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– Students will know the major works of Frank Lloyd Wright.
– Students will be given a general overview of American architecture in 1900–1950 and the main protagonists.
– Students will understand the basic historiography of the works by Frank Lloyd Wright.

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The lectures are organised in thematic cycles which are interconnected. The works of Frank Lloyd Wright are presented from an intersectional perspective: in terms of topography and chronology.

The assessment is based on a written test which verifies the knowledge of the presented material. The exam test comprises 100 % of assessment.

1. Frank Lloyd Wright in the theory and historiography of architecture
2. Interpretation of architecture and the myth of architect
3. Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Sullivan, and Oak Park
4. Martin House, Robie House and Prairie house
5. Principle of tradition, organicity, continuity, and democracy in the architecture of FLLW
6. Taliesin, WI, and Taliesin-West, AZ
7. Solomon R. Guggenheim museum (Neil Levine)
8. Frank Lloyd Wright in California
9. Interior, furniture, and ornament
10. Fallingwater: Organic synthesis
11. Frank Lloyd Wright and urban design
12. Students and followers of Frank Lloyd Wright
13. Frank Lloyd Wright and Czechia

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The aim of the course is to present a detailed overview of Frank Lloyd Wright´s works, to introduce the possibilities of their interpretation, and to contextualise them in the development of architecture of the 20th century.

Students must attend 50 % of the lectures.
In the case of a student's apology and with approval of the subject guarantor, personal attendance may be substituted with online attendance in the classes.

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Vincent Sully, Modern Architecture and Other Essays, New York 2005 (EN)

Anthony Alofskin et al., Frank Lloyd Wright: Architect, New York 2002 (EN)
Barry Bergdoll, Jennifer Gray, Frank Lloyd Wright: Unpacking the Archive, New York 2016 (EN)
Barry Bergdoll, Jennifer Gray, Frank Lloyd Wright: Unpacking the Archive, New York 2016 (EN)
Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, Frank Lloyd Wright : 1867-1959 : stavby pro demokracii, Praha 2005 (CS)
Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, Frank Lloyd Wright: Collected Writings, Vol. 1 (1890–1930), Vol. 2 (1930, 1932), Vol. 3 (1931–1939), Vol. 4 (1939–1949), Vol. 5 (1949–1959), New York, 1992–1995 (EN)
Francesco Dal Co, The Guggenheim: Frank Lloyd Wright's Iconoclastic Masterpiece, New Haven, 2017 (EN)
Neil Levine, The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, New York 1998 (EN)
Neil Levine, The Urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright, New York 2015 (EN)
Paul V. Turner, Frank Lloyd Wright and San Francisco, Palo Alto 2016 (EN)