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- ISBN-13
- 9780691129372
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- ISBN
- 9780691129372
- Book Title
- Modern Architecture : Being the Kahn Lectures for 1930
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Item Length
- 10.8 in
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Features
- Revised
- Genre
- Architecture
- Topic
- Buildings / Public, Commercial & Industrial, Individual Architects & Firms / General, Criticism, Regional, History / General
- Item Weight
- 27.1 Oz
- Item Width
- 8.3 in
- Number of Pages
- 208 Pages
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
0691129371
ISBN-13
9780691129372
eBay Product ID (ePID)
63816594
Product Key Features
Book Title
Modern Architecture : Being the Kahn Lectures for 1930
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Topic
Buildings / Public, Commercial & Industrial, Individual Architects & Firms / General, Criticism, Regional, History / General
Features
Revised
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Architecture
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
27.1 Oz
Item Length
10.8 in
Item Width
8.3 in
Additional Product Features
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Trade
LCCN
2007-940601
Reviews
""Exuberant, confessedly romantic, insistently individualistic, at times even florid and rhetorical, [ Modern Architecture ] is still (and I say it, who fought my rising enthusiasm at every turn of a page) the very best book on modern architecture that exists." ---Catherine Bauer, New Republic, Praise for the original edition: "Exuberant, confessedly romantic, insistently individualistic, at times even florid and rhetorical, [Modern Architecture] is still (and I say it, who fought my rising enthusiasm at every turn of a page) the very best book on modern architecture that exists., Praise for the original edition: "Exuberant, confessedly romantic, insistently individualistic, at times even florid and rhetorical, [ Modern Architecture ] is still (and I say it, who fought my rising enthusiasm at every turn of a page) the very best book on modern architecture that exists." --Catherine Bauer, New Republic, Praise for the original edition: "Exuberant, confessedly romantic, insistently individualistic, at times even florid and rhetorical, [ Modern Architecture ] is still (and I say it, who fought my rising enthusiasm at every turn of a page) the very best book on modern architecture that exists., "Perhaps some people think you can have too many books on Frank Lloyd Wright, but I believe there's always room for more. This year, it's a scholarly duo from Princeton University Press: The Essential Frank Lloyd Wright: Critical Writings on Architecture , edited by Wright scholar Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (453 pages, $49.95) and the essential Modern Architecture: Being the Kahn Lectures for 1930 , with a new introduction by Neil Levine (115 pages, $29.95)." --Mary Chandler, Rocky Mountain News, Perhaps some people think you can have too many books on Frank Lloyd Wright, but I believe there's always room for more. This year, it's a scholarly duo from Princeton University Press: The Essential Frank Lloyd Wright: Critical Writings on Architecture , edited by Wright scholar Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (453 pages, $49.95) and the essential Modern Architecture: Being the Kahn Lectures for 1930 , with a new introduction by Neil Levine (115 pages, $29.95). -- Mary Chandler, Rocky Mountain News, Perhaps some people think you can have too many books on Frank Lloyd Wright, but I believe there's always room for more. This year, it's a scholarly duo from Princeton University Press: The Essential Frank Lloyd Wright: Critical Writings on Architecture , edited by Wright scholar Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (453 pages, $49.95) and the essential Modern Architecture: Being the Kahn Lectures for 1930 , with a new introduction by Neil Levine (115 pages, $29.95). ---Mary Chandler, Rocky Mountain News, "Perhaps some people think you can have too many books on Frank Lloyd Wright, but I believe there's always room for more. This year, it's a scholarly duo from Princeton University Press: The Essential Frank Lloyd Wright: Critical Writings on Architecture , edited by Wright scholar Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (453 pages, $49.95) and the essential Modern Architecture: Being the Kahn Lectures for 1930 , with a new introduction by Neil Levine (115 pages, $29.95)."