Synopses & Reviews
These writings cover Wright's personality and life style (a New Yorker profile by Alexander Woolcott, John Noble Richards on Wright's funeral...), Wright's clients and his work (accounts by Paul and Jean Hanna, Loren Pope, Edgar Kaufmann, Jr., Russell Sturgis...), the discovery of Wright by Europeans, and more recent evaluations by Lewis Mumford and Reyner Banham, among others.
Review
"Brooks has made an extra effort to embrace essays or reminiscences or vignettes not so easily obtainable elsewhere, or not previously translated, or not even previously published. To young students of Wright's architecture, this gathering of testimony should prove exceptionally illuminating. It also serves to remind more experienced readers that the best writing about Wright has not issued from the confines of academic architectural history."
- Donald Hoffman, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
Synopsis
In this book Allen Brooks has produced biography and architectural history by the unorthodox method of weaving many voices together into a single fabric. The focus is on the reality and myth of Frank Lloyd Wright. The writings cover Wright's personality and life style, Wrights clients and his work, and more recent evaluations by Lewis Mumford and Reyner Banham, among others.
Synopsis
These writings cover Wright's personality and life style (a