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  The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright

  Neil Levine

  "Neil Levine's study of the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, beginning with his work in Oak Park in the late 1880s and culminating in the construction of the Guggenheim museum in New York and the Marin County Civic Center in the 1950s, if the first comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the architect's entire career since the opening of the Wright Archives over a decade ago. The most celebrated and prolific of modern architects, Wright built more than four hundred buildings and designed at least twice as many more. The characteristic features of his work--the open plan, dynamic space, fragmented volumes, natural materials, and integral structure--established the basic way that we think about modern architecture. For a general audience, this engaging book provides an introduction to Wright's remarkable accomplishments, as seen against the background of his eventful and often tragic life. For the architect or the architectural historian, it will be an important source of new insights into the development of Wright's whole body of work. It integrates biographical and historical material in a chronologically ordered framework that makes sense of his enormously varied career, and it provides over four hundred illustrations running parallel to the text.
  
  
  Levine conveys the meanings of the continuities and changes that he sees I Wright's architecture and thought by focusing successive chapters on his most significant buildings, such as the Winslow House, Taliesin, Hollyhock House, Fallingwater, Tailsen west, and the Guggenheim Museum. A new understanding of the representational imagery and narrative structure of Wright's work, along with a much-needed reconsideration of its historical and contextual underpinnings, gives this study a unique place in the writings on Wright. In contrast to the emphasis a previous generation of critics and historians placed on Wright's earlier buildings, this book offers a broader perspective that sees Wright's later work as the culmination of his earlier efforts and the basis for a new understanding of the centrality of his career to the evolution of modern architecture as a whole."

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  50 Favorite Rooms by Frank Lloyd Wright

  Diane Maddex

  "Profiles fifty different interiors created by architect Frank Lloyd Wright, including living rooms, dining rooms, small spaces, and large buildings."

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  Gaudi of Barcelona

  Lluis Permanyer and Melba Levick

  "The work of Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926) defines the city of Barcelona like no other. Its art-nouveau-style spires and visionary eccentricities bestow their unique character on the skyline and make the city a point of pilgrimage for fans of Gaudí's inimitable, playful style. Gaudí of Barcelona presents the architect's work in Barcelona as it has never been seen before. Vibrant, specially commissioned photographs present the wonders of the Sagrada Família, Casa Milà, and 10 other fantastic creations in Gaudí's home city in unprecedented detail.
  
  Tiled landscape architecture in brilliant colors, organic, plantlike pinnacles and towers, undulating tiled roofs with chimneys and ventilators looming like alien creatures atop seething buildings--these are the features that distinguish the work of Gaudí and speak of his curious relationship with his city. The text investigates this aspect of Gaudí's work, discussing the architect's life and influences, his status as an outsider ahead of his time, and his leading place in Catalan modernism.
  
  With its 178 brilliant photographs of Gaudí's most compelling works, and 13 maps showing their location--as well as an insightful text introducing Gaudí's architectural genius--this is an essential book for anyone who knows and loves Gaudí's work, or for those planning to discover it firsthand in Barcelona."

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  Frank Lloyd Wright: An American Architect for the Twentieth Century

  Robin Langley Sommer

  "Recognized as a dominant figure in the history of modern architecture and the greatest design influenced in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century, Frank Lloyd Wright created, during his long and prolific career, a unique body of work that endures to this day. Beginning in 1889 with the design for his own house in Oak Park, Illinois, and continuing with hundreds of designs for residential, commercial, ecclesiastical, educational and civic structures, Wright's varied architecture is unified only by the underlying organized principles of change and innovation. Revolutionizing residential architecture with the disparate expressions of his simple creed, "out of the ground and into the light! Wright's houses feature a sense of unity and privacy, an a free flow of interior space. Wright sought synthesis in his projects by designing whenever possible, everything from furniture, art glass and lighting fixtures to table lines, carpets and carports. In his Prairies Houses, textile-block structures and Usonian houses, culminating in his masterpiece, Fallingwater, Wright experimented with forms, materials and technology in ever-evolving designs. Wright designed such ambitious commercial masterworks as the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, the Arizona Biltmore Hotel, the S.C. Johnson and Son Administration Building and Research Tower, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum-the alter for which he is perhaps best known. This volume pays tribute to the life and works of frank Lloyd Wright with more than 180 photographs illustrating 60 selected buildings, complemented by a descriptive and incisive text. "

