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Modern Architecture is a landmark text鈥攖he first book in which America’s greatest architect put forth the principles of a fundamentally new, organic architecture that would reject the trappings of historical styles while avoiding the geometric abstraction of the machine aesthetic advocated by contemporary European modernists. One of the most important documents in the development of modern architecture and the career of Frank Lloyd Wright, Modern Architecture is a provocative and profound polemic against America’s architectural eclecticism, commercial skyscrapers, and misguided urban planning. The book is also a work of savvy self-promotion, in which Wright not only advanced his own concept of an organic architecture but also framed it as having anticipated by decades鈥攁nd bettered鈥攚hat he saw as the reductive modernism of his European counterparts. Based on the 1931 original, for which Wright supplied the cover illustration, this beautiful edition includes a new introduction that puts Modern Architecture in its broader architectural, historical, and intellectual context for the first time.

The subjects of these lively lectures鈥攆rom 鈥淢achinery, Materials and Men鈥� to 鈥淭he Tyranny of the Skyscraper鈥� and 鈥淭he City鈥濃�攎ove from a general statement of the conditions of modern culture to particular applications in the fields of architecture and urbanism at ever broadening scales. Wright’s vision in Modern Architecture is ultimately to equate the truly modern with romanticism, imagination, beauty, and nature鈥攁ll of which he connects with an underlying sense of American democratic freedom and individualism.