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Frank Lloyd Wright's Larkin Building has become an icon of modern
architecture. And the fact that it was demolished only forty-six
years after its 1904 completion makes Jack Quinan's study of the
building - which housed a Buffalo, New York, soap company - all the
more valuable. Quinan's history draws on engineering documents,
personal accounts of the building, and other papers he acquired
from the family of Darwin D. Martin, a Larkin executive who
proposed commissioning Wright to design the company's offices. With
access to these rare sources, Quinan reveals how a young Wright
landed the commission and traces the evolution of his cutting-edge
plans. Quinan then takes Wright studies to a new level, examining
the Larkin Building as a structure at the center of economic and
personal relationships. Illustrated with over one hundred
photographs, floor plans, maps, and diagrams, "Frank Lloyd Wright's
Larkin Building" provides a concise but complete record of how the
building was conceived, built, evaluated, and finally demolished in
what has been called a tragic loss for American architecture.
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