Frank Lloyd Wright

Alan Weintraub

• 21 april 2009
• 9780847832361

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With 350 color photographs collected in a compact volume, this breathtaking design coffee table book offers a survey of Wright’s life in architecture in a portable format.

Featuring more than 100 discrete works, from the well-known to the obscure, expertly discussed in the text of highly respected Wright scholar Kathryn Smith, Frank Lloyd Wright weaves a gorgeous tapestry that will engage the mind and delight the eye.

An extraordinarily abundant trove of architectural riches, the book includes:

• Early Work: Such as the Home and Studio in Oak Park, IL (1889)
• Textile Block Houses: Evocative scenes of Los Angeles in the mid-1920s
• Seminal Masterpieces: Including Fallingwater in the Pennsylvania wilderness (1935) and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York (1956)

A stunning overview of the work of this towering American genius, this compact architecture book encompasses the entirety of Frank Lloyd Wright’s long and extraordinarily prolific career.