April 14, 2008 – 10:28 am
The Essential Frank Lloyd Wright:Critical Writings on ArchitectureThis book came out in February, but I just noticed it on a book store run over the weekend (unemployment is great way to force yourself to spend less on books). Though much of the content is available elsewhere, and you may even own some of it, the […]
Blair Kamin’s Sunday column reviews the book Great Houses of Chicago, 1871-1921 by Susan Benjamin and Stuart Cohen. Both H. H. Richardson and Frank Lloyd Wright homes made the book, along with 31 other, slightly more traditional homes.
Billed as the first authoritative study of Chicago’s mansions, the book sheds new light on a spectacular cache […]
The May 2008 issue of Dwell has a two-page interview with Pedro Guerrero, Frank Lloyd Wright’s photographer (and Alexander Caler’s and Louise Nevelson’s). If you are a Dwell hater, or are easily annoyed by high-income, urban-residing, black-wearing, twenty-something hipsters, the short interview probably isn’t worth the $5.99 cover price.
But Guerrero is extremely talented and […]
Blair Kamin’s weblog, The Skyline, has a brief post on a recent meeting he had with Ada Louise Huxatble, architecture critic for the Wall Street Journal and author of a recent biography of Frank Lloyd Wright.
The topic of Wright does not come up, but there is news of a new book by Huxtable, arriving in […]
[Found via ArchitectureChicago Plus]
The alumni magazine for Yale had a very good profile of Vincent Scully, one of the (or maybe just the) most influential art historians.
Scully was a client of Wright’s (though his house was never built — too expensive) and among his students is Neil Levine, himself an important Wright scholar.
The article […]
February 10, 2008 – 2:32 pm
Speaking of Florida Southern College, Arcadia Publishing is releasing a book on the Wright buildings at FSC, logically titled The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright at Florida Southern College
the book was complied by three members of the faculty of FSC, and contains photos from the length of the 20-year span of construction of Wright’s campus.
There […]
January 30, 2008 – 12:03 pm
I don’t generally mention The Frank lloyd Wright Quarterly. If you subscribe, you already know what’s in the current issue, and if you aren’t a member of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, since the content isn’t on-line, you can’t read it, so there really isn’t any point in mentioning it.
But the Winter 2008 issue is […]
January 1, 2008 – 6:50 pm
The Houston Chronicle has a review of Martin Filler’s recent book Makers of Modern Architecture — a fun, occasionally wicked, survey of some the major architects of the 20th Century.
The book is a collection of the Filler’s essays from the New York Review of Books and they are characteristic of the NYRB: intelligent, witty, opinionated […]
January 1, 2008 – 7:57 am
The New York times started the new year off with an article on Marion Mahony Griffin. Partly about the efforts by scholars to publicize her work, partly biographical sketch, and mentions the on-line version of her Magic of America and the recent book on Millikin Place, published by the Walter Burley Griffin Society.
The broader effort […]
December 31, 2007 – 11:20 am
Blair Kamin has written three capsule reviews for Newsday, including one of Frank Lloyd Wright in New York. He calls the book “a well-told tale” and offers good perspective on both his last decade and role the Guggenheim played in making fertile soil for today’s architectural stars.
I’ve seen, but don’t yet own the book (the […]