Books like In the cause of architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright by Frank Lloyd Wright

David McCullough chronicles the daring brothers who, in 1903, achieved the first human‑powered flight on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, revealing their ingenuity, determination, and the family support that drove their success.

A curated anthology of 21 key writings by Frank Lloyd Wright, covering 1900‑1930s, alongside a concise biography, explanatory notes, and an annotated bibliography, making it an ideal introduction to his ideas for students of architecture.

Based on the touring exhibition of the same name, this illustrated volume contains two parts: quotations from Wright, accompanied by 151 illustrations of his work; and a collection of five critical essays on his contribution to architecture.--From publisher description.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s autobiography traces his life from childhood in the Midwest, through his apprenticeship with Louis Sullivan and the destruction of Taliesin, to his pioneering designs and the founding of the Taliesin Fellowship.

"Louis Kahn is perhaps the most important architect to emerge in the decades following World War II. In this book Sarah Williams Goldhagen dismantles the myths that have cast Kahn variously as a mystical neo-Platonist, a structural rationalist, a visionary champion of Beaux-Arts principles, or a rebel against modernism. She demonstrates instead that Kahn's architecture is grounded in his deeply held modernist political, social, and artistic ideals, which guided him as he sought to rework modernism into a socially transformative architecture appropriate for the postwar world.". "Goldhagen presents much new archival evidence about Kahn's buildings, his ideas, and his indebtedness to contemporary art and to the many socio-critical and architectural discourses of the postwar years. She offers fresh interpretations of many of his important buildings, including the Yale University Art Gallery and the National Assembly complex in Bangladesh, as well as of such previously understudied or misunderstood works as the Trenton Bathhouse and his AFL Medical Services building in Philadelphia. Goldhagen then theorizes Kahn's architectural principles to show that he struggled with modernism rather than against it, reconceptualizing it into a singular and powerful new vocabulary that retains architectural and social relevance today."--BOOK JACKET.