Frank Lloyd Wright & Lewis Mumford: Thirty Years of Correspondence
- ISBN-10
- 1568982917
- ISBN-13
- 9781568982915
- Category
- Architecture
- Pages
- 294
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001-09
- Publisher
- Princeton Architectural Press
- Authors
- Robert Wojtowicz, Bruce B. Pfeiffer
Description
Their 160 letters from 1926-1958 covered a wide range of topics, including Wright's position on the history of American architecture and contemporary practice, their friends and rivals, the invention and spread of the International Style, and political events in Europe and the United States.".
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