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Frank Lloyd Wright 150th anniversary celebrated in two publications from Lund Humphries

Two new books from Lund Humphries will offer insights into the legacy of the famous and controversial American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The publications coincide with this year's celebration of 150 years since the architect's birth, which includes a major exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and a programme of special events from the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.

To mark the anniversary Lund Humphries are reissuing an attractive new edition of Frank Lloyd Wright'sOrganic Architecture, The Architecture of Democracy, which was the first art book produced by the company in 1939.Organic Architectureis a record of four lectures Lloyd Wright gave at the Royal Institute of British Architects in London in 1939. In the talks he sets out his core philosophy and the design principles of his recent projects, including his Usonian houses, his homes and studios at Taliesin Wisconsin and Arizona, Fallingwater and the Johnson Administration Building. The new edition includes a special introduction by architectural historian Professor Andrew Saint, which sets the lectures within their context and explains their continued appeal.

A second book,Travels With Frank Lloyd Wright, the First Global Architectby Gwyn Lloyd Jones, looks at the architect in an international context. The author retraces the architect's journeys to Japan, Germany, Russia, the UK, Italy and the Middle East, revealing his global architectural legacy. Beautifully illustrated with Lloyd Wright's own sketches and photographs the book offers a contemporary view of the architect's worldwide ambitions.

 The two publications mark the re-launch of the Lund Humphries Architecture and Design catalogue in 2017, with a range of illustrated books aimed at specialists, professionals and enthusiasts. Lund Humphries has a rich heritage in architecture and design publishing and the new list aims to be global in scope and wide-ranging in approach.

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For more information, to request copies for review and to arrange interviews please contact Alice Grahame on 0 (0 44)7866 351412 press@lundhumphries.com

Frank Lloyd Wright (8 June 1867 - 9 April 1959) was a visionary American architect, writer and educator, who has been recognised by the American Institute of Architects as 'the Greatest American Architect of all time'.

 
Andrew Saint is General Editor of The Survey of London and an author whose most recent books are Richard Norman Shaw and Architect and Engineer: A Study in Sibling Rivalry.

Dr Gwyn Lloyd Jones is a practising architect based in London and Wales. He gained his doctorate, ‘Frank Lloyd Wright beyond America', at Westminster University, where he also is a visiting lecturer. Gwyn has spoken about Wright at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and the Welsh National Assembly. In 2009 won the Giles Worsley Travel Fellowship to the British School in Rome where he undertook research into Frank Lloyd Wright's influence in Italy. His architectural Diploma dissertation was the inaugural winner of the RIBA President's Dissertation Medal and he subsequently wrote and presented a television programme entitled Y Daith yw'r Stori (The Journey is the Story) for S4C (Welsh Channel 4).

Both Andrew Saint and Gwyn Lloyd Jones are scheduled to give talks at a conference on the impact of Frank Lloyd Wright in Britain, in May 2017 in Oxford, UK.