弗兰克·劳埃德·赖特：建 #$筑美国之人
剧情简介
Fra- _nk L)` loyd Wright is Am#e rica&#=39s grea test[-ever architect. Howeve=r, few p eople know ^( ,about#+ the We\*+l -s = h /_root/s^ t?hat ([+shaped hi= _s lif,e and # world-famous buildi$,\ngs. Now, ? leadin@;)g Welsh archi; #t ec.).t Jon# ??athan Adams sets off *;+:a!# cross Am,e\=rica[/^ *to expl;:o\ re# Frank Lloyd Wright&# `%39 _$s masterpieces fo.r himself. @#: Along the way, h-,:e uncovers the tem\ *:,p e ^:stuous life story of th@e m+ an behind`. th?em a =, nd )/_the si gnificance of hi s r)(adic a )?l fam il=y back!%groun[/d. I/n a ca;reer- span ning seven [$decades, Frank Lloy+# d W \rig[]?h`=t @ \b + uilt %` o`.ve@?\ r 500$ b)ui+$ldings, and changed t_/he: face of mo; #dern a rc `hitecture: Falling) water, the hous!%@ e (-over the + w- #@aterfal%l, , has b ^een called th: e great%==e\ *st house o-=f the- ` 20th century- the spira:l.::li],%ng Guggenheim Museum in ]New York reinve#_nte\][$d *)the art mus- _*eum th[#e concrete ^ ; Unity T)^.emple _\;+was the _ firs:^##t$ truly modern bu #;ilding in the) w),o ]rld. But the underlying phil?[osophy$( that links all Wri % ght)#'s /buil/ d \ings is; a[ s i!_mportant a s a#nythin? g he built._ Those :ideas w\ere r`???ooted] in the Uni]`ta.r[-ian reli=`gion of Frank L loy,d Wright's mother. Anna Ll)-%oyd Jones w)*;as b- ,orn@/ ^and raised., near Llandysul in `west Wa (le :^s and migra`ted to= Am ^erica with her fami.ly in 1?] 844, most likely to e+scape *..re#l igi $ous persecut;] i@#on. - ]Her son, Frank, was/?, raised in a Unitarian . communi t\y in ]Wisconsin, a small piece of Wale ^s i#n Ameri =ca. Th %e values ([he absorbed t %`here were based on the s/anctity of!+ nature, the importance o\f:=: ha@$rd =? w[/ork, an + d`+, the need to qu_ estio ;n \;](*convention and defy it where ne^\ cess*ary. Wrig %ht's ar chitecture was s haped; by, -and expres((s*+!:ed, th[$@ese % `%beliefs. Frank Lloy=d Wrigh_#t se+.[t out ) `-to create a[ new American a?^r:ch`?itec;\t\u]re for a +new count;ry. He built his ;)! @[ o=[@;(wn l*.=i#;_felo ng home in t!!` he valley he (w :as r%*\aise` d in, (,% and he? name=d^] #.it :\aft]er an_!;^ `a/)! nc`ient We+ @lsh bard `^called Taliesin. I t wa*,$s the scene o@?f ma:$n`-y adventu%res - \ [and a hor,@rific cri+!me. In 1,91 ) 4, a servant at Taliesi\_n ran amok and kill $$[ed seven p eople i!`* nclu: di] ng Wright's partner, Mam[!^a- h Che`?=+n$ )ey, a\nd ] h/er two you^!]ng ch!.*il` dren . Wrig-ht rebui[!lt his .,home and went o]. %n^* to` marry a M$)ontenegrin woman, Olgivanna ]Milan-o)+ff, some .30 yea )*!r[_% s young/-]+^er[! than him=,#. I@$@t was, =^Olgivann, @a who struck upo[ /n the idea that save-d+!@. !Wright&?!# :^39)][s career afte.r, t$[ he Wall Street @% Cra;sh a nd person*:%a l ?`;scanda\\, l laid it lo_w. S$;#he de):cided `that her = (h,/usban +d shoul\ %d t_ _ake on appre.$n =. tic?!es and t+]hat the app/ %.re ? ntic.*e /s should,% pay for%` %-the privilege. T# he T= a liesi`_n Fe:=llowship had `a h%ands-on approach,, wi\t-h apprentices often bu+ilding = extensions \ to Wright's o_w. ^n houses, %labou-]ring and cooki!ng :f!+( o@`r him. Someho- w it worked,; l?]ast #ing `; -for deca[ des `: and nu/ rturin g h ;un@ d(^r \eds of young talen%% t/?s. Fra/ ) nk Lloyd Wright died in 1959 a ?(ged 91 while wo*rking on his final m=(+asterpiece, N#ew York's incomparable Gugg:,enhei/)m M#)use-%um. He h- ad been bor`/,]n in )the _ ,_wake of th\ .e Americ:\an !civil w*a -=r@ ,+ -the son o;f a pioneer., a$ ,nd died a television /celebrity, in the sp+ ace ag^.*e. He is buried in the) s]h(%adow\$ +=@of Talies#in,.`$ a %longside his Welsh an-ces $tor. s--. A 15 ! 0 yea-rs af:_-*.ter% h`% is bi+_rt!* h, Jon atha` n A)$/dams argues that Fr? ank L*! loyd Wright i+*s now a vitally i$)mportant f !igure who c an tea. ch # us how to buil^/d ^ for a ] +b$]*:etter ;world. %Wr *# ight believed in .what he call \ed@ organ!]ic architectur $e buildings [that gra@ce? the landscape, express an idea o==f how to live and res,$pond to ind*^ :ividual/\ needs. Th];is[ ;bespo:#ke,@ app* r?? oa^ch .- a ph!#ilosoph._y, not a style - puts him at the hear @ :t of m`@ %o=(?der=`^` n archite:;ctu* ral thinking.