Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive

摘要

This monumental exhibition of Frank Lloyd Wright's work celebrating the sesquicentennial of his birth does not disappoint either the casual visitor or the seasoned scholar. Highly anticipated, it delivers on its promise to showcase the great buildings of Wright's career alongside more obscure projects. It coincided serendipitously with the relocation of Wright's archive from the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation at Taliesin West outside Phoenix to its new home at the Avery Library's Architectural Archives at Columbia University in New York. The exposition takes the archives' transfer and contents as its premise-an unusual tactic for a retrospective-and this provides fertile ground for new avenues of investigation.