Category｜洋書
Language｜英語
Contents｜フランク・ロイド・ライト写真集
Author｜Naomi Stungo
Publisher｜Periplus Editions
Publication date｜1999
Type｜ハードカバー
Pages｜80
Size｜165×225×14
Weight｜
Price｜ME-999-（175）-999-20211228
Never has an architect combined genius and infamy with such staggering aplomb as the American Frank Lloyd Wright. The model for numerous books, plays and films, including Ayn Rand’s study of megalomania, The Fountainhead, Wright designed more than 1,000 buildings during his prolific 92-year lifetime, scandalized polite society continually with his outrageous private life, and declared himself not only the single-handed founder of modern architecture, but also the greatest architect -ever.
How you decide who is the world’s greatest architect is far from clear. How do you rate Michaelangelo against the very different talent of Gaud!? What is gained by comparing Brunelleschi with Alvar Aalto? Certainly, a number of Wright’s buildings rank among the world’s most famous -the Guggenheim Museum in New York and the waterside summer house in Pennsylvania known as Fallingwater are internationally acclaimed. And yet, almost all of his architecture has huge technical faults: many of his buildings have leaked since the day they were completed; and, even as this is written, Fallingwater is being shored up, before it does, literally, fall into the water.
So, was Wright the inventor of modern architecture? Well, maybe. In his pioneering use of open-plan living spaces, his concern for the “honest” expression of materials, his interest in technology and his respect for nature, Wright anticipated almost all of the key themes that have dominated architecture in the twentieth century.
引用｜FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT Naomi Stungo
