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The Vision of Frank Lloyd Wright

Thomas A. Heinz

"The author, Thomas A. Heinz, offers new insights to the complex, powerful Frank Lloyd Wright and the architectural legacy he left behind which exists to this day in the vast number of homes and buildings beautifully photographed throughout this book."
Frank Lloyd Wright: A Visual Encyclopedia

Iain Thompson

"A guide to structures built by famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright."
Frank Lloyd Wright in Pop-Up

Iain Thomson

"Features pop-ups and original plans of six of Wright's buildings, as well as commentary on the commissioning, design, and construction of each building."
South Florida Home Book

Cahners

"A comprehensive hands-on design sourcebook building, remodeling, decorating, furnishing and landscaping a luxury home in Southeast Florida."
Essential Frank Lloyd Wright

Caroline Knight

"Frank Lloyd Wright was one of the first American architects to see the importance of inventing a design which incorporated both American identity and culture. Nature was Wright's most important influence and at the root of his organic approach to building design. Gathered together here are all Wrights finest works, covering the most significant periods of his creative output. These include early works such as the Prairie Houses and the Winslow House, mid-period works like the Larking Building, Unity Templa and Taliesin, and Fallingwater and the Guggenheim Musuem from his later period."
Frank Lloyd Wright

Caroline Knight

With his refreshing and completely innovative approach to architectural design, Frank Lloyd Wright both revolutionized and reinvented the American art scenery. Legendary buildings like the Guggenheim Museum, completed in 1959, and Fallingwater, from 1936, are rightly regarded as architectural classics.

Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural output was considerable. His creative period stretches over a period of seventy years and includes more than one thousand architectural works. A man of many talents, Wright not only excelled as an architect but was also an exceptional writer and inspiring educator.

Frank Lloyd Wright was one of the first American architects to see the importance of inventing a design which incorporated both American identity and culture. Nature was Wright's most important influence and at the root of his organic approach to building design. He exploited the regional materials available to him and perfected the art of creating buildings that worked in harmony with their particularly environment. The Winslow House, Wright's first revolutionary masterpiece, is an example of what would become known as 'organic architecture.'

Gathered together here all Wright's finest works, covering the most significant periods of his creative output. These include early works such as the Prairie Houses and the Winslow House, mid-period works like the Larkin Building, Unity Temple and Taliesin, and Fallingwater and the Guggenheim Museum from his later period.
The Orange Mode

OM Solar

OM Solar derived its name from two Japanese words, omoshiroi and mottainai, whose meaning in English is "interesting" and "no wasteful," respectively. With OM Solar's move into the international arena, an easy-to-remember word association in English became desirable. The designation 'Orange Mode' was created because these two words aptly evoke our system and its advantages. 'Orange' not only refers to the fruit that needs the sun's rays to ripen to its optimum state, but also suggests the warmth, comfort and well-being that the sun's energy brings to our lives. 'Mode,' of course, means a method or way of doing somethin, and can even be synonymous with 'mood.' Our system is a method of maximizing the sun's comfort and benefits to enhance our lives at home, at work, at play and at rest, so Orange Mode is, we think, a genuinely appropriate name."
Feng Shui Before & After: Practical Room-by-Room Makeovers for Your House

Stephen Skinner

"Feng Shui Before and After uses the ancient art of feng shui to help you improve the energetic quality and visual appeal of your home or office. The book tells you how to find your most and least fortunate directions, your element and star number, and how to use the magic square to discover which sectors of your house relate to specific areas of your life.

This book will show you how to transform your home or office, restoring harmony and maximizing the flow of good energy in your life by doing things as simple as rearranging furniture, redecorating using the right colors, or adding a mirror, plant, or wind-chime. With beautiful before and after color photographs and informative text, this title contains everything you need to improve any area's feng shui.
Architecture Design Library: Prairie Style

