Frank Lloyd Wright often expressed a passionate contempt for America's great cities,reserving a special wrath for New York. And yet, as Herbert Muschamp argues with verve andconviction in this book, Gotham played a vital part in shaping Wright's "second career" galvanizingthe architect's energies after the scandal-ridden decades during which he built almost nothing.ManAbout Town describes Wright's Broadacre City proposals and includes photographs of his drawings forsuch major unbuilt New York projects as the Steel Cathedral for a Million People, the St. Mark'sApartment Towers, the Manhattan Sports Pavilion, and the Ellis Island "Key Project," in addition topreviously unpublished photographs of "Taliesin the Third."Herbert Muschamp is currently working ona study of New York architecture by Philip Johnson.
Man About Town describes Wright's Broadacre City proposals and includes photographs of his drawings for major unbuilt New York projects.
