Wright at Columbia
This year, the 150th anniversary of Frank Lloyd Wright's birth, has yielded plenty of publications, exhibitions, and other events about the world's most famous modern architect. A few of them -- a book, an exhibition and a related symposium -- are centered at Columbia University, whose Avery Library co-owns the Wright archive with MoMA, which is exhibiting (until October 1) the must-see Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive.
BOOK
Wright's Writings: Reflections on Culture and Politics 1894-1959 by Kenneth Frampton
Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2017
Paperback, 144 pages
When MoMA curator and Columbia professor Barry Bergdoll gave comments during the opening of Frank Lloyd Wright at 150 when it opened back in June, one statement that stuck in my memory is that Wright is one of the few architects as well known outside academia as within. One side effect of this fact is that Wright has not been as large an influence in architectural education as Mies, Corbusier, Kahn, and other "modern masters." One scholar, though, who has not shied away from incorporating Wright into architectural history alongside these and other figures is Columbia professor Kenneth Frampton. Although to my knowledge he hasn't written a book exclusively about Wright, Frampton has included Wright in his own books and has contributed to books about the architect. One of the latter is the five-volume Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings put out by Rizzoli in the e...
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