[Confession: I was keeping this under my hat for months, so they wouldn’t sell out before I got my copy. Since the book showed up under the Christmas tree, I will share. Unethical — yeah, kinda, but if you want ethics, offer me a paycheck.]
Daedalus Books is selling the 2000 edition of John Szarkowski’s The […]
If you live in or near Chicago, hie down to the Prairie Avenue Bookshop and check out Auditorium, a facsimile edition of a book published in 1890 just after the opening of the Louis Sullivan masterpiece.
Within weeks after the building’s completion, Garczynski produced a detailed description of the building, with more than 50 photos (many […]
Lynn Becker tags the book “Pedro E. Guerrero: A Photographer’s Journey“: as a great last minute Christmas gift. It’s hard to imagine a better recommendation for a Wright fan.
A few months ago, Becker wrote a good, longer review of the book, that everyone should read. Guerrrero’s story — not just of his time with Wright, […]
In August, Donald Hoffmann, author of many of the those ubiquitous Dover Publication FLW books, has donated a collection of 454 items — books, magazines and newsletters — to the Allen-Lambe House Museum and Study Center in Witchita. Hoffmann was the architecture critic for the Kansas City Star until 1990.
The most recent issues of the Preservation […]
Windy City Times has published a review of Lisa Schrenk’s Building a Century of Progress: the Architecture of Chicago’s 1933-34 World’s Fair“.
Schrenk explores many other aspects of the fair: its creative funding and creative advertising, its aim to encourage public consumption of mass produced products, the concepts of prefabricated and disposable architecture as a […]
I found this quote from Edgar Kaufmann, jr. on Fallingwater:
It has served well as a house, yet has always been more than that, a work of art beyond any ordinary measure of excellence. Itself an ever-flowing source of exhilaration, it is set on the waterfall of Bear Run, spouting nature’s endless energy and grace. House […]
I never liked John Silber, but I never though he was a moron.
Silly me.
From the Wall Street Journal review of his new book Architecture of the Absurd:
And he loves Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater, in rural Pennsylvania, even though he sees that its disastrous structural flaws — the seeming wish of its cantilevers, dramatically […]
You’ve got a Wright-loving friend that needs a Christmas gift. Your friend has a Frank Lloyd Wright-shaped space under their Christmas tree.
Luckily for you — and your friend — the Newsblog is here in your darkest hour of yule-time need. The First Annual Frank Lloyd Wright Newsblog Christmas Gift Guide is here. By the […]
I had to kill sometime in a bookstore yesterday (oh, the unimaginable hell inhabited by the unemployed) and I spent some time in a comfy chair with Frank Lloyd Wright in New York. If I had a book budget (oh, the unimaginable hell inhabited by the unemployed), this would be my next purchase — and […]
Admittedly, my annoyance threshold is lower than it used to be (losing a career because of a bunch of borderline criminal sub-prime loans will do that), but I’m thinking that an acclaimed writer should be just a bit more careful with the English language:
The Capital Times: How was doing the research? People obviously devote their […]