L'attualità dell'opera di Frank Lloyd Wright. The relevance of Frank Lloyd Wright's work.

Frank Lloyd Wright, together with Le Corbusier, represents the greatest protagonist of 20th century architecture. Both were great architects and no one influenced the world of architectural culture like them. In the difference of their choices of field, they were true revolutionaries. Wright has been celebrated everywhere with many books that have detailed his work and made him the protagonist of some masterly exhibitions that have then become a reference for many generations of architects, given his long career and the many different moments always closely linked to the organic architecture of which he was the protagonist and founder. So why write another book about his work? The book was born from an idea of the writer to commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the death of the American master. Celebrate him, through some writings of scholars who deal with history and theory, urban planning and cities, technologies and construction materials, composition and architectural design in their university commitment, to give an interdisciplinary reading consistent with what Wright has left as a legacy. The themes addressed by the authors of these writings in his honor, in fact, have been interpreted from time to time by the American master himself through his work where his cultural and prophetic teachings can be found. The book therefore wants to give a contribution to Wright’s poetics as a resource for teaching architecture, making the value of his sacred message significant once again. The themes addressed by the authors of these writings in his honor, in fact, have been interpreted from time to time by the American master himself through his work where his cultural and prophetic teachings can be found. The book therefore wants to make a contribution to Wright’s poetics as a resource for teaching architecture, making the value of his sacred message significant once again. The guide of this reasoning is the extraordinary text by Paolo Portoghesi, taken from an unforgettable conference held at the Order of Architects of Rome, greeted at the end by a standing ovation of applause, lasting a quarter of an hour. The Roman master writes about Wright’s roots in Borromini, his masters par excellence, and punctually documents the suggestions of the two great architects in front of the themes of architecture interpreted as poetry.