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The Art and Craft of the Machine
Frank Lloyd Wright
Argues the machine, properly used, can liberate ornament and craft from tedious hand labour and become the tool of a genuinely modern architecture, rather than architecture's enemy.
Architecture & Built Environment · Modern & Contemporary Architecture
A topic within Modern & Contemporary Architecture, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Architecture & Built Environment.
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Frank Lloyd Wright
Argues the machine, properly used, can liberate ornament and craft from tedious hand labour and become the tool of a genuinely modern architecture, rather than architecture's enemy.
Frank Lloyd Wright
A building should grow from its site and express its structure and materials honestly, the organic-architecture creed Wright set out before any of the houses that made it famous were built.
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