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the frank lloyd wright exhibition at the vitra design museum in berlin ..................................................................................................................................
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frank lloyd wright - the living city --- vitra design museum berlin, july 14 – october 14, 2001 http://www.design-museum-berlin.de |
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| the exhibition uses backlit transparencies of more than a hundred of wright’ s most important drawings, photographs, models, and a large selection of decorative arts of the architect’ s achievement. exhibition in collaboration with exhibitions international, new york, and the frank lloyd wright foundation, arizona. --- frank lloyd wright (1867 - 1959) is considered one of the founding fathers of modern architecture. his innovative work, which spanned seven decades, influenced several generations of architects. although wright never worked in europe his oeuvre is widely appreciated and debated here. --- 'a building is not just a place to be. It is a way to be,' he said. wright was responsible for several of the iconic edifices of the modern age - the robie house, fallingwater, and the guggenheim museum in new york… --- ‘the living city’ in 1935, frank lloyd wright constructed a large model called ‘broadacre city’ that he presented as a scheme for the reordering of the urban landscape. the oxymoronic name given to this city of the future emphasizes its key feature: the breakdown of the dichotomy between city and country. wright was one of the first to perceive that the advent of the automobile had rendered obsolete the dense, insalubrious human concentration characteristic of the nineteenth-century city. he proposed a decentralized plan in which the necessary functions and services of modern life would be distributed over the landscape interspersed with farms and wooded areas. near the end of his life, wright returned to this concept. he wrote a book 'the living city' (horizon press, new york 1958), illustrated with drawings into which he integrated many of his realized buildings and unbuilt projects, was intended as a blueprint for the future. --- 'whether people are fully conscious of this or not, they actually derive countenance and sustenance from the 'atmosphere' of the things they live in or with. they are rooted in them just as a plant is in the soil in which it is planted,' he said. wright's creative mind was not confined to architecture. he also designed furniture, fabrics, art glass, lamps, dinnerware, silver, linens and graphic arts. frank lloyd wright had the conception of a building as a complete creation in which the interior furnishings are in harmony with the geometry and the materials of the structure itself,which was created for and integrated into a specific geographic setting. --- books authored by frank lloyd wright frank lloyd wright was a prolific writer, an educator and a philosopher. he lectured throughout the united states and in europe. wright authored twenty books and countless articles: 'ausgeführte bauten und entwürfe von F L W' , berlin 1910 'the japanese print: an interpretation' , chicago 1912 'experimenting with human lives', chicago 1923 'two lectures on architecture', chicago 1931 'modern architecture', princeton university 1931 'an autobiography,' new york 1932 'the disappearing city', new York 1932 'architecture and modern life', new york 1937 'an organic architecture', london 1939 'FLW on architecture', new york 1941 'an autobiography (revised edition)', new york 1943 'broadacre city', spring green 'when democracy builds', chicago 1945 'genius and the mobocracy', new york 1949 'the future of architecture', new york 1953 'the natural house', new york 1954 'an american architecture', new york 1955 'the story of the tower', new york 1956 'a testament', new york 1957 'the living city' , new york 1958 --- some interesting books on FLW a catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition 'frank lloyd wright – the living city' see http://www.design-museum-berlin.de '--- solomon r. guggenheim museum' the solomon r. guggenheim museum http://www.guggenheim.org german edition, 1996 by hatje & cantz http://www.hatjecantz.de frank lloyd wright taschen verlag http://www.taschen.com --- links --- the frank lloyd wright building conservancy http://www.swcp.com/FLW the frank lloyd wright foundation http://www.franklloydwright.org 'designs for an american landscape, 1922-1932' library of congress, washington 1997 http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/flw/flw.html http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/1469/flw.html http://www.cypgrp.com/flw/ http://www.swcp.com/FLW/Wright_links/wright_links.html http://www.pbs.org/flw some furniture and decorative arts collection http://www.franklloydwright.org http://members.aol.com/izumih/yamagiwa.htm http://www.cassina.it http://www.oakbrookesser.com/flw.html http://www.ghgdesign.com http://www.mhtc.net/~alchemy http://www.arthurstern.com ---  ------- monthly designboom newsletter ------- ------- ? comments and contact us ? -------  |
 frank lloyd wright courtesy the frank lloyd wright foundation + see more portraits  solomon guggenheim museum, new york 1943 -59 courtesy solomon r. guggenheim foundation + see more buildings  auldbrass plantation chair, 1938 -42 yermasse, south california courtesy vitra design museum + see more design objects  a view on the exhibition + see more snapshots |
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