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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bergdoll, Barry, author.

Gray, Jennifer, author.

Contributor:

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), organizer, host institution, issuing body.

Avery Library, organizer.

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), organizer, host institution, issuing body, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959--Exhibitions.

Wright, Frank Lloyd.

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.

Organic architecture--United States--Exhibitions.

Organic architecture.

Architecture, American--19th century--Exhibitions.

Architecture, American.

Architecture, American--20th century--Exhibitions.

United States.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

256 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, plans, portraits ; 31 cm

Other Title:

Frank Lloyd Wright at 150, unpacking the archive.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : The Museum of Modern Art, [2017]

Summary:

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 at Taliesin West, Arizona (recently acquired by MoMA and Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University), the book is a collection of scholarly explorations rather than an attempt to construct a master narrative. Each chapter centers on a key object from the archive that an invited author has "unpacked"-- tracing its meanings and connections, and juxtaposing it with other works from the archive, from MoMA, or from outside collections. Wright's quest to build a mile-high skyscraper reveals him to be one of the earliest celebrity architects, using television, press relations and other forms of mass media to advance his own self-crafted image. A little-known project for a Rosenwald School for African-American children, together with other projects that engage Japanese and Native American culture, ask provocative questions about Wright's positions on race and cultural identity. Still other investigations engage the architect's lifelong dedication to affordable and do-it-yourself housing, as well as the ecological systems, both social and environmental, that informed his approach to cities, landscapes and even ornament. The publication aims to open up Wright's work to questions, interrogations and debates, and to highlight interpretations by contemporary scholars, both established Wright experts and others considering this iconic figure from new and illuminating perspectives.

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.

Notes:

Published in conjunction with 'Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive', June 12-October 1, 2017, at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Illustrated endpapers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Albert M. Greenfield Memorial Fund.

Contains:

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959. Works. Selections

ISBN:

1633450260

9781633450264

OCLC:

959037938

Publisher Number:

MoMA 2381