Frank Lloyd Wright : unpacking the archive / Barry Bergdoll, Jennifer Gray ; with essays by Michael Desmond, Carole Ann Fabian, Elizabeth S. Hawley, Juliet Kinchin, Neil Levine, Ellen Moody, Therese O'Mally, Ken Tadashi Oshima, Michael Osman, Spyros Papapetros, Janet Parks, Matthew Skjonsberg, David Smiley, Mabel O. Wilson.

Published for a major exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, this catalog reveals new perspectives on the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, a designer so prolific and familiar as to nearly preclude critical reexamination. Structured as a series of inquiries into the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bergdoll, Barry (Author)
Gray, Jennifer (Author)
Corporate Authors: Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (Organizer, Host institution, Issuing body)
Avery Library (Organizer)
Other Authors: Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959
Language:English
Published: New York, New York : The Museum of Modern Art, [2017]
Subjects:
Wright, Frank Lloyd, > 1867-1959 > Exhibitions.
Organic architecture > United States > Exhibitions.
Architecture, American > 19th century > Exhibitions.
Architecture, American > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Architecture, American.
Organic architecture.
United States.
Wright, Frank Lloyd, > 1867-1959.
Architektur.
Skizze.
Bauentwurf.
1800-1999
Exhibition catalogs.
Illustrated works.
Genre:
Exhibitions.
Exhibition catalogs.
Illustrated works.
Physical Description:256 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans, portraits ; 31 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Foreword / Glenn D. Lowry
  • Introduction / Barry Bergdoll and Carole Ann Fabian
  • NATURE: The floricycle: designing with native and exotic plants / Therese O'Malley
  • Pattern behind the realism: The Jensen graphic / Jennifer Gray
  • Little farms unit: Nature, ecology, and community / Juliet Kinchin
  • CULTURE: Reframing the Imperial Hotel: between East and West / Ken Tadashi Oshima
  • "Playing Indian" at the Nakoma Country Club / Elizabeth S. Hawley
  • Rosenwald School: Lessons in progressive education / Mabel O. Wilson
  • PROCESS: The final mousetrap: Ornament from Midway Gardens to the V.C. Morris Gift Shop / Spyros Papapetros
  • Abstracting the landscape: Galesburg above and below the surface / Michael Desmond
  • American system-built houses: Authorship and mass production / Michael Osman
  • Do It Yourself: Usonian Automatic System / Matthew Skjonsberg
  • CITY: Wrights's Urbanism and the Skyscraper Regulation Project / Neil Levine
  • Broad acres and narrow lots / David Smiley
  • Reading "Mile-High": The Chicago Skyline and the stakes of fame / Barry Bergdoll
  • ARCHIVE: Conserving and exhibiting the New York models / Ellen Moody
  • Architectural drawing: Materials, process, people / Janet Parks
  • Visualizing the archives / Carole Ann Fabian.