club--a work of art on the grandest scale. Demolished in 1929, Midway Gardens is at the heart of a quintessential American tale, a great hybrid of Old and New World sensibilities, and a monument to the cultural use of buildings. 218 photos.

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Review:

"A meticulously researched and beautifully presented book with a large portfolio of plates... Kruty's own achievement is that by capitalizing on the loss of Midway Gardens and broadening the scope of his reconstruction, so that Chicago and its relation to America's cultural history and European Modernism become almost as important as the architect's genius as explanatory factors, he has put Wright's 'fantasy' back on the map." -- Douglas Tallack, Urban History

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0252023668
• ISBN 13: 9780252023668
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 262