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  Frank Lloyd Wright: A Gatefold Portfolio

  Robin Langley Sommer and Balthazar Korab

  "This volume offers a unique perspective on sixteen of Frank Lloyd Wright's greatest and most adventurous works. Each eight-page gatefold -- opening out to almost three feet -- presents the author's original rendering in full size, allowing readers to appreciate in detail Wright's original conception of the building."

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  The Johnson Foundation: The history of the people who gathered in Wingspread to talk and plan and dare to make the world better

  Craig Canine

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  "Conferences seem a frail weapon to wield against formidable dragons like threats to peace and the neglect of children, but, well used, they have a power to instruct, motivate, and mobilize people for tasks that require attention."

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  The Robie House of Frank Lloyd Wright

  Joseph Connors

  "The Robie House in Chicago is one of the world's most famous houses, a masterpiece from the end of Frank Lloyd Wright's early period and a classic example of the Prairie House. This book is intended as a companion for the visitor to the house, but it also probes beneath the surface to see how the design took shape in the mind of the architect. Wright's own writings, rare working drawings from the period, and previously unpublished photographs of the house in construction help the reader look over the shoulder of the architect at work. Beautiful new photographs of the Robie House and related Wright houses have been specially taken to illustrate the author's points, and a bibliography on Wright is provided."

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  The California Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright

  David Gebhard

  "Now available in paperback, The California Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright (first published as Romanza) is the first book to focus exclusively on Wright's commercial and residential work in the Golden State, from the 1909 Stewart House to the Marin County Civic Center designed 50 years later. These timelessly elegant and striking buildings -- 24 in all -- are known collectively as Wright's romanza, or romance, acknowledging the architect's love for California. Each of these classic edifices dynamically demonstrates Wright's genius for reflecting and enhancing the natural terrain with his creations. Incisive essays provide a critical overview and history of each structure and are generously illustrated with photographs, floor plans, and Wright's own renderings. This volume is an essential visual reference work that will appeal to anyone fascinated by the oeuvre of the 20th century's most influential architect."

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  Frank Lloyd Wright Field Guide: Metrochicago

  Thomas A. Heinz and Frank Lloyd Wright

  "The Frank Lloyd Wright Field Guide series provides the first comprehensive visitors' guide to all of Wright's buildings in the United States. 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."

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  Frank Lloyd Wright Master Builder

  David Larkin and Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer

  "This book presents twenty-five of the most renowned and significant buildings of America's premier architect, from his early Prairie work in Oak Park, Illinois, in the 1890s to his daring creations of the 1940s and 1950s.
  
  Published in association with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, this superbly illustrated volume features previously unpublished photographs for which renowned architectural photographers Michael Freeman and Paul Rocheleau gained unprecedented access to some of Wright's masterworks. The book examines in unsurpassed detail a selection of Wright's architecture that covers the phenomenal range of his work, including such internationally famous buildings as the Home and Studio in Oak Park, Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Arizona, Fallingwater in Mill Run, Pennsylvania, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, as well as several lesser-known residences such as the Auldbrass Plantation in South Carolina and the Kenneth Laurent house in Rockford, Illinois.
  
  The works featured here are succinctly documented by one of Wright's former apprentices, with text that details the development and execution of each commission. Also included throughout is a selection of Wright's extensive writings, unpublished talks, and private letters."

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  Frank Lloyd Wright: Architect

  Robert McCarter

  This book provides a comprehensive critical overview of the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, one of the great masters of modern architecture. Beautifully illustrated with a wealth of photographs of many of Wright's best known buildings, Frank Lloyd Wright explores the key themes in the architect's work, presenting the consistent and systematic qualities that underlie all of his designs.

