Read the book and discuss the reason to success and factor
Read the book architecture’s odd couple by Hugh Howard Then to discuss how and why individuals became successful and the wtiter ‘s voice in evidence.. Make sure follow the essay rubric . All the work should be original. At least 2 page
In a celebrity-obsessed culture, architects
Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson
may be perfect subjects for a dual biography.
Both used their own residences as laboratories
for experimentation, had brushes with
anti-Semitism, and in their savvy pursuit
of publicity, appeared on the cover of Time
magazine (Wright in 1938 gazing upward
before a rendering of Fallingwater; Johnson
in 1979 cradling in his arms a model
of the AT&T Building). Yet with over 66
Wright biographies and Franz Schulze’s definitive
Philip Johnson: Life and Work, what
does pairing an exceptional innovator with a
clever adapter add to our design knowledge?
Here Howard (Mr. and Mrs. Madison’s War)
begins with Schulze’s claim that the two
distrusted each other, but with a full generation
separating them, were they really competitors?
Both “placed architecture at the
center of culture,” but are there any noted
architects who would claim less? Unlike
Leonard K. Eaton’s Two Chicago Architects
and Their Clients, an astute comparison of
the clients of Wright and one of his contemporaries,
Howard’s account reads more like
well- researched historical fiction than architectural
history, and with the paucity of illustrations,
readers must rely on the author’s
competent verbal descriptions for a sense of
the buildings. VERDICT For public library
collections with sizable biography sections.—
Paul Glassman, Yeshiva Univ. Libs., New York
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Architecture’s Odd Couple
Frank Lloyd Wright and Phillip Johnson came to the limelight as architecture’s ‘odd couple’ considering the differences in their approaches and the fact that they also represented separate generations of art and architecture. Primarily, it was their artistic rivalry, sometimes mixed with personal differences that inspired the sense of critique and admiration that culminated into the emergence of postmodernism. One aspect of their work that separated them was that while Wright was an idealist, Johnson was rather an opportunist that mimicked a showman in his approach.
Prior to the MOMA exhibition, most architecture was typical involving the post and lintel styles and praire houses.
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