Lisa Skolnik

"Originated and championed by Frank Lloyd Wright, Prairie Style is as fresh today as it was at its inception 100 years ago, as evidenced by some of the finest and most original structures and interiors America has ever known. Striking color photographs and illuminating text show to full advantage the sweeping lines, natural materials, precise forms, and integration of building and landscape that are the hallmarks of Prairie Style. By taking a total approach to the entire environment, Wright and his contemporaries blur the line between architecture and design. Knowing the furnishings and accessories integral to their overall aesthetic, built-in architectural details, cabinets lining the walls, window seats, and furniture noted for its rectilinear form, natural wood finish, and art-glass accents (many pieces of which are still manufactured today)--discover for yourself the refined elegance that makes Prairie Style such a favorite around the world."
Light Screens: The Complete Leaded-Glass Windows of Frank Lloyd Wright

Julie L. Sloan

"Visionary and prolific, Frank Lloyd Wright conceived leaded-glass windows for almost every one of his buildings between 1885 and 1923, his most celebrated years. His output was prodigious: an estimated 4,365 window designs for over 160 structures, more than 100 of which were realized. Here, Julie L. Sloan presents the largest gathering of these windows ever published.

In this accessibly written, impressively researched volume, Sloan shows how Wright revolutionized a centuries-old art form. With the boldly abstract glass he called "light screens," he distanced himself from Louis Comfort Tiffany and John La Farge and invented a fully modern language of design. Wright's windows were integral to his architectural conceptions, as Sloan demonstrates with a wealth of illustrations-- including rarely seen drawings and on-site photographs made especially for this book. In recreating the master's integration of his windows into his structures, the author brings to life such lavish landmarks as the Susan Lawrence Dana house, the Darwin D. Martin complex, and Hollyhock House, while she traces three phases in Wright's evolving language of geometric patterns.

According to Sloan, the master's vision grew from the curvilinear Queen Anne-style motifs of his earliest glass; through the chevrons, rectangles, and autumnal palette of his famed Prairie-period windows; to the jazzy asymmetries, dancing triangles, and primary colors of his 1911-23 work, when vanguard European art and architecture helped inspire his most joyous, innovative light screens. In the same years, Wright expanded his use of glass from the single opening to the casement, the clerestory, and the skylight. "While providing harmonious ornament, control of illumination, and privacy," Sloan writes, these ensembles of intricately patterned glass "negotiate the boundaries between interior space and exterior view."

Light Screens proposes a structuralist analysis of Wright's evolving typology of geometric forms and provides a cogent art-historical summary of what shaped them. Concise chapters describe the impact on Wright's glass of the Gothic Revival and Arts and Crafts movements, Japonisme, and Friedrich Froebel's educational exercises. Sloan also explains Wright's design theories and elliptical writings on glass. And she includes useful reconstructions and little-known primary-data: for example, on period terms and fabrication techniques for ornamental glass, and on Wright's clients, assistants, and suppliers. Such rich detail commends this book to connoisseurs and collectors of 19th- and 20th-century glass and modern design alike. Groundbreaking in content and commanding in scope, it is essential reading for scholars and enthusiasts of Wright."
Light Screens: The Leaded-Glass Windows of Frank Lloyd Wright

Julie L. Sloan and David G. De Long

"With inexhaustible creativity, Frank Lloyd Wright designed an estimated 4,365 windows for over 160 of his buildings. With this boldly abstract glass, he distanced himself from his contemporaries Louis Comfort Tiffany and John La Farge and invented a fully modern language for ornamental design.

Author Julie Sloan identifies three phases in Wright's evolution toward this exciting idiom. For his earliest windows, of 1885-1898, the master conceived curvilinear Queen Anne-style motifs. In his famed Prairie-period homes of 1900-1910, he placed lambent glass of autumnal palette and complex patterns of chevrons and rectangles. Finally, vanguard European art and architecture helped inspire his most joyous and inventive light screens. In his work of 1911-1923, Wright liberated ornament with his dancing triangles, primary colors, and exuberant asymmetries. In the same years, his windows expanded from the single opening to the casement, the clerestory, and the skylight. These forms and patterns were essential to Wright's revolutionary vision, for they served his unique conception of fluid interior spaces in dynamic dialogue with exterior views.

