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)

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.

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.'

Written by a leading Civil War historian and Pulitzer Prize winner, this text describes the social, economic, political, and ideological conflicts that led to a unique, tragic, and transitional event in American history. The third edition incorporates recent scholarship and addresses renewed areas of interest in the Civil War/Reconstruction era, including the motivations and ex...(展开全部)

"Ordeal by Fire" blends the most up-to-date scholarship with interpretations based on decades of teaching, research, and writing, to tell an important story - that of the American Civil War and Reconstruction. Written by a leading Civil War historian and Pulitzer Prize winner, this text describes the social, economic, political, and ideological conflicts that led to a unique, t...(展开全部)

"Ordeal by Fire" blends the most up-to-date scholarship with interpretations based on decades of teaching, research, and writing, to tell an important story - that of the American Civil War and Reconstruction. Written by a leading Civil War historian and Pulitzer Prize winner, this text describes the social, economic, political, and ideological conflicts that led to a unique, t...(展开全部)