TY - BOOK AU - Wright, Frank Lloyd TI - Modern Architecture: Being the Kahn Lectures for 1930/ SN - 9780691129372 PY - 2008/// PB - Princeton University Press; KW - Modernism KW - NA190-1555.5 History N2 - The 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 ER -