{"id":2737,"date":"2015-06-05T13:37:36","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T12:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/wp\/?p=2737"},"modified":"2021-11-15T13:32:19","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T13:32:19","slug":"travels-with-frank-lloyd-wright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/travels-with-frank-lloyd-wright\/","title":{"rendered":"Travels with Frank Lloyd Wright by Gwyn Lloyd Jones &#8211; review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"text-element body\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-4-3 image-review alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/img\/travels%20with%20FLW.jpg\" alt=\"frank Lloyd wright travels\" \/>This is a volume for any student of architecture who is interested in that phrase \u2018form follows function\u2019 with regard to the inspiring and revolutionary architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Gwyn Lloyd Jones retraced Frank Lloyd Wright\u2019s steps on journeys he made outside the USA. This volume considers the man along with his buildings. It\u2019s a contemporary look at Lloyd Wright and his celebrated international work.<\/p>\n<p>Lloyd Wright was well-travelled, and these six trips were undertaken to promote his \u2018organic\u2019 architecture philosophy. Gwyn Lloyd Jones starts his adventure in Japan, which is the only country outside the US where Lloyd Wright both lived and worked. He travels to Germany to explore the way Lloyd Wright\u2019s visits influenced his \u2018Prairie House\u2019 collection. He then travels to Russia and the UK, where Lloyd Wright presented his global \u2018Usonian\u2019 concept. The final two chapters look at Italy and the Middle East as part of Lloyd Wright\u2019s legacy, the last chapter having \u2018A Short Taxi Ride Around The Persian Gulf\u2019 as its amusing heading.<\/p>\n<p>Travels with Frank Lloyd Wright isn\u2019t a glossy full-colour coffee-table book. This is for those who have perhaps visited some of the buildings mentioned in the text. It\u2019s for those who want to actually understand the Lloyd Wright concept. How did he perceive the relationship between location and materials?<\/p>\n<p>The author meets people who are living with Wright\u2019s organic architecture today and he finds out whether their homes are functional and practical, and the Lloyd Wright work is contrasted with more typical architecture in the countries visited.<\/p>\n<p>This new book from Lund Humphries offers a unique view of this often controversial American architect, and in a thoroughly international context. His legacy continues.<\/p>\n<p>Author: Gwyn Lloyd Jones<br \/>\nPublisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd<br \/>\nPrice: \u00a330<br \/>\nISBN-10: 1848222262<br \/>\nISBN-13: 978-1848222267<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Art book review by Chrissie Walker \u00a9 2018<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a volume for any student of architecture who is interested in that phrase \u2018form follows function\u2019 with regard to the inspiring and revolutionary architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24300,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,3485],"tags":[380,846,698],"class_list":["post-2737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-culture-and-art","tag-architecture","tag-gwyn-lloyd-jones","tag-travels-with-frank-lloyd-wright"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2737"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10797,"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737\/revisions\/10797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}