Including illustrations made especially for this book, Sloan shows how Wright, in her words, expanded the frontiers of stained glass in both its use and its design. Light Screens also uncovers the influences on Wright's ornament-- from Japonisme to Friedrich Froebel's educational exercises-- and presents invaluable insights on period terms for Wright's glass, on his writings about it, on how glass was made in his time, and on claims for his assistants' authorship of certain designs. A concluding chapter, "Beyond Leaded Glass, 1923-1959," surveys this great architect's lifelong fascination with glazing and his continued exploration of the latest technologies.

A companion to this catalogue is Julie L. Sloan, Light Screens: The Complete Leaded-Glass Windows of Frank Lloyd Wright. With over 400 illustrations, that volume is the largest gathering of Wright's windows ever published and the first to survey this oeuvre within his architecture."
Florida Architecture: A Celebration, A History of the Florida Association of Architects, A.I.A. 1912-2000

S. Keith Bailey, Diane D. Greer, and John Howey

"A Celebration of Architects and Architecture, 1912-2000 - presented here is the 88-year history of a professional association of architects and the work of its members. Profusely illustrated with photographs of award-winning projects, both archival and current, the book tells the story of the Florida/Caribbean region's rich architectural history. Beginning with a few native Americans who made modest imprints on the flat Florida landscape, the book ends with a new millennium and an association of architects ready to build the future. This volume chronicles the political and historical events, the styles and technology, the climate and landscape, which have shaped Florida architecture."
Frank Lloyd Wright Design

Maria Costantino

"Frank Lloyd Wright Design displays over 100 full-color reproductions of the finest examples of decorative and utilitarian pieces, showing them in situ, as Frank Lloyd Wright himself intended them to be placed. Details of tiling, stonework, murals, stained glass, built-ins, and other design elements are also depicted, while the informative text puts it all into context. For the many admirers of Frank Lloyd's Wright's work, this book focuses on the elements of style that, when taken together; create a distinctive, modern look that is uniquely that of Frank Lloyd Wright."
Frank Lloyd Wright's Stained Glass & Light Screens

Thomas A. Heinz

"This exquisite representation of Frank Lloyd Wright's lighting treatments is the first comprehensive study on the subject. In captivating color and well-researched commentary, Mr. Heinz captures the essence of Frank Lloyd Wright's genius."
The Vision of Frank Lloyd Wright: A Complete Guide to the Designs of an Architectural Genius

Thomas A. Heinz

Virtually every structure that Wright built is represented in this extensive survey of his life's work. His genius at architectural design enable him to work out extremely complex buildings in his head and translate them on to paper in a matter of hours, as the famous story of his design presentation of Falling Water illustrates. His work continues to draw great admiration and interest to this day. His often tempestuous and sometimes tragic life and career are given full coverage in this book. Hundreds of photos, both archival and recent, chart his amazing work and influence on all who followed. Thomas A. Heinz is a noted Chicago area architect as well as a writer and leading authority on the work of Wright.
50 Favorite Houses by Frank Lloyd Wright

Diane Maddex

"Of the 300 Frank Lloyd Wright houses that were built, award-winning author Diane Maddex has selected 50 that have become worldwide favorites. With insightful text and splendid photographs, Maddex shows how these houses—which include Wright's Oak Park home, the Coonley, Dana and Robie houses from the Prairie period, Fallingwater and Taliesin West—each grew from Wright's fundamental belief that a house should be built in harmony with nature, use natural materials and colors, be designed from within, have the consistency of a finely woven fabric, achieve harmony through unity and be not merely a domicile but a work of art."
Frank Lloyd Wright's House Beautiful

Diane Maddex

"This book features the special relationship Wright had with House Beautiful magazine, a relationship that spanned six decades.

In 1897, the year the magazine began, Wright developed his own concept of "The House Beautiful," in a limited edition masterpiece that detailed his theories of the ideal home. More than a century later, this book presents his concepts, alongside stunning photographs depicting the evolution of Wright's "organic architecture" style, including the Prairie style of the early 1900s, the California textile-block houses of the 1920s, his one-of-a-kind expressive designs (such as Fallingwater), and the simple Usonian houses of the 1940s and 1950s--all of which exemplified the Wrightian principles of unity, simplicity, and respect for nature. Also included are suggestions for bringing his ideas into every home, and a catalog of reproductions of Wright items available for purchase.

