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F.L. Wright (Hardcover)
Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer; Edited by Peter Goessel
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Acclaimed as the "father of skyscrapers," the quintessentially
American icon Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was an architect of
aspiration. He believed in giving cultivated American life its
fitting architectural equivalent and applied his idealism to
structures across the continent, from suburban homes to churches,
offices, skyscrapers, and the celebrated Guggenheim Museum.
Wright's work is distinguished by its harmony with humanity and its
environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture, and which
found its paradigm at Fallingwater, a house in rural Pennsylvania,
cited by the American Institute of Architects as "the best all-time
work of American architecture." Wright also made a particular mark
with his use of industrial materials, and by the simple L or T plan
of his Prairie House which became a model for rural architecture
across America. Wright was also often involved in many of the
interior elements of his buildings, such as the furniture and
stained glass, paying particular attention to the balance between
individual needs and community activity. Exploring Wright's
aspirations to augment American society through architecture, this
book offers a concise introduction to his at once technological and
Romantic response to the practical challenges of middle-class
Americans. About the series Born back in 1985, the Basic Art Series
has evolved into the best-selling art book collection ever
published. Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Architecture series
features: an introduction to the life and work of the architect the
major works in chronological order information about the clients,
architectural preconditions as well as construction problems and
resolutions a list of all the selected works and a map indicating
the locations of the best and most famous buildings approximately
120 illustrations (photographs, sketches, drafts, and plans)
Olgivanna Wright, the last of Frank Lloyd Wright's three wives.
Neo-theosophist. Dancer. Musician. Businesswoman. Muse. The Life of
Olgivanna Lloyd Wright weaves a narrative from Olgivanna's
previously unpublished autobiography, together with vignettes from
her other writings books, newspaper columns, and presentations.
This informative and engaging chronicle takes a fresh perspective
on Wright's architectural prowess, examining the great woman who
inspired his productive later years.
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. This meticulous compilation from
TASCHEN's previous three-volume monograph assembles the most
important works from Wright's extensive, paradigm-shifting oeuvre
into one authoritative and accessibly priced overview of America's
most famous architect. Based on unlimited access to the Frank Lloyd
Wright Archives in Taliesin, Arizona, the collection spans the
length and breadth of Wright's projects, both realized and
unrealized, from his early Prairie Houses, through the Usonian
concept home, epitomized by Fallingwater, the Tokyo years, his
progressive "living architecture" buildings, right through to later
schemes like the Guggenheim Museum, New York, and fantastic visions
for a better tomorrow in the "living city." Author Bruce Brooks
Pfeiffer, who served as Wright's apprentice during the 1950s,
discusses recent research on Wright and gives his own insights on
these game-changing buildings.
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Frank Lloyd Wright: The Houses (Hardcover)
Alan Weintraub; Text written by Alan Hess; Contributions by Kenneth Frampton, Thomas S Hines, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer
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Frank Lloyd Wright is not only synonymous with architecture, his
name is also synonymous with the American house in the twentieth
century. In particular, his residential work has been the subject
of continuing interest and controversy. Wright's Fallingwater
(1935), the seminal masterpiece perched over a waterfall deep in
the Pennsylvania highlands, is perhaps the best-known private house
in the history of the world. In fact, Wright's houses-from his
Prairie style Robie House (1906) in Chicago, to the Storer (1923)
and Freeman (1923) houses in Los Angeles, and Taliesen West (1937)
in the Arizona desert-are all touchstones of modern architecture.
For the first time, all 289 extant houses are shown here in
exquisite color photographs. Along with Weintraub's stunning photos
and a selection of floor plans and archival images, the book
includes text and essays by several leading Wright scholars. Frank
Lloyd Wright: The Houses is an event of great importance and a
major contribution to the literature on this titan of modern
architecture.
He was the most iconoclastic of architects, and at the height of
his career his output of writings about architecture was as
prolific and visionary as his architecture itself. Frank Lloyd
Wright pioneered a bold new kind of architecture, one in which the
spirit of modern man truly "lived in his buildings." "The Essential
Frank Lloyd Wright" is a one-volume compendium of Wright's most
critically important--and personally revealing--writings on every
conceivable aspect of his craft.
Wright was perhaps the most influential and inspired architect
of the twentieth century, and this is the only book that gathers
all of his most significant essays, lectures, and articles on
architecture. Bruce Pfeiffer includes each piece in its entirety to
present the architect's writings as he originally intended them.
Beginning early in Wright's career with "The Art and Craft of the
Machine" in 1901, the book follows major themes through "The
Disappearing City, The Natural House," and many other writings, and
ends with A" Testament" in 1957, published two years before his
death. This volume is beautifully illustrated with original
drawings and photographs, and is complemented by Pfeiffer's general
introduction, which provides history and context. "The Essential
Frank Lloyd Wright" is a must-have resource for architects and
scholars and a delight for general readers.
In 1932 nineteen-year-old John H. Howe arrived at Taliesin as a
charter member of Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin Fellowship. There
he would remain for the next thirty-two years, earning a reputation
as "the pencil in Wright's hand" before establishing his own
architectural practice in Minnesota. This is the first book to tell
Howe's story and also the first full account of his place in the
history of modern architecture-as chief draftsman and valued
interpreter of Wright's designs and as a prolific architect in his
own right. Illustrated throughout with Howe's sublime drawings,
this biography is a testament to the underappreciated architect's
extraordinary design and rendering skills. Influenced by Wright's
principles of organic architecture, Howe operated under the
conviction that "the land is the beginning of architecture."
Architectural historians Jane King Hession and Tim Quigley show how
this belief worked especially well for Howe in Minnesota, where his
buildings appear to have grown naturally and organically from the
landscape. Also remarkable are the visionary architectural schemes
Howe created while serving time in prison during World War II as a
conscientious objector-futuristic visions that anticipated Eero
Saarinen's later designs for airports and Victor Gruen's for
America's first indoor shopping mall. An enlightening look at an
exemplary life in architecture, this book finally brings the
accomplishment-and significance-of John H. Howe to the fore and at
the same time illuminates a fascinating chapter in American
architectural history.
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