Frank Lloyd Wright: Spoiled by Success?

April 2nd, 2010

 

Frank Lloyd Wright:  A Golden Anniversary?

Anthony Alofsin © 2010

            “…Wright still stands alone as the American modern Architect in relation to the achievements of his own generation abroad, and even of most of the next except for Le Corbusier. A hundred years after his birth, however, we may most properly see him as belonging now to the past, if in a rank to which only the greatest have ever attained. No longer is he a contemporary figure, no longer the subject of controversy as he was as regards the Guggenheim Museum down to the day of his death, but an architect for the ages.” 

 

 

The Taliesin Murders in 1914: Wright and Borthwick, a Double Tragedy

January 20th, 2010

 

These days it is difficult to think of Frank Lloyd Wright as other than a star architect and commercial box office hit.  The Guggenheim museum broke some of its own attendance records with its recent exhibition,  and an endless supply of books cater to the public’s interest in pictures of his work and sensational accounts of his life.  This review looks at a manifestations of the phenomenon, two books that focus on a tragic moment in Wright’s life.

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Anthony Alofsin, Ph.D., AIA

Award-winning artist and architect, author and art historian, Anthony Alofsin is internationally recognized as one of the world’s leading authorities on the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright and as an expert on modern architecture.

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