Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2309049 in Books
• Published on: 2002-06-27
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 352 pages

Review
"A meticulously researched and beautifully presented book with a large portfolio of plates... Kruty's own achievement is that by capitalizing on the loss of Midway Gardens and broadening the scope of his reconstruction, so that Chicago and its relation to America's cultural history and European Modernism become almost as important as the architect's genius as explanatory factors, he has put Wright's 'fantasy' back on the map." -- Douglas Tallack, Urban History

Ingram
Built in Chicago in 1914, Frank Lloyd Wright's Midway Gardens was a concert garden that included an indoor restaurant and dance hall, a five-tiered outdoor summer garden with band shell, a tavern, and a private club--a work of art on the grandest scale. Demolished in 1929, Midway Gardens is at the heart of a quintessential American tale, a great hybrid of Old and New World sensibilities, and a monument to the cultural use of buildings. 218 photos.