Frank Lloyd Wright

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It was in his home in Oak Park that Frank Lloyd Wright made his first contributions to the Modern movement. In 1889 he designed the first part of the house, in 1895 he added to it for his wife, Catherine, and their family, and in 1898 for his architectural practice. The entire building was a learning laboratory of modern architecture. While not a Prairie School house, it led to the development of the Prairie School. Wrights constant changes to this complex paralleled the evolution of his early architectural work and career. There, with his young assistants, he rethought the plan, spaces,...

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Arquitectura y magia es la investigación definitiva del profesor René Taylor sobre los misterios conceptuales que encierra El Escorial. Sostiene Taylor que Felipe II y Juan de Herrera eran hombres de su tiempo y, en consecuencia, abiertos a ciertas ideas de carácter arcano muy diseminadas entonces entre los individuos más cultos, ideas que posiblemente influyeron en el desarrollo de El Escorial. En las piedras, en los frescos y aun en la planta de este templo singular perviven, según Taylor, significados ocultos que sólo cabe descifrar con los criterios de quienes entendían la...