Man about Town: Frank Lloyd Wright in New York City

by Herbert Muschamp

Book Overview

Frank Lloyd Wright often expressed a passionate contempt for America's great cities, reserving a special wrath for New York. And yet, as Herbert Muschamp argues with verve and conviction in this book, Gotham played a vital part in shaping Wright's "second career" galvanizing the architect's energies after the scandal-ridden decades during which he built almost nothing. Man About Town describes Wright's Broadacre City proposals and includes photographs...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262131927
• ISBN13: 9780262131926
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.