-- Mary Chandler, Rocky Mountain News, The endpapers of Modern Architecture --which Princeton University Press has reissued in a facsimile of its original 1931 edition--are embellished with Wright aphorisms that recall the improving mottoes typically displayed in Arts and Crafts interiors. . . . The Princeton reprint has an authoritative introduction by the architectural historian Neil Levine. ---Martin Filler, New York Review of Books, Perhaps some people think you can have too many books on Frank Lloyd Wright, but I believe there's always room for more. This year, it's a scholarly duo from Princeton University Press: The Essential Frank Lloyd Wright: Critical Writings on Architecture , edited by Wright scholar Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (453 pages, $49.95) and the essential Modern Architecture: Being the Kahn Lectures for 1930 , with a new introduction by Neil Levine (115 pages, $29.95)., The endpapers of Modern Architecture --which Princeton University Press has reissued in a facsimile of its original 1931 edition--are embellished with Wright aphorisms that recall the improving mottoes typically displayed in Arts and Crafts interiors. . . . The Princeton reprint has an authoritative introduction by the architectural historian Neil Levine. -- Martin Filler, New York Review of Books, Praise for the original edition: "Exuberant, confessedly romantic, insistently individualistic, at times even florid and rhetorical, [ Modern Architecture ] is still (and I say it, who fought my rising enthusiasm at every turn of a page) the very best book on modern architecture that exists."-- Catherine Bauer, New Republic, The endpapers of Modern Architecture --which Princeton University Press has reissued in a facsimile of its original 1931 edition--are embellished with Wright aphorisms that recall the improving mottoes typically displayed in Arts and Crafts interiors. . . . The Princeton reprint has an authoritative introduction by the architectural historian Neil Levine., The endpapers ofModern Architecture--which Princeton University Press has reissued in a facsimile of its original 1931 edition--are embellished with Wright aphorisms that recall the improving mottoes typically displayed in Arts and Crafts interiors. . . . The Princeton reprint has an authoritative introduction by the architectural historian Neil Levine., Perhaps some people think you can have too many books on Frank Lloyd Wright, but I believe there's always room for more. This year, it's a scholarly duo from Princeton University Press:The Essential Frank Lloyd Wright: Critical Writings on Architecture, edited by Wright scholar Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (453 pages, $49.95) and the essentialModern Architecture: Being the Kahn Lectures for 1930, with a new introduction by Neil Levine (115 pages, $29.95). -- Mary Chandler, Rocky Mountain News, "The endpapers of Modern Architecture --which Princeton University Press has reissued in a facsimile of its original 1931 edition--are embellished with Wright aphorisms that recall the improving mottoes typically displayed in Arts and Crafts interiors. . . . The Princeton reprint has an authoritative introduction by the architectural historian Neil Levine." --Martin Filler, New York Review of Books, The endpapers ofModern Architecture--which Princeton University Press has reissued in a facsimile of its original 1931 edition--are embellished with Wright aphorisms that recall the improving mottoes typically displayed in Arts and Crafts interiors. . . . The Princeton reprint has an authoritative introduction by the architectural historian Neil Levine. -- Martin Filler, New York Review of Books, Perhaps some people think you can have too many books on Frank Lloyd Wright, but I believe there's always room for more. This year, it's a scholarly duo from Princeton University Press:The Essential Frank Lloyd Wright: Critical Writings on Architecture, edited by Wright scholar Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (453 pages, $49.95) and the essentialModern Architecture: Being the Kahn Lectures for 1930, with a new introduction by Neil Levine (115 pages, $29.95)., Praise for the original edition: "Exuberant, confessedly romantic, insistently individualistic, at times even florid and rhetorical, [ Modern Architecture ] is still (and I say it, who fought my rising enthusiasm at every turn of a page) the very best book on modern architecture that exists. -- Catherine Bauer, New Republic, Praise for the original edition: "Exuberant, confessedly romantic, insistently individualistic, at times even florid and rhetorical, [ Modern Architecture ] is still (and I say it, who fought my rising enthusiasm at every turn of a page) the very best book on modern architecture that exists." ---Catherine Bauer, New Republic, "The endpapers of Modern Architecture --which Princeton University Press has reissued in a facsimile of its original 1931 edition--are embellished with Wright aphorisms that recall the improving mottoes typically displayed in Arts and Crafts interiors. . . . The Princeton reprint has an authoritative introduction by the architectural historian Neil Levine."-- Martin Filler, New York Review of Books
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
724.6
Edition Description
Revised edition
Table Of Content
INTRODUCTION PREFACE CHAPTER 1: MACHINERY, MATERIALS AND MEN CHAPTER 2: STYLE IN INDUSTRY CHAPTER 3: THE PASSING OF THE CORNICE CHAPTER 4: THE CARDBOARD HOUSE CHAPTER 5: THE TYRANNY OF THE SKYSCRAPER CHAPTER 6: THE CITY
Synopsis
