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Announcing FRANK LLOYDS WRIGHT'S BOGK HOUSE

April 27, 2025 by Anthony Alofsin

My new book FRANK LLOYDS WRIGHT'S BOGK HOUSE with co-author Richard Cleary is in press and available for pre-purchase from Amazon.Bogk House from Amazon

April 27, 2025 /Anthony Alofsin
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New Paperback edition of Wright and New York published November 2020!

November 16, 2020 by Anthony Alofsin

Purchase your copy at your local book store or Amazon.

Wright and New York: The Making of America's Architect
By Alofsin, Anthony
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November 16, 2020 /Anthony Alofsin
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Wright and New York at Zocalo Public Square

February 24, 2020 by Anthony Alofsin

An essay I wrote, “How Frank Lloyd Wright’s Architecture Turned New York Into the Center of the World” has just been published on-line by Zócalo Public Square, a project that connects people and
ideas through journalism: Wright in Zócalo



February 24, 2020 /Anthony Alofsin
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Anthony Alofsin Explains Why Wright Landed in NYC at the Tail End of the Jazz Age...

October 01, 2019 by Anthony Alofsin

Iconic architect Frank Lloyd Wright famously called New York a prison. But there's another story: One in which Wright finds salvation in NYC after hitting rock bottom at the end of the Jazz Age.

October 01, 2019 /Anthony Alofsin
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2019 Fall Lecture Series in New York

August 31, 2019 by Anthony Alofsin

A series of public lectures around the topic of his new book, Wright and New York: The Making of America’s Architect. Held in conversation with distinguished guests, these talks will raise issues not only of Frank Lloyd Wright’s legacy but the role of the city in…

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August 31, 2019 /Anthony Alofsin
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Podcast | The Complex Relationship Between Frank Lloyd Wright and New York City

August 31, 2019 by Anthony Alofsin

Frank Lloyd Wright denounced New York as an “unlivable prison,” but in the 1920s the city gave him refuge from personal and creative troubles, and helped him resurrect a foundering career. In this podcast from Yale University Press, Architect and Historian Anthony Alofsin offers …

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August 31, 2019 /Anthony Alofsin
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Architecture and the Art Museum | NYPL Art Talk 6.7.17

April 28, 2017 by Anthony Alofsin

Architecture and the Art Museum | A panel discussion with Anthony Alofsin, Francesco Dal Co, Arezoo Moseni, Troy Conrad Therrien, Billie Tsien & Tod Williams | 6.7.17 | Architectural Explorations in Books Series Event, hosted by NYPL.

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April 28, 2017 /Anthony Alofsin
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UT Libraries Acquires the Anthony Alofsin Archive

April 18, 2017 by Anthony Alofsin

Architect Anthony Alofsin, FAIA, has donated an archive of his life’s work to the Alexander Architectural Archives and Architecture & Planning Library at the University of Texas at Austin.

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