Frank Lloyd Wright   United States   The Guggenheim Museum is the paradigm of original creation by an artist confronting the conventions of his times. Obtaining a building permit proved difficult, but when he finally got it, Wright expressed his satisfaction: “I ’ve been designing this

Frank Lloyd Wright   United States   The s.c. Johnson company became in 1917 the first American firm to share profits with its workers. Thanks to Glo-Coat, a self-polishing floor wax product, it successfully surpassed the Depression of the early thirties, and Herbert F Johnson, Jr., gra

Frank Lloyd Wright   United States   Wright in the thirties came up with a new method of building houses integrated into his urban conception of Broadacre City. He called them ‘Usonian houses’ and designed them specially for the new middle class that could still not afford large expendi

Frank Lloyd Wright   United States   Edgar j. kaufmann was the owner of a prosperous department store chain in the Pittsburgh area. His son, working as one of Wright's apprentices at the Taliesin Fellowship, convinced him to fund the construction of the Broadacre City model for a nation

Frank Lloyd Wright   United States   Wright's californian years culminated with a series of four houses in which concrete block took on a preponderant role as a design element. The first of these was the Millard House, popularly known as ‘La Miniatura*(as is, in Spanish), and later came

Frank Lloyd Wright   United States   Aline barnsdall, an oil heiress consumed by a love for the dramatic arts, acquired a tract of land on ‘Olive Hill’on which to make true her desire to be a patroness of the arts. Originally the project included a theater for live drama, another for m

Frank Lloyd Wright   Japan   Since His first visit to Japan in 1905, Frank Lloyd Wright was an avid collector of Japanese art. The commission for the Imperial Hotel allowed him to express his deep admiration for Nipponese culture. The challenge was twofold: on one hand was the

Frank Lloyd Wright   United States   During his dramatic flight to Europe in 1909, Frank Lloyd Wright had been impressed by the leisurely outdoor culture of the German and Austrian Biergärten. His friend Ed Waller, Jr., who shared this sentiment, suggested that Wright design just such a

Frank Lloyd Wright   United States   The robie House is the culmination of an entire era in the career and life of Frank Lloyd Wright. His built work of the two decades flanking 1900 sufficed to earn him a place in history as a great architect; fortunately, he still had energy and ideas

Frank Lloyd Wright   United States   The Larkin Building is a mythical piece of modern architecture. Part of the myth is due to the radical innovations in both its formal composition and its functional and technical solutions. Yet the myth consolidated only when the building was razed i

Frank Lloyd Wright   United States   A few weeks after leaving Louis Sullivan's office, Frank Lloyd Wright was already working on his first commission. He was only 26. The Winslow House - like all works that constitute a leap forward - was controversial in its novelty. The standard thi

Frank Lloyd Wright   United States   Within the interpretation of his own genius as demiurge of his time, Wright created his own formula to deal with religión, a mixture of Laotse with a philosophical and practical Protestant Christianism, an intelectual and aesthetic option rather than

The Guardian   Dani Anguiano   The only oceanfront home designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright has sold for $22m in California’s Carmel-by-the-Sea, the dreamy coastal enclave where Clint Eastwood once served as mayor... The Guardian. ‘Delicate as the seashore’: rare Frank Lloyd

AD   Katherine McLaughlin   Just 35 minutes from Manhattan, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Socrates Zaferiou House sits on 2.5 private acres within Clausland Mountain Park in Blauvelt, New York. “It’s a complete escape from our New York City life, so it’s meant to be a decompression,” Sa

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Las grandes figuras del siglo XX transformaron el lenguaje de la arquitectura desde su familiaridad con los cánones clásicos. Aun en el caso de aquellos que no tuvieron una educación académica convencional, la sensibilidad clasicista les llegó a trav

Luis Fernández-Galiano   In the ephemeral Glasraum of the Werkbund’s 1927 exhibition in Stuttgart, the dynamic Wrightian space flows between glazed walls that reconcile the expressionist reflections with the transparency of the Sachlichkeit to expose universal truths at the

Luis Fernández-Galiano was twice on a scholarship program of the Fundación Juan March – in Spain in 1976-1977 and abroad in 1966-1968 – but his first lecture at the foundation headquarters took place in 2010. In the course of a decade thereafter, he

Luis Fernández-Galiano gave a series of lectures over different years for the Friends of the Prado Museum Foundation: ‘Jerusalén y Babilonia en el siglo XX’ ‘Del Gabinete al Campus: las transformaciones de la sede del Museo del Prado’ ‘El clasicismo

El País   Daniel Díez Martínez   Para el ruso Melnikov, su vivienda se convirtió en su cárcel. Philip Johnson exhibió su día a día en la Glass House y Le Corbusier eligió para él la cabaña más pequeña que jamás había diseñado. El edificio de viviendas sociales de El Ruedo (Madrid, 1

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Both Frank Lloyd Wright and Marina Abramović led extreme lives, but the latest publications that document them could not be more different. The most recent biography of the American architect is a torrential text – with a rather baroque language and

The Guardian   Desert home was built for son and daughter-in-law in 1952 Buyers reportedly intend to preserve and restore house...

