Frank Lloyd Wright: The Architecture of Defiance

The story of Frank Lloyd Wright’s life is no less astounding than his greatest architectural works. He enmeshed himself eagerly in myth and hearsay, and revelled in the extravagance of his creative persona. Throughout his long career, Wright strongly resisted the suggestion that his accomplishments owed anything to earthly influences. As much as he wanted his achievements to be recognised, he wanted them to be unaccountable – but they are not. This book reveals for the first time how his unbreakable self-belief and startling creative defiance both originated in the liberal religious and philosophical attitudes woven into his personality during his childhood – deliberately so by his mother and by his many aunts and uncles, to honour the fierce Welsh radicalism of their ancestors.Additional ISBNs9781786839145Frank Lloyd Wright: The Architecture of Defiance 1st Edition is written by Jonathan Adams and published by University of Wales Press. ISBNs for Frank Lloyd Wright are 9781786839152, 1786839156 and the print ISBNs are 9781786839138, 178683913X. Additional ISBNs include 9781786839145.