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As Klinkowitz shows, Wright's thought is deeply visionary. It deploys its challenging truths against an ossified present, in the name of a spatial philosophy critical of both pre-modern ornamentalism and of modernism's standardization and keen, instead, on the values of fluidity, eco-architectural, organic integration, cross-culturally allusive and decentered design, inside-outside unity, and democratic geometry. --Christian Moraru, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

"As Klinkowitz shows, Wright's thought is deeply visionary. It deploys its challenging truths against an ossified present, in the name of a spatial philosophy critical of both pre-modern ornamentalism and of modernism's standardization and keen, instead, on the values of fluidity, eco-architectural, organic integration, cross-culturally allusive and decentered design, inside-outside unity, and democratic geometry.--Christian Moraru, University of North Carolina at Greensboro ""[This] is not a retelling of a history we already know. . . . It is not just a book about architecture but about [Wright's] manner of thought and the way it influenced, or has been influenced by, American culture. . . . It offers new and exciting insights.""--Journal of the Taliesin Fellows ""Exactly what is needed to examine the popular architect and societal figure from a completely new perspective. . . . Engaging, informative, and thought-provoking.""--American Studies ""That Frank Lloyd Wright was his own greatest creation is a truism rendered all the more defensible with this critique of the architect's collected writings. . . . [Klinkowitz] engages the buildings of this design genius--not as products of mere biographical or historical happenstance, but through penetrating analyses of the compositions themselves . . . demonstrating that, whether expressing himself in concrete or abstract terms, Wright was the most principle architect-philosopher of modern times. Recommended; general readers and lower-level undergraduates and above.""--Choice ""The complexity of [Wright's] thinking, both as an architect and as a philosopher of the aesthetic, was astounding, and Klinkowitz has done a splendid job of tracing these multiple byways and illuminating the final achievements. . . . A notable contribution to both architectural and cultural history.""--Library Journal"

As Klinkowitz shows, Wright's thought is deeply visionary. It deploys its challenging truths against an ossified present, in the name of a spatial philosophy critical of both pre-modern ornamentalism and of modernism's standardization and keen, instead, on the values of fluidity, eco-architectural, organic integration, cross-culturally allusive and decentered design, inside-outside unity, and democratic geometry. --Christian Moraru, University of North Carolina at Greensboro As Klinkowitz shows, Wright s thought is deeply visionary. It deploys its challenging truths against an ossified present, in the name of a spatial philosophy critical of both pre-modern ornamentalism and of modernism s standardization and keen, instead, on the values of fluidity, eco-architectural, organic integration, cross-culturally allusive and decentered design, inside-outside unity, and democratic geometry. Christian Moraru, University of North Carolina at Greensboro Exactly what is needed to examine the popular architect and societal figure from a completely new perspective. . . . Engaging, informative, and thought-provoking. American Studies [This] is not a retelling of a history we already know. . . . It is not just a book about architecture but about [Wright s] manner of thought and the way it influenced, or has been influenced by, American culture. . . . It offers new and exciting insights. Journal of the Taliesin Fellows That Frank Lloyd Wright was his own greatest creation is a truism rendered all the more defensible with this critique of the architect s collected writings. . . . [Klinkowitz] engages the buildings of this design genius not as products of mere biographical or historical happenstance, but through penetrating analyses of the compositions themselves . . . demonstrating that, whether expressing himself in concrete or abstract terms, Wright was the most principle architect-philosopher of modern times. Recommended; general readers and lower-level undergraduates and above. Choice The complexity of [Wright s] thinking, both as an architect and as a philosopher of the aesthetic, was astounding, and Klinkowitz has done a splendid job of tracing these multiple byways and illuminating the final achievements. . . . A notable contribution to both architectural and cultural history. Library Journal A singularly important step in the better understanding of the context of the multifaceted, multilayered, and extremely complex genius of Frank Lloyd Wright. --Randolph C. Henning, author of Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin

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Jerome Klinkowitz is a University Distinguished Scholar and professor of English at the University of Northern Iowa. He is the author and editor of many books, including four editions of The Norton Anthology of American Literature.

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