Frank Lloyd Wright's House Beautiful is not only a treasure for any Wright fan, but a fascinating history of the architect as seen through the magazine that recognized his trailblazing talents from the beginning."
Wellness Centers: A Guide for the Design Professional

Joan Whaley Gallup

"Bringing together the best aspects of ambulatory care, complementary medicine, and fitness clubs under one roof, wellness centers are poised to become an essential vehicle of healthcare delivery for the 21st century. Although wellness-based programs have been instituted by nearly every hospital system in North America, very little has been published on this rapidly emerging building type.

Wellness Centers enables design professionals and others to understand the fitness and healthcare requirements of these facilities, and to address them effectively in their work.

Providing essential insights into balancing the healthcare and retail demands of wellness centers, Joan Whaley Gallup reviews every step of the planning and development process, addressing project assessment, financing, programming, and marketing. She draws on her extensive expertise in creating wellness centers to cover a full range of development and design considerations, including design guidelines for lobby/waiting areas, clinical space, administrative areas, pools, saunas, and indoor gardens. Finally, an inspiring project portfolio profiles an impressive roster of successful wellness centers from around the world.

With useful information on code compliance, plus floor plans, schematic designs, and more, this book is a vital professional resource for anyone involved in wellness center design, planning, or management.

'The wellness center is the most positive, nurturing, life-affirming building type ever to evolve in the history of healthcare facilities design. . . . By turning inside out the trends of past centuries, we can now focus on wellness. We can create buildings that will nurture and sustain us, healing environments that will serve to support happy, life-enhancing activities. Centers for wellness are centers for life.'-from the Preface

The first book of its kind, Wellness Centers offers design professionals and others complete cutting-edge coverage of these complex new facilities, from planning and development issues to design guidelines and case examples of successful wellness centers from around the world. Written by an architect with extensive experience in the field, this book provides a firm foundation in wellness center design, planning, and management-essential reading for anyone involved in this rapidly growing area of healthcare design."
Frank Lloyd Wright Field Guide: West

Thomas A. Heinz

"The Frank Lloyd Wright Field Guide series provides the first comprehensive visitor's guide to all of Wright's buildings in the US and overseas. Each guide is written and compiled by an acknowledged expert on Frank Lloyd Wright, Thomas A Heinz. With his highly readable and informative style. Heinz presents each building page by page, providing brief histories and background details, information on accessibility and viewing, and directions from Interstate routes. Every entry is accompanied by a photograph and location map produced by the author. There are four books in the Field Guide series: Upper Great Lakes. MetroChicago, West and East. Each guide is arranged geographically, beginning in the northwest and ending in the southeast of the region covered. Full alphabetical and geographical lists enable buildings to be easily accessed either by location or name."
Prairie Style: Houses and Gardens by Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School

Dixie Legler and Christian Korab

Book Jacket Excerpts: "Gazing toward the horizon, they saw the prairie as the perfect metaphor for redefining the American home."

"Prairie Style opens the doors into three dozen of the astonishingly new houses, gardens, and entire communities brought about by this revolutionary band. These sheltering Prairie-style houses, captured in Christian Korab's all-new color photographs, inspired generations of homes to come and changed the shape of suburban America."
Frank Lloyd Wright: The Western Work

Dixie Legler, Scot Zimmerman, and Arthur Dyson

"Although known primarily for his iconic midwestern buildings, Frank Lloyd Wright constructed many of his most ambitious and distinctive works in the western states. The landscape of the West charmed and astounded Wright to such a degree that it fundamentally shifted his concept of organic architecture. Frank Lloyd Wright: The Western Work features 23 of Wright's projects in Washington, Oregon, Utah, Idaho, New Mexico, Arizona, Montana, and Wyoming, presented in lustrous color photographs and archival images. Wright scholar Dixie Legler discusses the history and architecture of each of these sites, which, outside of Taliesin West, are relatively unknown. Frank Lloyd Wright: The Western Work is an essential book for architects and others entranced by Wright's timeless style."
50 Favorite Furnishings by Frank Lloyd Wright

