弗兰克·劳埃德· :/赖特:建筑美国之人
剧情简介
Frank L:\loyd Wright *i s ==*America['s gr@ea=test-ever ar:chi ($t`!ect. Howev#\_er, few peopl?`e`:.@% [$know #about%/ )^?the Welsh r^oo\-ts that.= _shap;(ed his life a[nd wo,:[rl d-famous buil#:ding/(s. Now, leading (:`Wels h= //ar )chitect Jonathan Ad.a!ms sets off across Am!: erica \:=to explor e ,Frank Lloyd Wr\$ight's maste $ rp $@ieces for himself. Along the way, he uncove+/+rs t )\-he t: em`pestuo+u!,s l \ife story )-of-: the\ ?man behind the$m a =nd the signif+=ica- nc/e of his radi$cal;/` family[ backgr[+^ound. I] n a ca)(r]*eer !+spannin,g seven decades, Frank Ll.oyd @Wright bu?/#ilt over 500 bu\*i%;ldings, and *changed the face of`` modern archi_.@te *ctur,=e: Fallingwater, the house ov](er the wate?rfa :ll,# has +]$`)been! ca: lled the greatest hou/-se of the% 20 th century the! spirall?,ing Guggenh eim Muse^?)um in New+[/*$ Y[ork reinvented the- art museum the concr e@te Unity Temple: =was the f@% ,irst ]-?truly mo(dern build:ing in the wor((,ld. But the underly:(ing ph@il!`os;:ophy ?/that l;@inks all Wrigh^t's b?uildi[=ngs is as.\[ im^portant as anyth?#)ing he[: built. Tho- _s ) e id[eas w$ :e.`re r[ooted in the U_nitarian _rel(_-igion of Fran#+^k L\loyd Wright&`/[#39s` mot=her. Anna L%`loyd=+#_ J(:$ones was,^) born and raise d near Ll@andysul in w]$est Wale s [+and migrated/ to [_America w ;]ith her [ fam)/ ily i! n 18= 44, most like !$ly[) to escape$` re ;+_ligious pe*/-rsecution. Her son(:, Fran[k, was`( r.) aised [ in a U _)nitarian? com#munity in Wisco ns$in, a @:s/+$mall piece of Wa#l)^es in America.%_ The` valu_ es-\ he = absorb/`ed th?^ere !w%*e re based on- -@the sanctity \-of nature, the i$:[mpo*`rt%-.ance of har:d .\=work,) and the need to ;question convention an_:=d d ;efy -::i_?_t wh/ere necessar(? y. $(Wright&$ ^#3=;9s ar c%%hi[ te*@ =c^]ture wa#s shaped by((,] and @ /express ed), th;%es e beliefs. Frank Lloyd Wrig?ht ^ set out to create a-;\, new America )n archit[.ec ture !for a n:ew country. He built his own lifelong home i?. n the valley he w-/#*as `rai sed in, and he nam$:\,ed it af_#ter _an ancient Welsh bard called T]/al;+(iesin]. It_ was ,`(the s cene o[f many adven!\?tu?^%res - and a hor?+ rif ic_. cri]]#;me .? , In 1914, +!! a se*.rvant *at ^#!Talies^)in ran ^ amok [$and killed se]]v.en ,people includin)\g Wright::;'s partner,;,\=- Mamah [Cheney, and]$ her two`, young children.; [ %Wrig h- t r/(ebuilt h$+is h=ome a.)nd w,)ent on to mar;ry a .M ont;enegrin woma:)n, O)!lgivanna Milanoff, some 30 yea[,rs you*nger than ?h).^i[m. I?:t was Olgivanna wh+! o struck u$pon the idea that saved Wrigh_t's career after%( _t ,/he Wall St/!%reet Crash and:? per)sona(/l scandal $)l aid it low. She decid#e , d that her hu#?;sband sho.+@uld\ take on apprentic(#e + !s )` -#a%/(nd that;+ ^ *t!he ap# p) )r entices shou$ *ld pay for /t/he ^ pr=+ivilege. The Tal,iesi[\-n Fellowship had a hands-on,+ ap![proa -ch:, with $apprentices ofte n */,building extensions to Wright'`^.%s )own hou=:=ses, la/ bou.(:ring and;? cooking fo=^r hi m. Somehow it worked, la_\sting fo_r decades an`d nurturing / hun%%d?reds +of )_you^/ng tal \!ents. Fran)\-(k `?Lloy d Wrigh$!^t died !i-`_n 1959 aged-? 91* wh-ile working on his f?inal m *as% `terpie%ce, Ne)%w Yor=^k'(-s i-#nco@-mpar;`\abl^$!``e Guggen[heim M*:u. se-um. He had been born in, the wa@_ke of the Americ? an civil \war,@ /the son of( !! a pioneer, )and die[#d a te[; l .e@(]vision celeb.^rity, in t`-h (?e #s#$pa`^ce #!a\[ge. He is buried in the sh:ad;]ow)?_) of$# Tal-iesin, alo #ngside his! Welsh ancestors. A . .150 \years after his[ birt#h__, Jon ath an ;Adams argues that/ Frank = Lloyd Wr i. ght is now a@. v,itall[#y @(;important f/igu$:re who c`-an te)^ach us ho?w t%;[@o build for a be$[tt.er world. Wr@@ight be lieved in%[ what he # =c)alled organic architecture buildings that ^/grace _th^.e la !=ndsc- !]`ape, exp#ress an idea of how to live .and \respond to ind )*ividu;al needs/. This bespoke approach -# a p!(hilosophy, not a st`\yl e - puts him at the ;- _heart of modern archite`=-ctural !@thinking.