![]() It shows in his salesmanship, which lay behind his drawings and press events. It shows in his egotism and optimism, even in the face of the Great Depression. I contain multitudes." Wright was no Walt Whitman, but he was distinctly American. "Do I contradict myself? Very well, I contradict myself. I felt its pleasures and its regrets, but also one huge sigh of relief. " Never Built New York" at the Queens Museum presents an imagined city and a torrent of ideas. Then again, some things should never come to be. If there is one lesson in the hundreds of unbuilt projects in the archives, it is this. With some four hundred objects at MoMA alone, it can feel congested and unchecked, but it dares anyone to tease out the multiplicity.Įven great architects have to get things built. ![]() " Unpacking the Archive," with a follow-up on Wright and public housing at Columbia, will have you doing the same. Five years after their acquisition, the Museum of Modern Art and Columbia University are still sorting them out for Wright at 150. He left hundreds of thousands of drawings and other records along the way. He designed more than a thousand buildings in the course of seventy years, roughly half of them built. He hated congestion and unchecked growth-but he never, ever shied away from contradictions.įrank Lloyd Wright contained multitudes. He found the loss of light and open space soul deadening. The architect of a mile-high building sought to rein in skyscrapers. ![]() In New York City Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive Never Built New York and Wright, Harlem, and Public Housing
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