The New York Times   Michael Kimmelman   Frank Lloyd Wright’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is still a shock on Fifth Avenue. The architecture declines to fade into the background or get old, never mind the building turns 60 this month. Happy birthday to one of modern architecture’s transcen

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The Wright factory produces publications without pause, and most are dispensable. Not so the two Yale University Press books that explore the architect’s ambivalent relationship with New York City. Written by two excellent historians, they deal with

Realtor   Adriana Vélez   Frank Lloyd Wright homes have more cachet than houses built by any other architect. It's no wonder, then, that when Wright homes go up for sale, they get plenty of attention. And, with only 400-some Wright structures still standing, surely these list

Metropolis   Jane Levere   The works featured in Frank Lloyd Wright Textiles: The Taliesin Line, 1955–60 were based on Wright’s architectural vocabulary and inspired by specific buildings.  A new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art features printed and woven text

The Guardian   Tadao Ando    The first time I became aware of modernism was through the work of Le Corbusier. I first laid my eyes on his monograph in the art section of a secondhand bookstore. It was too expensive to buy right away, so I saved my money and bought it a month lat

Curbed   Jay Koziarz   Built as a private residence near the University of Chicago’s Hyde Park campus, the Robie House epitomizes Wright’s Prairie School architectural style. The early 20th-century movement drew both its name and inspiration from the Midwest’s flat la

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The 150th anniversary of Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) has been celebrated with an exhibition at the MoMA and a book on the more than one hundred exhibitions on his work held during the architect’s life. The New York show was organized by the Columb

In 2012 the Avery Library at Columbia University bought from the Wright Foundation the huge archive that the architect put together in the course of his career of almost seventy years: 55,000 drawings, 125,000 photographs, 300,000 letters, and innume

Luis Fernández-Galiano   If there is a quintessentially anti-urban master, it is Frank Lloyd Wright. After all, his great urbanistic utopia is Broadacre, which he published under the title The Disappearing City, and his militant ruralism has been indistinctly associated with

Marina Otero   An exhibition at New York’s MoMA shows how, in Wright’s vision of the American city, density and dispersal were two sides of the same coin. 

José Antonio Flores   What should good professors do when they retire? Put into writing everything they devoted their academic life to, before their teachings fall into oblivion. This is what Colin Rowe did with the original version of this book (2002), based on notes his

Darío Álvarez   “Dear Corbu, everything we have fought for is paralleled in ancient Japanese culture.” With this, written on a postcard of Ryoanji (the legendary karesansui zen garden of fifteen rocks, built in the 15th century as a metaphor of time) sent in 1954, G

Ramón Rodríguez Llera   A good part of the essential principles of architectural modernity would not be understandable without the influence of Japanese culture.

Josep Maria Montaner   The exhibition ‘Las otras Pedreras’ and its catalog, both subtitled ‘Arquitectura y diseño en el mundo a principios del siglo XX’, commemorate the 100 years since the opening of Antoni Gaudí’s La Pedrera building. Along the lines of Pevsner, they rel

Paul Hendrickson   The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright

Francesco Dal Co   Frank Lloyd Wright’s Iconoclastic Masterpiece

Anthony Alofsin   The Making of America’s Architect

Barry Bergdoll Jennifer Gray   Unpacking the Archive

Kathryn Smith   Frank Lloyd Wright’s Architectural Echibitions

Marc Treib   Wright, Mies, Neutra, Aalto, Barragán

Neil Levine   Princeton  2016  
Princeton University Press   - 446 Pages 

Frank Lloyd Wright   The Khan Lectures, Princeton 1930

Herman van Bergeijk   Rotterdam  2001  
Uitgeverig 010 Publishers   - 159 Pages 

Paco Asensio   México  2000  
Gustavo Gili   - 175 Pages 

Frank Lloyd Wright   Madrid  1998  
El Croquis Editorial   - 667 Pages