Frank Lloyd Wright   Japan   Since His first visit to Japan in 1905, Frank Lloyd Wright was an avid collector of Japanese art. The commission for the Imperial Hotel allowed him to express his deep admiration for Nipponese culture. The challenge was twofold: on one hand was the

Frank Lloyd Wright   United States   During his dramatic flight to Europe in 1909, Frank Lloyd Wright had been impressed by the leisurely outdoor culture of the German and Austrian Biergärten. His friend Ed Waller, Jr., who shared this sentiment, suggested that Wright design just such a

Frank Lloyd Wright   United States   The robie House is the culmination of an entire era in the career and life of Frank Lloyd Wright. His built work of the two decades flanking 1900 sufficed to earn him a place in history as a great architect; fortunately, he still had energy and ideas

Frank Lloyd Wright   United States   The Larkin Building is a mythical piece of modern architecture. Part of the myth is due to the radical innovations in both its formal composition and its functional and technical solutions. Yet the myth consolidated only when the building was razed i

Frank Lloyd Wright   United States   Within the interpretation of his own genius as demiurge of his time, Wright created his own formula to deal with religión, a mixture of Laotse with a philosophical and practical Protestant Christianism, an intelectual and aesthetic option rather than

Martin Filler   We take from the art of the past what we need. The variable posthumous reputations of even the greatest artists and the unpredictable revivals of interest in even the most obscure ones tend to reveal more about those who make revisionist assessments