Ten Letters from Frank Lloyd Wright to Charles Robert Ashbee
1970; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 13; Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/1568314
ISSN2059-5670
AutoresAlan Crawford, Frank Lloyd Wright, C. R. Ashbee,
Tópico(s)Technology, Environment, Urban Planning
ResumoThe friendship between Frank Lloyd Wright and Charles Robert Ashbee [Fig. 40a] has often been noticed in connection with Ashbee’s introduction to Frank Lloyd Wright: Ausgefuhrte Bauten. The following letters, found in Ashbee’s journals, add to our knowledge of this friendship; and perhaps to a sense of its intellectual complexity. Ashbee first met Wright at some time in late November or early December 1900. He was impressed, and wrote in his journal: Wright is to my thinking far & away the ablest man in our line of work that I have come across in Chicago, perhaps in America. He not only has ideas, but the power of expressing them, & his Husser house over which he took me, showing me every detail with the keenest delight, is one of the most beautiful and the most individual of creations that I have seen in America. He threw down the glove to me in characteristic Chicagoan manner in the matter of Arts & Crafts & the creations of the machine.
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