Course detail
Architecture of 20th Century in the USA
FA-A20-TAcad. year: 2023/2024
The cycle of lectures will present not only the numerous works of Frank Lloyda Wright (1867–1959) who can be appointed as an archetypal “starchitect”, but also the construction of his historiographic myth. A wider context for the interpretation of modern and post-war American architecture will be provided, thus comparing Wright´s space principles with the works of Louis Sullivan, the Austrian School of Modernism, Adolf Loos, Le Corbusier, Ludwig Miese van der Rohe and other architects; and other possibilities and limits of the expression “organic architecture”.
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Entry knowledge
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Students must attend 50 % of the lectures.
In the case of a student's apology and with approval of the subject guarantor, personal attendance may be substituted with online attendance in the classes.
Aims
- Students will know the major works of Frank Lloyd Wright.
- Students will be given a general overview of American architecture in 1900–1950 and the main protagonists.
- Students will understand the basic historiography of the works by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Study aids
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Recommended reading
Barry Bergdoll, Jennifer Gray, Frank Lloyd Wright: Unpacking the Archive, New York 2016 (EN)
Barry Bergdoll, Jennifer Gray, Frank Lloyd Wright: Unpacking the Archive, New York 2016 (EN)
Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, Frank Lloyd Wright : 1867-1959 : stavby pro demokracii, Praha 2005 (CS)
Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, Frank Lloyd Wright: Collected Writings, Vol. 1 (1890–1930), Vol. 2 (1930, 1932), Vol. 3 (1931–1939), Vol. 4 (1939–1949), Vol. 5 (1949–1959), New York, 1992–1995 (EN)
Francesco Dal Co, The Guggenheim: Frank Lloyd Wright's Iconoclastic Masterpiece, New Haven, 2017 (EN)
Neil Levine, The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, New York 1998 (EN)
Neil Levine, The Urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright, New York 2015 (EN)
Paul V. Turner, Frank Lloyd Wright and San Francisco, Palo Alto 2016 (EN)
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme N_A+U Master's 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
specialization --- (do 2022) , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
specialization --- (do 2022) , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
Type of course unit
Lecture
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
- Frank Lloyd Wright in the theory and historiography of architecture
- Interpretation of architecture and the myth of architect
- Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Sullivan, and Oak Park
- Martin House, Robie House and Prairie house
- Principle of tradition, organicity, continuity, and democracy in the architecture of FLLW
- Taliesin, WI, and Taliesin-West, AZ
- Solomon R. Guggenheim museum (Neil Levine)
- Frank Lloyd Wright in California
- Interior, furniture, and ornament
- Fallingwater: Organic synthesis
- Frank Lloyd Wright and urban design
- Students and followers of Frank Lloyd Wright
- Frank Lloyd Wright and Czechia