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Writing Wright’s Legacy:Edgar Kaufmann jr. on Frank Lloyd W
IDEC Conference—March 2015
Elise L. King
Assistant Professor
Baylor University
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Background
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T.C. Boyle, Franklin Toker, Fallingwater Rising, 2007Nancy Horan, Loving Frank, 2007
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Who are the major authors of Wright’s cannon
How have these authors shaped the popular perc
and narratives of Wright and his work?
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Overview
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Frank Lloyd Wright (1926)Library of Congress: LC-USZ62-36384
Kaufmann Famwww.fallingwater.org
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Research Question
and Methods
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In what ways did Edgar Kaufmann jr. [sic.] shape thconversation about Frank Lloyd Wright’s work and influe
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Literature Review
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Kaufmann’s Publications on Wright1950:
“Frank Lloyd Wright at the Strozzi.” Magazine of Art 44 (May1951): 190-192.
“Three New Buildings on the Pacific Coast.” Architecture Yearbook 4 (1952): 55-63.
“The H.C. Price Tower.” Architectural Record 119 (February 1956): 153-160.
“One Hundred Years of Significant Building.” Architectural Record 120 (October 1956): 194.
“Frank Lloyd Wright: Three New Churches.” Art in America 45 (Fall 1957): 22-25.
“Constructive Vision.” Progressive Architecture 39 (March 1958): 246, 248.
“The Form of Space for Art—Wright’s Guggenheim Museum.” Art In America 46 (1958-1959): 74-77.
“Architectural Coxcombry or The Desire for Ornament.” Perspecta 5 (1959): 5-15.
1960:
“Centrality and Symmetry in Wright’s Architecture.” Architect’s Yearbook 9 (1960):120-131.
Kaufmann & Ben Raeburn eds. Frank Lloyd Wright: Writings & Buildings. Cleveland: Meridian Books, 1960.
“Nineteenth-Century Design.” Perspecta 6 (1960): 56-67.
“Frank Lloyd Wright and the Fine Arts.” Perspecta 8 (1963): 37-42.
“Memmo’s Lodoli.” The Art Bulletin 46, no 2 (June 1964): 159-175.
“Frank Lloyd Wright’s Years of Modernism, 1925-1935.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 24, no 1 (March 1965): 31-33.
Kaufmann and Bruno Zevi eds. La Casa Sulla Cascata di F. Ll. Wright. Milan: Et AKompass, 1965.
“The Usonian Pope-Leighey House.” Historic Preservation 17 (May-June 1965): 96-97. 71.
“Crisis and Creativity: Frank Lloyd Wright, 1904-1914.” JSAH 25, no 4 (December 1966): 292-296.
“Design: Sans Peur et sans Resources.” The Architectural Forum 125, no 2 (September 1966): 68-70.
“Frank Lloyd Wright: The Eleventh Decade.” Architectural Forum 130, no 5 (June 1969): 38-41.
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“Environment Is an Art.” JSAH 28, no 8 (April 1970): 321-330.
“Viewpoints: A series of interviews with architects, i nterior designethe design scene.” Interior Design 43, no 9 (September 1972)
“The Arts and Crafts: Reactionary or Progressive?” Record of the A 2 (1975): 6-12.
“Frank Lloyd Wright: Plasticity, Continuity, and Ornament.” JSAH 3
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“Precedent and Progress in the Work of Frank Lloyd Wright.” JSAH
“’Form Became Feeling,’ a New View of Froebel and Wright.” JSA
“Frank Lloyd Wright’s Mementos of Childhood.” JSAH 41, no 3 (
Frank Lloyd Wright at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: T
Fallingwater: A Frank Lloyd Wright Country House. New York: Abb
“How Wright was Wright.” House and Garden 158, no 8 (August 1
9 Commentaries on Frank Lloyd Wright. Cambridge, Massachuset
Books
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Fallingwater(1936)
Wright Dies(1959)
Taliesin(1911)
Taliesin West(1937)
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Robie House(1909)
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Kaufmann’s Writings:Major Themes/Concepts
• Contemporize Wright
• Translate Wright’s architecture and verbiage
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Contemporize
• Indeterminacy“Design sans peur et sans ressources”
“Frank Lloyd Wright: The Eleventh Decade” (1969)
• Systems“The Usonian Pope-Leighey House” (1965)
“Plasticity, Continuity, and Ornament” (1978)
Frank Lloyd Wright Country House (1968)
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-Kaufmann “Plasticity, Continuity, and Ornament”
“Wright’s statements have character and direction, but hobscured the underlying thought in turgid, inconsistent ph
“Translate”“Plasticity, Continuity, and Ornament” (1978)
9 Commentaries on Frank Lloyd Wright (1989)
The Non-Residential Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright (1995)
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Fallingwater
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-Edgar Kaufmann jr.Entrusting Fallingwater to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy
October 1963
“Conservation is not preservation: preservation is stoppingserve a future contingency; conservation is keeping life g
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• Only major Wright-designed house to open to the public wfurnishings, artwork, and setting intact
• More than 4.5 million visitors
• One of the most recognizable Wright works
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Summary
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Conclusions
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• Bias towards the later portion of Wright’s career
• Responsible for defining and translating important Wrightiaconcepts
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Carefully crafted the Fallingwater experience