The Future of Architecture. by WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd - 1953

New York: Horizon Press,, 1953. Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age First edition, first printing, signed by the author on the front free endpaper. The book prints Hugh Downs's 1953 interview with Wright, alongside Wright's essay "Some Aspects of the Past and Present in Architecture" (1937), and his lectures given in the 1930s at Princeton University, the Chicago Art Institute, and the Royal Institute of British Architects in London. Quarto. Original red quarter cloth, spine lettered in gilt, buckram sides. With dust jacket. Photographic frontispiece, several photographic illustrations to the text. Tiny nicks to spine ends, front inner hinge partly cracked but firm; a couple of light marks to unclipped jacket, spine lightly toned, minimal creasing and rubbing to extremities: a near-fine copy in near-fine dust jacket.