Modern Architecture is a landmark text--the first book in which America's greatest architect put forth the principles of a fundamentally new, organic architecture that would reject the trappings of historical styles while avoiding the geometric abstraction of the machine aesthetic advocated by contemporary European modernists. One of the most important documents in the development of modern architecture and the career of Frank Lloyd Wright, Modern Architecture is a provocative and profound polemic against America's architectural eclecticism, commercial skyscrapers, and misguided urban planning. The book is also a work of savvy self-promotion, in which Wright not only advanced his own concept of an organic architecture but also framed it as having anticipated by decades--and bettered--what he saw as the reductive modernism of his European counterparts. Based on the 1931 original, for which Wright supplied the cover illustration, this beautiful edition includes a new introduction that puts Modern Architecture in its broader architectural, historical, and intellectual context for the first time.The subjects of these lively lectures--from "Machinery, Materials and Men" to "The Tyranny of the Skyscraper" and "The City"--move from a general statement of the conditions of modern culture to particular applications in the fields of architecture and urbanism at ever broadening scales.Wright's vision in Modern Architecture is ultimately to equate the truly modern with romanticism, imagination, beauty, and nature--all of which he connects with an underlying sense of American democratic freedom and individualism., Frank Lloyd Wright's classic account of his vision for an organic architecture--in a beautifully designed new edition Modern Architecture is a landmark text--the first book in which America's greatest architect put forth the principles of a fundamentally new, organic architecture that would reject the trappings of historical styles while avoiding the geometric abstraction of the machine aesthetic advocated by contemporary European modernists. One of the most important documents in the development of modern architecture and the career of Frank Lloyd Wright, Modern Architecture is a provocative and profound polemic against America's architectural eclecticism, commercial skyscrapers, and misguided urban planning. The book is also a work of savvy self-promotion, in which Wright not only advanced his own concept of an organic architecture but also framed it as having anticipated by decades--and bettered--what he saw as the reductive modernism of his European counterparts. Based on the 1931 original, for which Wright supplied the cover illustration, this beautiful edition includes a new introduction that puts Modern Architecture in its broader architectural, historical, and intellectual context for the first time. The subjects of these lively lectures--from "Machinery, Materials and Men" to "The Tyranny of the Skyscraper" and "The City"--move from a general statement of the conditions of modern culture to particular applications in the fields of architecture and urbanism at ever broadening scales. Wright's vision in Modern Architecture is ultimately to equate the truly modern with romanticism, imagination, beauty, and nature--all of which he connects with an underlying sense of American democratic freedom and individualism., Modern Architecture is a landmark text--the first book in which America's greatest architect put forth the principles of a fundamentally new, organic architecture that would reject the trappings of historical styles while avoiding the geometric abstraction of the machine aesthetic advocated by contemporary European modernists. One of the most important documents in the development of modern architecture and the career of Frank Lloyd Wright, Modern Architecture is a provocative and profound polemic against America's architectural eclecticism, commercial skyscrapers, and misguided urban planning. The book is also a work of savvy self-promotion, in which Wright not only advanced his own concept of an organic architecture but also framed it as having anticipated by decades--and bettered--what he saw as the reductive modernism of his European counterparts. Based on the 1931 original, for which Wright supplied the cover illustration, this beautiful edition includes a new introduction that puts Modern Architecture in its broader architectural, historical, and intellectual context for the first time. The subjects of these lively lectures--from "Machinery, Materials and Men" to "The Tyranny of the Skyscraper" and "The City"--move from a general statement of the conditions of modern culture to particular applications in the fields of architecture and urbanism at ever broadening scales. Wright's vision in Modern Architecture is ultimately to equate the truly modern with romanticism, imagination, beauty, and nature--all of which he connects with an underlying sense of American democratic freedom and individualism., A polemic against America's architectural eclecticism, commercial skyscrapers, and misguided urban planning. It moves from a general statement of the conditions of modern culture to applications in the fields of architecture and urbanism at broadening scales.
LC Classification Number
NA737.W7W69 2008
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