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Dover Architecture Ser.: Years with Frank Lloyd Wright : Apprentice to Genius by Edgar Tafel (2012, Trade Paperback, Reprint)

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From the special vantage point of a former apprentice who for nine years lived and worked under "the fury and wrath of genius," Edgar Tafel presents a wonderfully revealing portrait of America's greatest architect. Unpredictable, cantankerous, a striking figure with white hair, cape and cane, Frank Lloyd Wright was an individualistic spirit who delighted in acting out his own myth. Here is an intimate view of the many moods of Wright the man, warts and all, the inspired teacher, and the creative visionary, by a devoted student who came to know him as few others have. Now a successful architect in his own right, Tafel takes us back to 1932 and the early years of the Taliesin Fellowship when a group of promising young apprentices gathered in Spring Green, Wisconsin, to be near the 65-year-old master and work at his elbow. We are privy to the incredible richness and diversity of Wright's thinking, his passion for artistic truth and devotion to the cause of architecture, his unfailing creative surges, as well as to his eccentricities and fascinating details about life at Taliesin. We see genius at close range as he designs the most famous house of the twentieth century. Fallingwater, the magnificent Johnson Wax Building and Wingspread; as he ceaselessly tinkers with his designs, all the while proclaiming his organic theories of architecture; as he badgers, bullies, awes and inspires a generation of young architects. Tafel's memoir provides us with a rare view of the man who considered his chief mission in life to create a genuinely American architecture and style of living, wholly personal and original. Here are illuminating anecdotes about his Prairie house and Oak Park periods, his disdain for the Bauhaus school and its leading practitioners, his total immersion in the design and construction of the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, his romance with concrete, his efforts to develop the practical "Usonian homes," and much else. It is also an enlightening summary of the facts and forces which influenced the history of American architecture. Written with affection and admiration, and enhanced with over 300 photographs -- many never before published -- Years with Frank Lloyd Wright offers an unusually candid portrait of the brilliant, eccentric genius who charted a new course for modern architecture.

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Publisher
Dover Publications, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0486248011
ISBN-13
9780486248011
eBay Product ID (ePID)
507461

Product Key Features

Book Title
Years with Frank Lloyd Wright : Apprentice to Genius
Author
Edgar Tafel
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Features
Reprint
Topic
General, Individual Architects & Firms / General
Publication Year
2012
Genre
Architecture
Number of Pages
240 Pages

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Item Length
11in
Item Width
8.3in
Item Weight
22.3 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Na737.W7a2 1985
Edition Description
Reprint
Copyright Date
1985
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
84-021210
Dewey Decimal
720/.92/4 B
Series
Dover Architecture Ser.
Dewey Edition
19
Illustrated
Yes

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As I am the proud owner of an Edgar Tafel designed house in Racine,WI. I found the book to be an enormously insightful look inside the master and student relationship in both design and relationship with Frank Lloyd Wright.
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