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Frank Lloyd Wright is known as the architect of an enduring modern American vision, but was himself extremely well-travelled, with journeys to far-flung corners of the world serving as opportunities to develop and promote his globalising ‘organic’ philosophy. Visits to Japan and Germany informed his Prairie House period, his Usonian manifesto was presented in Russia and the UK, and later he spent time in Italy and the Middle East during his Legacy period. Gwyn Lloyd Jones retraces Lloyd Wright’s footsteps in a fascinating globetrotting narrative that reveals Lloyd Wright’s architectural legacy as having emerged from what was, at the time, a newly globalised era of architectural production. Along the way the author meets the people who are living with and experiencing Lloyd Wright’s ‘organic’ architecture today and asks whether the buildings remain true to Lloyd Wright’s intent and what it is that makes them unique. Beautifully illustrated with Lloyd Wright’s own sketches and photographs, as well as historical photographs of his original journeys and designs, this book offers an original and contemporary view of the ambitions and lasting legacy of the first ‘global architect’.

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Dr Gwyn Lloyd Jones is a practising architect based in London and Wales. He gained his doctorate, ‘Frank Lloyd Wright beyond America’, at Westminster University, where he also is a visiting lecturer. Gwyn is particularly interested in developing new narratives for exploring architecture and has spoken about Wright at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and the Welsh National Assembly. In 2009 he was the recipient of the Giles Worsley Travel Fellowship to the British School in Rome where he undertook research into Frank Lloyd Wright’s influence in Italy. His architectural Diploma dissertation at Oxford Brookes University entitled ‘12 Part Narrative’ followed Wright’s yearly migration between Taliesin North and Taliesin West. The dissertation was the inaugural winner of the RIBA President’s Dissertation Medal and he subsequently wrote and presented a television programme entitled Y Daith yw’r Stori (The Journey is the Story) for S4C (Welsh Channel 4).

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