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Frank Lloyd Wright and Lewis Mumford: Thirty Years of Correspondence.(Brief Article)

The New Yorker

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Frank Lloyd Wright and Lewis Mumford: Thirty Years of Correspondence, edited by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer and Robert Wojtowicz (Princeton Architectural Press; $27.50). This rich exchange between two fiery American iconoclasts began in 1926, when Wright was at a low point in his career. In desperate need of renewed critical interest in his work, he approached Mumford with an admiring note, and they developed an often wary friendship that meanders from growing intimacy to a ...

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