Diane Maddex

"Dozens of full-color photographs capture the splendid furniture, art glass, and decorative metalwork created by America's leading architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, in an accessible volume that discusses Wright's signature designs in terms of his famous architectural interiors."
Treasures of Taliesin: Seventy-Seventy Unbuilt Designs

Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer

"Here we have something old and something new in the field of Frank Lloyd Wright studies. The old is a revised edition of Treasures of Taliesin (LJ 10/1/85), a coffee-table selection of unbuilt designs spanning Wright's lengthy career. Pfeiffer, a Wright apprentice and director of archives at Taliesin West, presents 77 unbuilt projects, which arguably reveal Wright's visionary imagination to a greater degree than do the buildings actually realized. The text is unapologetically laudatory, often beguiling with anecdotes about famous and eccentric clients. Pfeiffer's later Frank Lloyd Wright Drawings (Abrams, 1990) offers a larger sampling of the master's output but is not as focused. The new Frank Lloyd Wright: Europe and Beyond is a collection of ground-breaking essays exploring Wright's influence abroad, edited by Wright scholar Alofsin. He has assembled nine international experts to probe Wright's influence in Europe, the Americas, Iraq, and Japan. Their research corrects misconceptions and oversimplifications that have inevitably grown up around a figure as legendary as Wright. Conclusions, however, are tentative, with further investigation called for. Public libraries already owning Treasures need not purchase the new edition, which is not extensively revised; those owning Treasures and/or Drawings should make sure they have Pfeiffer's well-illustrated survey Frank Lloyd Wright: The Masterworks (Rizzoli, 1993). Academic libraries will want to add Europe and Beyond and should be aware of Alofsin's resurrection of the influential 1910 "Wasmuth monograph," Studies and Executed Buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright (Rizzoli, 1998), which introduced many European architects to Wright."
-David Soltesz, Fairview Park Regional Lib., OH
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie

Melanie Birk

Frank Lloyd Wright's residential architecture in and around Oak Park, Illinois, in the early part of this century constitutes some of the architect's most recognizable and distinctive work. From the Oak Park Home and Studio itself, where Wright lived and practiced during this time, to the signature Robie House in Chicago, the extraordinary work from Wright's Prairie period embodies the intense creativity of his early career. Taking his cue from the vast, virgin grasslands that surrounded the Chicago area, Wright produced homes that reflect the land upon which they were built-- with unbroken roof planes, sheltering eaves, and dramatic, sweeping lines. This volume offers a succinct, site-by-site showcase of Wright's first major contribution to American design: the Prairie House.

Among the homes selected are the Frederick C. Robie House, the Mrs. Thomas Gale House, the William H. Winslow House, and the Dana-Thomas House. Exceptional color photography of Wright's finely wrought interiors-- including his own drafting room at the Home and Studio-- as well as bold exterior perspectives offer readers an inspiring view of Wright's unique architectural mission. With an informative introduction, excerpts from Wright's own writings, and rarely seen archival photographs, Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie is a must for all those interested in Wright's work and this definitive period in American architecture.

"We of the Middle West are living on the prairie. The prairie has a beauty of its own and we should recognize and accentuate this natural beauty, its quiet level."--Frank Lloyd Wright, 1908
Frank Lloyd Wright: Architect

William Cronon, Anthony Alofsin, Kenneth Frampton, Gwendolyn Wright, Terence Riley, and Peter Reed

From the turn of the century until his death in 1959, Frank Lloyd Wright produced an almost uninterrupted stream of projects that redefined the American architectural vision. The most comprehensive summary and appraisal of Wright's achievement ever assembled, with nearly 500 illustrations, including 190 in color, this volume presents an impressive array of works: single family houses that provided images and models for generations of suburban buildings across the United States, community solutions to housing for Depression America, and an astonishing progression of landmark commercial and institutional structures. In these pages appear Wright's most spectacular commissions--among them Fallingwater, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and Tokyo's Imperial Hotel--but also a retrospective selection of other projects from all periods of his enormously productive career. Photographs of actual buildings and of models, plans, and sketches, as well as reproductions of the architect's masterful drawings, many previously unpublished, are all included.