Frank Lloyd Wright's Monona Terrace

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"What a fascinating book Mollenhoff and Hamilton have written. Monona Terrace is one of the most controversial and exciting buildings my grandfather ever designed. Their wonderfully detailed and lavishly illustrated book is a joy to read. I know my grandfather would be extremely pleased." — Eric Lloyd Wright
"The Monona Terrace project is one of Wright's most originál and important designs. . . . It is important for the study of American urbanism and city planning in generál; for what it reveals of the intimate relations between architecture and politics in the twentieth century; and for Wright's own involvement in and contribution to these questions."
— Neil Levine, author of The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright
Spectacularly illustrated and superbly documented, the full, extraordinary story of the epic 60-year-long civic battle to build one of Frank Lloyd Wright's most signifícant designs is fínally told in Frank Lloyd Wright'** Monona Terrace: The Enduring Power of a Civic... Tovább

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"What a fascinating book Mollenhoff and Hamilton have written. Monona Terrace is one of the most controversial and exciting buildings my grandfather ever designed. Their wonderfully detailed and lavishly illustrated book is a joy to read. I know my grandfather would be extremely pleased." — Eric Lloyd Wright
"The Monona Terrace project is one of Wright's most originál and important designs. . . . It is important for the study of American urbanism and city planning in generál; for what it reveals of the intimate relations between architecture and politics in the twentieth century; and for Wright's own involvement in and contribution to these questions."
— Neil Levine, author of The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright
Spectacularly illustrated and superbly documented, the full, extraordinary story of the epic 60-year-long civic battle to build one of Frank Lloyd Wright's most signifícant designs is fínally told in Frank Lloyd Wright'** Monona Terrace: The Enduring Power of a Civic Vision by Dávid V. Mollenhoff and Mary Jane Hamilton.
Monona Terrace was first conceived by Wright in 1938. He worked on this project on and off for a totál of 21 years, redesigned it 8 times, and generated more drawings and correspondence for this vision than for any of his more than 700 building commis-sions. Before this monumental structure would arise on the shore of Laké Monona, there would be 13 designs, thousands of drawings, 5 local referenda, 10 lawsuits, and several acts of the state legislature. Mollenhoff and Hamilton provide the defínitive history of the buildings design, the tempestuous relationship of Wright to his hometown of Madison, and the support for and opposition to the project.
Drawing from the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives, thousands of newspaper accounts, extensive government records, and dozens of interviews, the book alsó features more than 300 illustrations in color and black and white, including many published here for the first time. Vissza