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Architect and historian Stuart Cohen here digs deeply into what they (the architects of Steinway Hall) were actually conceptualizing architecturally. He takes our understanding of American modernism at the turn of the twentieth century an important step further. -David Van Zanten, Professor Emeritus Northwestern University. Author of Sullivan's City and Designing Paris. In this compelling study, part architectural history, part social history, and part investigation in group dynamics, Stuart Cohen shows Wright as part of a community of young architects...and explains how connected their careers were... -Paul Goldberger, Pulitzer Prize winning Architectural Critic. Stuart Cohen has provided the first important book since H. Allen Brooks' groundbreaking work, The Prairie School of 1972, devoted to the early work of the designers who collectively produced America's first modern architectural movement. -Paul Kruty, Professor Emeritus of Architectural History and Prairie School Scholar. Stuart Cohen's new book proves not only that Wright was tutored and influenced by his peers in Chicago's Steinway Hall, but that Robert Spencer, Dwight Perkins, and Myron Hunt provided some key ideas to the emerging architect during his formative years. There is nothing like it in the vast literature on America's most famous architect. -Mark Alan Hewitt FAIA, Author Draw in Order to See and The Architect and the American Country House. The book 'Frank L. Wright and the Architects of Steinway Hall' brilliantly undermines the canonical narrative of the evolution of Modern Architecture in Chicago. His (Cohen's) meticulous analysis and thorough documentation posits an alternative theory of creativity founded not on individual acts of genius but on the collective cultural dialogue... -Thomas H. Beeby FAIA, Former Dean of the Yale School of Architecture.

Architect and historian Stuart Cohen here digs deeply into what they (the architects of Steinway Hall) were actually conceptualizing architecturally. He takes our understanding of American modernism at the turn of the twentieth century an important step further. -David Van Zanten, Professor Emeritus Northwestern University. Author of Sullivan's City and Designing Paris. In this compelling study, part architectural history, part social history, and part investigation in group dynamics, Stuart Cohen shows Wright as part of a community of young architects...and explains how connected their careers were... -Paul Goldberger, Pulitzer Prize winning Architectural Critic. Stuart Cohen's new book proves not only that Wright was tutored and influenced by his peers in Chicago's Steinway Hall, but that Robert Spencer, Dwight Perkins, and Myron Hunt provided some key ideas to the emerging architect during his formative years. There is nothing like it in the vast literature on America's most famous architect. -Mark Alan Hewitt FAIA, Author Draw in Order to See and The Architect and the American Country House. The book 'Frank L. Wright and the Architects of Steinway Hall' brilliantly undermines the canonical narrative of the evolution of Modern Architecture in Chicago. His (Cohen's) meticulous analysis and thorough documentation posits an alternative theory of creativity founded not on individual acts of genius but on the collective cultural dialogue... -Thomas H. Beeby FAIA, Former Dean of the Yale School of Architecture. Of the myriad books that continue to proliferate on Frank Lloyd Wright, this investigation comes from a refreshingly different angle. Instead of romanticizing Wright as a pioneer and lone genius, Stuart Cohen, an architect and educator, places Wright as part of a coterie significant to the creation of Chicago's architecture culture in the early 20th century. --Architectural Record Stuart Cohen has provided the first important book since H. Allen Brooks' groundbreaking work, The Prairie School of 1972, devoted to the early work of the designers who collectively produced America's first modern architectural movement. -Paul Kruty, Professor Emeritus of Architectural History and Prairie School Scholar.

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Stuart Cohen is an author, educator, and practicing architect. His contributions to architectural history, theory and education have been recognised by the Society of Architectural Historians (2019) and the Institute for Classical Architecture and Art’s Arthur Ross Award (2018). He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and Professor of Architecture Emeritus at the University of Illinois Chicago.

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