Anthony Alofsin's new book on Wright's tumultuous relationship with New York City is the third one centering on a connection that Wright himself might have thought unworthy.
Well timed for the Bauhaus centenary, this is the first biography of Walter Gropius (1883–1969) since Reginald Isaacs’s was translated from German and abbreviated in 1991.
Thomas S. Hines' meticulously researched account relates how curator and director Arthur Drexler gave MoMA's influential Architecture and Design department "a new purposeful cohesiveness.”