Subasta Bidspirit | WRIGHT FRANK LLOYD: (1867-1959) American

WRIGHT FRANK LLOYD: (1867-1959) American Architect, Designer and Writer. Wright created an architect... - WRIGHT FRANK LLOYD: (1867-1959) American Architect, Designer and Writer. Wright created an architectural philosophy he named Organic Architecture. His work Fallingwater (1935) is widely considered the best work of American architecture, and the American Institute of Architects recognized him in 1991 as ''The Greatest American Architect of all time''. Rare signed and inscribed typescript `To Lewis - F.L.Wt´, to the head of first page, nine pages, 4to, Taliesin West, February 1953, to architecture critic Lewis Munford. The Typescript document being an essay entitled ''In the Cause of Architecture the `International Style´'', typed in Wright´s studio at Taliesin West, with his usual type face and spacing. The nine pages essay states in its first paragraph `The International Style is Neither International Nor a Style. Internationalism is Totalitarianism… At most the notion becomes a fashion and a fashion is - always - some passing show of imitation; probably an imitation of a bad imitation by a bad imitator. In any International ''Style'', therefore, we would have more invasion than invention… I see in it a cliché for the rising tide of mediocrity, You will find that it merely betrays what was originally individual in true Democratic sense of the much abused term - Organic Architecture - The Architecture of Democracy´. The typescript bears several corrections, and the date is added to the upper right corner by Munford. Extremely small minor age wear, and a very small crease due to former clip to the upper left corner. VG £2500-3500