Modern Architecture - Kahn Lectures 1930

Modern Architecture is Frank Lloyd Wright's first book outlining the principles of Organic Architecture. Loudly opposing America's architectural eclecticism, commercial skyscrapers, and misguided urban planning, this text neither falls into the trap of historical styles nor the geometric abstraction trap of machine aesthetics advocated by his contemporary European modernists.

F. L. Wright truly seeks to reconcile a culture that can be called modern with romanticism, dreams, beauty, and nature.

"When asked to write on 'The Logic of Modern Architecture,' Wright replied: 'Is the rising of the sun logical? The rising of the sun is natural, and that is better.'"

-E. Baldwin Smith-

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