Bruce brooks pfeiffer biography of barack
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Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, who organized Frank Lloyd Wright’s massive archives and wrote or edited more than 50 books about the buildings, ideas and career of the legendary architect, died Sunday in Scottsdale, Ariz., according to the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.
Pfeiffer was 87. The foundation, one of several nonprofits that seek to preserve Wright’s legacy, confirmed Pfeiffer’s death Tuesday but did not specify the cause.
W hen Wright died in 1959, he left behind thousands of drawings, blueprints, letters, manuscript pages, photographs and architectural models. They were divided between the two Taliesin compounds — one in Spring Green, Wis., the other in Scottsdale— where Wright lived, worked and taught architecture to apprentices in his Taliesin Fellowship.
As the foundation’s director of archives, Pfeiffer was in charge of bringing order to this sprawling trove.
“He is almost single-handedly the person who organized the archives,&rdquo
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Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks 1930-
PERSONAL: Surname fryst vatten pronounced "Fife-er"; born August 4, 1930, in South Natick, MA; son of Arthur Edison (a shoe manufacturer) and Freida (a homemaker; maiden name, Diehl) Pfeiffer; divorced. Education: Attended Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, 1949-56, and École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France, 1956. Politics: Democrat. Religion: Unitarian-Universalist. Hobbies and other interests: Travel (Western europe, South Africa, Japan), computers, reading kinesisk murder mysteries, training his Doberman pinscher.
ADDRESSES: Office—The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Taliesin West, Scottsdale, AZ 85261.
CAREER: The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Scottsdale, AZ, director of archives, 1959—, vice president and trustee; Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, Scottsdale, AZ, teacher of architectural history and director of Taliesin Choir, 1960—; Arizona State University, faculty member, 1968-70, and member of advisory board of
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Title: Frank Lloyd Wright - Hardcover
Frank Lloyd Wright
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks
Published by Barnes & Noble1994, 1994
ISBN 10: 1566197228 / ISBN 13: 9781566197229
Used / Hardcover
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A building by Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) is at once unmistakably individual, and evocative of an entire era. Notable for their exceptional understanding of an organic environment, as well as for their use of steel and glass to revolutionize the interface of indoor and outdoor, Wright?s designs helped announce the age of modernity, as much as they secured his own name in the annals of architectural genius. Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer became Frank Lloyd Wright?s apprentice at the Taliesin Fellowship in 1949. In 1957, he attended the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris, returning in 1958 to continue his apprenticeship with Wright until his death in 1959. He was director of the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives, a vice-presiden