What began as a simple letter--a mid-career architect's comments to a young writer--turned into a 32-year correspondence, by turns amusing, inflamed, and conciliatory. Frank Lloyd Wright and Lewis Mumford, two pivotal figures in 20th-century American architecture and urbanism, were both passionate writers, keenly aware of world events. Their 150 letters from 1926--1958 covered a wide range of topics, including Wright's position in the history of American architecture and contemporary practice, their friends and rivals, the invention and spread of the International Style, and political events in Europe and the US. A fallout over isolationist politics in the early 1940s led to a 10-year gap in their exchange, and when it resumed, the two were on an entirely different footing: Wright, the elder dean of American architecture at the height of his creative powers, and Mumford, an established critic in late middle age deeply committed to rebuilding a humanist outlook in the aftermath of World War II. Frank Lloyd Wright & Lewis Mumford offers an intimate look inside the minds and hearts of these two cultural giants, deepening our understanding of the men and the society they helped shape.
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Robert Wojtowicz is the literary executor of the Lewis Mumford estate and an associate professor of art history at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.
Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer is Director of the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives at the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Taliesin West, in Scottsdale, AZ.
Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer is Director of the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives at the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Taliesin West, in Scottsdale, AZ.
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When Frank Lloyd Wright sent his first letter to Lewis Mumford in August 1926, the former was a world-renowned architect in mid-career, plagued by a series of personal and financial setbacks, while the letter was an on-the-rise cultural critic, eager to stake out a wide intellectual terrain. Read the first page
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When Frank Lloyd Wright sent his first letter to Lewis Mumford in August 1926, the former was a world-renowned architect in mid-career, plagued by a series of personal and financial setbacks, while the letter was an on-the-rise cultural critic, eager to stake out a wide intellectual terrain. Read the first page
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This correspondence between two of the twentieth century's most important minds in architecture is outstanding. It helps to highlight the degree to which pre-WWII discussions about the future of American society were rich and creative.
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