‎Brooks-Pfeiffer, Bruce‎
‎Wright‎

‎Urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright.‎

‎, Princeton University Press, 2015 Hardcover, 446 pages, ENG, 285 x 245 x 40 mm, New, dustjacket, fully illustrated in colour / b/w. ISBN 9780691167534.‎

‎This is the first book devoted to Frank Lloyd Wright's designs for remaking the modern city. Stunningly comprehensive, The Urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright presents a radically new interpretation of the architect's work and offers new and important perspectives on the history of modernism. Neil Levine places Wright's projects, produced over more than fifty years, within their historical, cultural, and physical contexts, while relating them to the theory and practice of urbanism as it evolved over the twentieth century. Levine overturns the conventional view of Wright as an architect who deplored the city and whose urban vision was limited to a utopian plan for a network of agrarian communities he called Broadacre City. Rather, Levine reveals Wright's larger, more varied, interesting, and complex urbanism, demonstrated across the span of his lengthy career. Beginning with Wright's plans from the late 1890s through the early 1910s for reforming residential urban neighborhoods, mainly in Chicago, and continuing through projects from the 1920s through the 1950s for commercial, mixed-use, civic, and cultural centers for Chicago, Madison, Washington, Pittsburgh, and Baghdad, Levine demonstrates Wright's place among the leading contributors to the creation of the modern city. Wright's often spectacular designs are shown to be those of an innovative precursor and creative participant in the world of ideas that shaped the modern metropolis. Lavishly illustrated with drawings, plans, maps, and photographs, this book features the first extensive new photography of materials from the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives. The Urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright will serve as one of the most important books on the architect for years to come.‎

‎Frank Lloyd Wright ‎

‎Fernand Hazan, 1986, 133 p., in-8 br., coll. "Architecture", nombreuses illustrations photos n. et b. et couleur, couverture rempliée, bon état ‎

‎Diverse, considérable, étrange, en tout cas différente, l’œuvre de Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) reste encore mal connue. Le livre de Daniel Treiber s’attache à suivre les grandes métaphores de cet art de construire original : avec sa lisibilité, avec ses textures matérielles très savantes, son raffinement, ses oscillations entre le spectaculaire et le caché, le transparent et l’opaque, le lisse et le rugueux. La nouvelle édition de cette monographie, parue en 1985, est entièrement refondue, enrichie de nouveaux chapitres d’une iconographie nouvelle. On y découvre l’inventeur d'un nouveau type de maison, plus pratique et plus agréable à vivre par rapport notamment au climat, Wright étant celui qui a fait le plus pour changer le lieu où nous habitons. Deux chapitres supplémentaires viennent enrichir l’ouvrage. L’auteur analyse comment Wright a été un précurseur de la "ville diffuse" d'aujourd'hui, la ville à la campagne, comment il voyait l’intégration du contemporain dans une ville ancienne, par exemple à travers le projet Masieri pour Venise, qui se serait magnifiquement intégré, sur la Grand Canal. La présentation d’une modernisation exemplaire d'un immeuble, construit par un autre architecte, offre une leçon qui surprendra les thuriféraires épris exclusivement chez Wright de la figure du précurseur de la modernité, avec les "maisons de la Prairie", ou l’auteur de Fallingwater et de maisons individuelles) à quoi se résume trop souvent son historiographie. Un autre nouveau chapitre traite des rapports entre Wright et le Japon, les valeurs culturelles dont Wright a transposé les valeurs culturelles, en particulier, « l’hétérogène » et le « refus de l’unité » que Wright a transposées dans son architecture. Sans oublier le rapport à la nature et au paysage, thème plus que jamais en faveur aujourd’hui ‎

‎Joseph Wright of Derby: life on paper‎

‎Bamford, Lucy: Joseph Wright of Derby: life on paper. 2025. 132 pages, illustrated in colour. Paperback. 22 x 15cms. In 2022, Derby Museums made its most significant acquisition in twenty years, with a remarkable self-portrait of Joseph Wright of Derby. Completed around 1772, this was the first and only occasion that Wright depicted himself as an artist. Curiously, it was with the specific trappings of a draughtsman - rather than a painter - that he pictured himself. Inspired by the self-portrait, this exhibition explores the role of drawing within the story of Wright's life through 50 works on paper from Derby Museums' collection.‎

‎In 2022, Derby Museums made its most significant acquisition in twenty years, with a remarkable self-portrait of Joseph Wright of Derby. Completed around 1772, this was the first and only occasion that Wright depicted himself as an artist. Curiously, it was with the specific trappings of a draughtsman - rather than a painter - that he pictured himself. Inspired by the self-portrait, this exhibition explores the role of drawing within the story of Wright's life through 50 works on paper from Derby Museums' collection.‎

‎FRERES WRIGHT, WRIGHT BROTHERS: Richard P. HALLION: The Wright Brother's Heirs of Prometheus, Smithsonian Institution, 1985. Hervé GUYOMARD et Jean-Luc RIBEMON: Wilbur Wright l'homme oiseau hôte de l'Aéro-Club de la Sarthe, I.T.F. Imprimeurs, 2008. Geo BIA: Les Frères Wright et leur Oeuvre, Vivien, 1910. Je n'aurais jamais imaginé un accueil aussi chaleureux. Archives photographique d Léon Bollée des vols de Wilbur Wright en France, 1908-1909, Wright State University, 2003.‎

‎Ensemble de 4 ouvrages. ‎

‎Frank Lloyd Wright. 40th Ed.‎

‎, TASCHEN , 2024 Hardcover, 15.6 x 21.7 cm, 1.11 kg, 512 pages. english. ISBN 9783836599672.‎

‎Wright on The star pieces of America's greatest architect A building by Frank Lloyd Wright (1867?1959) is at once unmistakably individual and evocative of an entire era. Notable for their exceptional harmony with their environment, as well as for their use of steel and glass to revolutionize the interface of indoor and outdoor, Wright?s designs helped announce the age of modernity, as much as they secured his place in the annals of architectural genius. This meticulous compilation from TASCHEN's previous monograph assembles the most important works from Wright's extensive, paradigm-shifting oeuvre into one authoritative overview of America?s most famous architect. Based on unlimited access to the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation?s archives at Taliesin West in Arizona, the collection spans the length and breadth of Wright?s projects, both realized and unrealized, from his early prairie houses, the Usonian concept homes, and the extraordinary Fallingwater to the Tokyo years, his designs for administrative buildings and places of worship, and later high-profile projects like the Guggenheim Museum in New York, as well as his fantastic visions for a better tomorrow with ?The Living City.?‎