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.

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。

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.'

塔亚莉·琼斯（Tayari Jones） 1970年出生于亚特兰大，美国当代黑人作家。已获众多文学奖项，同时也是罗格斯大学纽瓦克学院副教授，内华达大学黑山学院访问学者。著有四部小说，其中《银雀》（Silver Sparrow）曾入选美国教育协会精选图书库。 2018年出版的《美国式婚姻》在美国已印刷超过500， 000册，被奥巴马列入夏季书单，同时入选奥普拉图书俱乐部，提名美国国家图书奖，Goodreads读者年度选择奖，被评为2018年Apple Books年度最佳书籍。2019年本书获得美国阿斯彭语言文学奖，美国黑人图书馆协会小说文学奖，并入围奥威尔文学奖长名单。 2019年6月5日凭借《美国式婚姻》，塔亚莉获得女性小说奖(Women's Prize for Fiction)，击败去年布克奖得主安娜·伯恩斯（Anna Burns）的和前布克奖得主...(展开全部)

塔亚莉·琼斯（Tayari Jones） 1970年出生于亚特兰大，美国当代黑人作家。已获众多文学奖项，同时也是罗格斯大学纽瓦克学院副教授，内华达大学黑山学院访问学者。著有四部小说，其中《银雀》（Silver Sparrow）曾入选美国教育协会精选图书库。 2018年出版的《美国式婚姻》在美国已印刷超过500， 000册，被奥巴马列入夏季书单，同时入选奥普拉图书俱乐部，提名美国国家图书奖，Goodreads读者年度选择奖，被评为2018年Apple Books年度最佳书籍。2019年本书获得美国阿斯彭语言文学奖，美国黑人图书馆协会小说文学奖，并入围奥威尔文学奖长名单。 2019年6月5日凭借《美国式婚姻》，塔亚莉获得女性小说奖(Women's Prize for Fiction)，击败去年布克奖得主安娜·伯恩斯（Anna Burns）的和前布克奖得主...(展开全部)

Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he ...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 The classic depiction of the harsh realities of American life, the dark side of the American Dream, and one man's doomed pursuit of love and success... "Mr. Dreiser is not imitative and belongs to no school. He is at heart a mysticist and a fatalist, though using the realistic method. He is, on the evidence of this novel alone, a power."- The New York Times Book Rev...(展开全部)