{"product_id":"wright-and-new-york-the-making-of-americas-architect-9780300238853","title":"Wright and New York The Making of Americas","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA dazzling dual portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright and early twentieth-century New York, revealing the city's role in establishing the career of America's most famous architectTraces the transitive relationship of the architect and the city, as well as the genesis of the bohemian culture of the East Village.Patti Smith, New York Times Frank Lloyd Wright (18671959) took his first major trip to New York in 1909, fleeing a failed marriage and artistic stagnation. He returned a decade later, his personal life and architectural career again in crisis. Booming 1920s New York served as a refuge, but it also challenged him and resurrected his career. The city connected Wright with important clients and commissions that would harness his creative energy and define his role in modern architecture, even as the stock market crash took its toll on his benefactors.     Wright denounced New York as an unlivable prison even as he reveled in its culture. The city became an urban foil for Wright's work in t\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Anthony Alofsin’s \u003ci\u003eWright and New York \u003c\/i\u003etraces the transitive relationship of the architect and the city, as well as the genesis of the bohemian culture of the East Village.\"—Patti Smith, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Revelatory.”—Norman Weinstein, \u003ci\u003eArchitectural Record\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A painstaking research”—Luis Fernández-Galiano, \u003ci\u003eArquitectura Viva\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFinalist in the PROSE Awards Architecture and Urban Planning category, sponsored by the Association of American Publishers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Anthony Alofsin engagingly examines Frank Lloyd Wright’s previously unexplored relationship with New York City and the influence one had over the other. Illuminating an atmosphere of turbulent change and a burgeoning bohemian culture, this is the perfect book to read when navigating a city that seems, more than ever, a victim of heartless reconstruction.”—Patti Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A watershed investigation of Wright’s life in the 1920s, when he landed, adrift, in New York. The city proved antagonistic, irresistibly so, and transformed him. Alofsin’s erudition, compelling prose, and first-rate detective work will alter how you perceive both Wright and Manhattan.”—Judith Dupré, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eSkyscrapers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Alofsin chronicles the relationship between America’s greatest architect and its greatest city with the precision of a detective, the perspective of a historian, and the flair of a novelist.\"—Thomas Mellins, author of \u003ci\u003eNew York 1930\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e: Architecture and Urbanism Between the Two World Wars\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49401552240983,"sku":"9780300238853","price":26.12,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780300238853.jpg?v=1730477778","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/wright-and-new-york-the-making-of-americas-architect-9780300238853","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}