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Studies & Executed Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright Hardcover – January 15, 1990
- Print length122 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherRizzoli
- Publication dateJanuary 15, 1990
- ISBN-100847806871
- ISBN-13978-0847806874
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- Publisher : Rizzoli; First Edition (January 15, 1990)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 122 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0847806871
- ISBN-13 : 978-0847806874
- Item Weight : 3.2 pounds
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,631,676 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,468 in Architecture Reference (Books)
- #12,011 in Architecture (Books)
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Anthony Alofsin, FAIA, is an architect, artist, art historian, writer, and professor. He was educated at Andover, Harvard, and Columbia University. Alofsin is recognized as one of the world's leading authorities on the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright and as an expert on modern architecture. His research and writing on Wright's first travels to Europe have defined the life and work of the architect in the 1910s. In 2017 he was named a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, one of the highest awards the profession grants. His new book, Wright and New York: the Making of America's Architect, was published by Yale University Press in May, 2019.
In 2006, Alofsin received the Wright Spirit Award from the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy. The award honors an individual who, through artistic, architectural, scholarly, professional or other endeavors embodies the spirit of Frank Lloyd Wright. He is the author of Frank Lloyd Wright, Art Collector (April 2012). He is editor of Prairie Skyscraper: Frank Lloyd Wright's Price Tower and Frank Lloyd Wright: Europe and Beyond, and he has written a new introduction to Frank Lloyd Wright's famous Wasmuth folios, Ausgeführte Bauten und Entwürfe, which appeared in English, German, and Italian editions. His published works include the introduction to Frank Lloyd Wright's Fifty Views of Japan: the 1905 Photograph Album. His pioneering study, Frank Lloyd Wright: the Lost Years, 1910-1922, is acknowledged to be one of the most important books on Wright in the last forty years; the book was a winner in the monograph category in the American Institute of Architects International Book Awards. Alofsin's other publications include the five-volume reference work, Frank Lloyd Wright: An Index to the Taliesin Correspondence, which won the Vasari Award of the Dallas Museum of Art; it has become an invaluable reference tool for Wright scholars and researchers the world over.
His book When Buildings Speak: Architecture as Language in the Habsburg Empire and its Aftermath, 1867-1933 won the Vasari Award from the Dallas Museum of Art; a German language edition appeared in 2011. From 1992-1996 he originated and directed the research project "A Tense Alliance: Architecture in the Habsburg Lands, 1893-1928," an international collaboration among scholars in Central Europe and North America who conducted original field research on modernism and nationalism throughout the former Austro-Hungarian Empire. He is editor of A Modernist Museum in Perspective: The East Building, National Gallery of Art. He is the author The Struggle for Modernism: Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and City Planning at Harvard, the history of the Harvard Graduate School of Design from its beginnings through the 1960s. His book reviews and essays have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, The Burlington Magazine, and The New Criterion. His first work of fiction, Halflife was published in January, 2009.
He has been named a Fellow, Helen R. Whiteley Center, Friday Harbor, Washington; Fellow, Bogliasco Foundation, Liguria Study Center for the Arts and Humanities; Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C; Fellow, MacDowell Colony; Fellow, the Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, Vienna; Visiting Scholar, the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation; Visiting Fellow, Harvard Graduate School of Design; and Fulbright Professor, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.
Alofsin was ranked internationally "Best of the Best" and in the 90th percentile of research professors, academics, and dons by the Key Centre for Architectural Sociology.
He has also been active as a curator and adviser to several architectural exhibitions. He was consulting curator for the major retrospective "Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He curated "Prairie Skyscraper" on Wright's Price Tower in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, and the exhibition "Wright's Wasmuth Folios: Representing the Ideal," at the Ross Gallery, Columbia University.
He maintains an architectural practice and his projects, which range in scale and style, have been frequently published. The sites of his projects include New Mexico, New York, and Texas. He also lectures internationally and is the Roland Roessner Centennial Professor Emeritus in Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin where he founded and directed the Ph.D. program in architectural history.
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- Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2024It is the reprint of the 1910 Wasmuth Portfolio from 1990. The copy I received was used and was once a library book. It is in great shape with very, very minimal wear. There was one page that had a creased corner, but it really does not affect anything. And of course there were some stickers from the library it was in on the inside of the back cover, but once again, it really does not affect anything. The book is gorgeous and a great item to add to my collection of architecture books. It is in the original German with a dictionary in the front so you can understand the titles on the drawings and the labels on each space in a floorplan.
- Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2022This is an excellent complement to the original, and a testament to Wrights enduring genius.
- Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2018A very hard to find copy, Glad to have it in my collection.Thanks!
- Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2013Reprint of the portfolio edition of 100 lithographs published in 1910 by verlag Ernst Wasmuth A.G., Berlin, format 64 x 40 cm (25 1/4" x 15 3/4").
The introductory test and the annotations, written in English by Frank Lloyd Wright, are reproduced as in the original text.
The numbers in [ ] correspond to the numbering system of the original sheets and are used to facilitate crossreference between the annotations and the drawings, which are mostly numbered using roman numerals.
The red square on the dust jacket is a trademark belonging to the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Taliesin West, Scottsdale, AZ.
Forward by Vincent Scully, pages 5 through 8
Frank Lloyd Wright
Studies and Executed Buildings, pages 9 through 16
Descriptions of the Plates, pages 17 through 20
Glossary, page 21
Plates, pages [1-100]
- Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 1997This book is the only complete and accurate reproduction of Wright's 1910 treatise "Ausgefurte Bauten und Entwurfe von Frank LLoyd Wright" (the Wasmuth Portfolio.) Although it is reduced in size, all plates are listed by their original roman numerals with the German text. It is the only useful refernece when researching the wasmuth portfolio. Neither the Dover edition nor the Horizon Press edition reproduced the plates without renumbering them in some fashion. This book is a must for any dealer or collector interested in acquiring the Wasmuth Portfolio.