![]() Examples include a model farm, a school for African American children in Virginia, a country club, and a “mile-high skyscraper.” Bergdoll, Gray, and fourteen other scholars discuss select archival objects in the accompanying catalogue, addressing the care needed to preserve Wright’s legacy, questions of authorship, and the architect’s brilliant gift for self-promotion. ![]() Guggenheim Museum (1959)rendered in glorious drawings and superbly restored models, lesser-known (and largely unbuilt) projects, critically framed within their historical contexts, will also be represented. ![]() While visitors will find many celebrated masterpiecessuch as Fallingwater (1937), the Johnson Wax Administration Building (1939), and the Solomon R. Frank Lloyd Wright: Unpacking the Archive Wright, Frank Lloyd Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art Binding: Hardcover Measurements: 25.00 x 31.00 cm Published for a major exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, this catalog reveals new perspectives on the work of Frank Lloyd Wright. The museum’s tenth show of Wright’s designs, “Unpacking the Archive” will be its largest, comprising some 450 pieces in various media. Siry Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2020) 79 (3): 340343. MoMA’s exhibition on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Frank Lloyd Wright’s birth also celebrates the institution’s 2012 joint acquisition, with Columbia University’s Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, of Wright’s vast archive. Frank Lloyd Wright: Unpacking the Archive New York : Museum of Modern Art, 2017, 256 pp., 222 color and 52 b/w illus. ![]() Curated by Barry Bergdoll with Jennifer Gray ![]()
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