This is the first book devoted to Frank Lloyd Wrights designs for remaking the modern city. Stunningly comprehensive, The Urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright presents a radically new interpretation of the architects work and offers new and important perspectives on the history of modernism. Neil Levine places Wrights projects, produced over more than fifty years, within their historical, cultural, and physical contexts, while relating them to the theory and practice of urbanism as it evolved over the twentieth century. Lavishly illustrated with drawings, plans, maps, and photographs, this book features the first extensive new photography of materials from the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives. The Urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright will serve as one of the most important books on the architect for years to come.

"Levine's scholarship has been distinguished by encyclopedic thoroughness in research and an exquisitely sensitive reading of drawings and designs. Both are on display here. . . . Taken collectively, these studies constitute a coherent body of thought about the city and city planning, and establish Wright as a crucial figure in modern urbanism. . . . The sheer density of the historical research sets a high bar for future scholars; Levine's ten chapters are in essence ten monographs. And yet despite the prodigious amount of factual material, it is presented briskly and elegantly, and with high literary standards. This is revisionism of the best sort, written not to debunk or discredit, but to scrape away the long accumulated residue of myth and simplification. A scholar who has read this book will not be able to teach Wright in the same way."---Michael Lewis, Art Inquiries

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Neil Levine

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This is the first book devoted to Frank Lloyd Wright's designs for remaking the modern city. Stunningly comprehensive, The Urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright presents a radically new interpretation of the architect's work and offers new and important perspectives on the history of modernism. Neil Levine places Wright's projects, produced over more than fifty years, within their historical, cultural, and physical contexts, while relating them to the theory and practice of urbanism as it evolved over the twentieth century. Lavishly illustrated with drawings, plans, maps, and photographs, this book features the first extensive new photography of materials from the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives. The Urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright will serve as one of the most important books on the architect for years to come.