Wright and New York: The Making of America's Architect
An “immensely valuable” dual biography of the iconic American architect and the city that transformed his career in the early twentieth century (Francis Morrone, New Criterion).

Frank Lloyd Wright took his first major trip to New York in 1909, fleeing a failed marriage and artistic stagnation. He returned a decade later, his personal life and architectural career again in crisis. Booming 1920s New York served as a refuge, but it also challenged him and resurrected his career. The city connected Wright with important clients and commissions that would harness his creative energy and define his role in modern architecture, even as the stock market crash took its toll on his benefactors.

Anthony Alofsin has broken new ground by mining the Wright archives held by Columbia University and the Museum of Modern Art. His foundational research provides a crucial and innovative understanding of Wright’s life, his career, and the conditions that enabled his success. The result is at once a stunning biography and a glittering portrait of early twentieth-century Manhattan.
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Wright and New York: The Making of America's Architect
An “immensely valuable” dual biography of the iconic American architect and the city that transformed his career in the early twentieth century (Francis Morrone, New Criterion).

Frank Lloyd Wright took his first major trip to New York in 1909, fleeing a failed marriage and artistic stagnation. He returned a decade later, his personal life and architectural career again in crisis. Booming 1920s New York served as a refuge, but it also challenged him and resurrected his career. The city connected Wright with important clients and commissions that would harness his creative energy and define his role in modern architecture, even as the stock market crash took its toll on his benefactors.

Anthony Alofsin has broken new ground by mining the Wright archives held by Columbia University and the Museum of Modern Art. His foundational research provides a crucial and innovative understanding of Wright’s life, his career, and the conditions that enabled his success. The result is at once a stunning biography and a glittering portrait of early twentieth-century Manhattan.
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Wright and New York: The Making of America's Architect

Wright and New York: The Making of America's Architect

by Anthony Alofsin
Wright and New York: The Making of America's Architect

Wright and New York: The Making of America's Architect

by Anthony Alofsin

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An “immensely valuable” dual biography of the iconic American architect and the city that transformed his career in the early twentieth century (Francis Morrone, New Criterion).

Frank Lloyd Wright took his first major trip to New York in 1909, fleeing a failed marriage and artistic stagnation. He returned a decade later, his personal life and architectural career again in crisis. Booming 1920s New York served as a refuge, but it also challenged him and resurrected his career. The city connected Wright with important clients and commissions that would harness his creative energy and define his role in modern architecture, even as the stock market crash took its toll on his benefactors.

Anthony Alofsin has broken new ground by mining the Wright archives held by Columbia University and the Museum of Modern Art. His foundational research provides a crucial and innovative understanding of Wright’s life, his career, and the conditions that enabled his success. The result is at once a stunning biography and a glittering portrait of early twentieth-century Manhattan.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780300243802
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 06/24/2022
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 353
File size: 17 MB
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About the Author

Anthony Alofsin, a leading authority on Frank Lloyd Wright, is a prize-winning author, a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and the Roland Roessner Centennial Professor of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

1 Points of Departure 8

2 Fleeting Glances 28

3 Nadir 49

4 Refuge 68

5 Urban Visions 97

6 Desert Dialogue 110

7 Spinning Tower 124

8 Command Performance 148

9 Pivot Point 163

10 Wright as Writer 184

11 Phoenix Rising 211

12 Zenith 238

Epilogue 266

Chronology 268

Abbreviations 277

Notes 279

Sources 321

Acknowledgments 325

Illustration Credits 327

Index 329

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