Frank Lloyd Wright: The Architecture of Defiance

Frank Lloyd Wright: The Architecture of Defiance
ISBN-10
1786839148
ISBN-13
9781786839145
Series
Frank Lloyd Wright
Category
Architecture
Pages
358
Language
English
Published
2022-09-15
Publisher
University of Wales Press
Author
Jonathan Adams

Description

The story of Frank Lloyd Wright’s life is no less astounding than his greatest architectural works. He enmeshed himself eagerly in myth and hearsay, and revelled in the extravagance of his creative persona. Throughout his long career, Wright strongly resisted the suggestion that his accomplishments owed anything to earthly influences. As much as he wanted his achievements to be recognised, he wanted them to be unaccountable – but they are not. This book reveals for the first time how his unbreakable self-belief and startling creative defiance both originated in the liberal religious and philosophical attitudes woven into his personality during his childhood – deliberately so by his mother and by his many aunts and uncles, to honour the fierce Welsh radicalism of their ancestors.

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