Word: wrighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Frank Lloyd Wright Revival seems to be in the making. Exhibitions, symposia and books on the master's volcanic life and titanic work proliferate. One of Wright's two "Tree of Life" stained-glass doors brought $110,000 at Christie's in New York City in May, a record for an American stained-glass panel. Starting next week, 100 of his architectural drawings will be offered at Manhattan's Max Protetch Gallery for $7,000 and up. Wright buildings from coast to coast are being devoutly restored, the most important of them his first Home...
...three decades ago, Americans regarded Wright (1867-1959) as their greatest architect mostly because of the furious stunts with which he reacted to the International Style-his spiraled Guggenheim Museum in New York City or his proposal to build a mile-high skyscraper in Illinois. The present revival, however, focuses on Wright's early domestic architecture, his houses and, significantly, their interior designs. Last year the Metropolitan Museum placed the reconstructed living room of his Francis Little House (1912-14) of Wayzata, Minn., on permanent display, joining the Temple of Dendur and other landmarks of the march of civilization...
This aspect of Wright's work is exemplified in "Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School," a show of more than 250 furnishings, drawings, photographs and documents that opened last week at New York City's Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian Institution's national museum of design. The exhibition, which will run until Dec. 31, is an almost intimately informal survey of Wright's brilliant beginnings, from his tracing of a Louis Sullivan ornament in 1892 to his drawings for the Dorothy Martin Foster House in Buffalo in 1923, which marked a new direction...
...Wright started not with a style but with an idea, a Weltanschauung, a principle, which he called "organic architecture." What he meant by it was that humans are part of nature, subject to the laws, rhythms and mysteries of nature and happiest if they live in harmony with it, and their dwellings should reflect this unity inside and out. Wright's canon of organic design (which, being a loquacious and somewhat argumentative man, he often confused and even contradicted) is no Thoreauvian Utopia. He shared the American faith of his time in the blessings of technology. "This thing...
This reciprocal inspiration was replayed in the 1950s, when the Japanese resurrected their industry and invited such leading American industrial designers as Russel Wright and Jay Doblin to teach them modern design. Now Japanese architects and designers are returning the visit...