弗兰克·劳埃德·赖特 Frank Lloyd Wright 1867-1959，美国最重要的建筑家，被誉为世界现代建筑四位大师之一。其代表作有流水别墅、纽约古根海姆美术馆、东京帝国饭店等。他崇尚自然的建筑观念，其“有机建筑”和“广亩城市”的理念及草原式住宅的风格， 对现代建筑界有极大的影响。他擅用机械为建筑艺术服务，同时力求在建筑中体现材料自然的天性，以使整个建筑与自然环境合而为一，成为“活的有机体”。同时，他坎坷坚韧而多情不羁的一生亦为世人津津乐道，成为众多著名文学作品的原型甚至文化偶像，如安·兰德之《源泉》，南希·霍兰之《爱上赖特》等。

Explores the guiding principles and major aspects of Wright's work, drawing from his formal and informal teachings and complemented by 250 photographs, drawings and architectural plans.

Frank Lloyd Wright has long been known as a rank egotist who held in contempt almost everything aside from his own genius. Harder to detect, but no less real, is a Wright who fully understood, and suffered from, the choices he made. This is the Wright whom Paul Hendrickson reveals in this masterful biography: the Wright who was haunted by his father, about whom he told the grea...(展开全部)

As Robert Fishman writes of three of urban planning's greatest visionaries, Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, they 'hated the cities of their time with an overwhelming passion. The metropolis was the counter-image of their ideal cities, the hell that inspired their heavens.'

As Robert Fishman writes of three of urban planning's greatest visionaries, Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, they 'hated the cities of their time with an overwhelming passion. The metropolis was the counter-image of their ideal cities, the hell that inspired their heavens.'

Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly: Wilbur and Orville Wright. On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two unknown brothers from Ohio changed history. But it would take the world some time to believe what had happened: the age of fli...(展开全部)

I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright. Four years earlier, in 1903, Mamah and her husband, Edwin, had commissioned the renowned architect to design a new home for them. ...(展开全部)

I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright. Four years earlier, in 1903, Mamah and her husband, Edwin, had commissioned the renowned architect to design a new home for them. ...(展开全部)

Brand new: An unprecedented catalog of modern trademarks Modernist aesthetics in architecture, art, and product design are familiar to many. In soaring glass structures or minimalist canvases, we recognize a time of vast technological advance which affirmed the power of human beings to reshape their environment and to break, radically, from the conventions or constraints of th...(展开全部)