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Bezig met laden... The Fellowship: The Untold Story of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship (editie 2007)door Roger Friedland (Auteur)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. https://archidose.blogspot.com/2006/08/book-review-fellowship.html I am flabbergasted. I trained as an architect, and we sure didn't learn about THIS side of FLW. To think I seriously looked at Taliesin West school of architecture when I was investigating programs. The man was no doubt a genius, but OMG, he must have been seriously charismatic to be able to hold his slaves/apprentices in such thrall. And his wife! She was a piece of work herself. It's honestly no wonder that his youngest daughter had mental illness. A fascinating look behind the curtain at one of the greatest architects of the 20th century. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Frank Lloyd Wright's Wisconsin estate, Taliesin, gave rise to a fascinating and provocative cultural experiment: the Taliesin Fellowship, an extraordinary architectural colony where Wright trained hundreds of devoted apprentices, while using them as the de facto architectural practice where all of his late masterpieces--Fallingwater, Johnson Wax, the Guggenheim Museum--were born. This book draws on hundreds interviews and countless documents from the Wright archives to create a portrait of Taliesin and the three mercurial figures at its center: Wright, his imperious wife Olgivanna Hinzenberg, and her spiritual master, the Greek-Armenian mystic Georgi Gurdjieff. The authors reveal how the idealistic community became a kind of fiefdom, where young apprentices were both inspired and manipulated by the architect and his wife. They trace the war of wills between Wright and Olgivanna, in which organic architecture was pitted against esoteric spiritualism in a struggle for the soul of Taliesin. They chronicle Wright's perennial battles with clients, bankers, and the government, which suspected him of both communist and fascist sympathies. And they tell the stories of Wright's devoted apprentices--many of them gay men--who found an uncertain refuge in the architect's Wisconsin and Arizona compounds, and who helped the master realize his dreamlike architectural visions, often at great personal cost.--From publisher description. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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