  Robert McCarter's text analyses Wright's work chronologically, emphasizing key designs and works relating to them, in the parallel to an examination of several predominant themes active in Wright's design work, and singled out by Wright as being of fundamental importance in his understanding of architecture. The themes of space and the spatial experience of the user are thus examined, alongside a discussion of construction and a coherent tectonic order, and an investigation of the relationship between Wright's architecture and the landscape.

  An extensive selection of archival drawings and photographs, clear redrawn plans and colour photographs, together with a complete chronology of Wright's buildings and projects, compiled by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, Director of the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives, make this book an indispensable reference work of this renowned architect.

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  Visions of Wright

  Terence Riley and Farrell Grehan

  "Frank Lloyd Wright's great buildings have become part of the American landscape in the decades since his death. Veteran photographer Farrell Grehan captures their appearance today, focusing on the interaction of structures with light and space and with their natural surroundings. Forty-eight sites are covered, accompanied by brief quotations from Wright that illuminate his creative thought. Wright's three principal residences. the Oak Park, Illinois, home and studio; Taliesin; and Taliesin West, near Scottsdale, Arizona, are featured, and the book includes the Monona Terrace Civic Center in Madison, Wisconsin, which opened in 1997, some forty years after its design. Terence Riley's introduction examines Wright's legacy with special attention to the importance of materials in his work."

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  Unity Temple

  Frank Lloyd Wright and Robert McCarter

  "Unity Temple represents the high point of Frank Lloyd Wright's 'Prairie' period. Still in immaculate condition today, Unity Temple is ordered on a rigorous system of proportion, determined on both exterior and interior by the measurements of the central interior sanctuary space. On the outside this concrete building is rendered as a cubic mass of stone grey; inside, Wright constructed the opposite: a space defined by concrete rendered as floating coloured planes, painted in quiet, muted colours. The complexity of geometries and interlocking spaces and forms at Unity Temple is outstanding, and invites the viewer to see the act of building as sacred, and to experience the building as a sacred place."

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  Richard Meier Houses

  Paul Goldberger and Sir Richard Rogers

  "This oversized book presents 14 built American houses by one of the world's most influential and widely emulated architects. New color interior and exterior photography as well as drawings, plans, clients' personal reflections, and the architect's insight accompany each house. With a chronology of all of Meier's built and unbuilt residential projects, this is a most beautiful and valuable reference for admirers of his work." - Amazon

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  Frank Lloyd Wright Field Guide Upper Great Lakes: Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan

  Thomas A. Heinz and Frank Lloyd Wright

  "The Frank Lloyd Wright Field Guide series provides the first comprehensive visitors' guide to all of Wright's buildings in the United States. 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."

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  Lost Wright: Frank Lloyd Wright's Vanished Masterpieces

  Carla Lind

  "Five hundred buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright were built during the architect's extraordinary seventy-year career. But as difficult as it is to believe, one-fifth of them have been demolished, burned, or destroyed by neglect. Lost Wright tells the compelling story of these special buildings - how they came to be, what they looked like, and how they met their end. Each tale documents genius on one side and often poor stewardship or disaster on the other, poignantly, underscoring the importance of saving Wright's remaining legacy."

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  Casa California: Spanish Style Houses from Santa Barbara to San Clemente

  Elizabeth McMillian and Melba Levick

  "The Spanish-style architecture of Southern California's seaside estates, canyon villas, and courtyard bungalows is central to its romantic image, one that has traditionally evoked a Mediterranean paradise. The details of this inexhaustively rich style-- ornate wrought iron and wood balconies, colorful tiles, graceful arches, and palm-dotted gardens-- reflect the region's Spanish, Mexican, and southwestern history and culture as well as its popular outdoor lifestyle.
  
  This book showcases Southern California's most historically significant and beautifully preserved Spanish-revival houses of this century. Twenty-one private homes built between 1922 and 1991 are featured in stunning color photography that captures exterior and interior architectural details, Spanish and Mexican antique furnishings and folk art, and lush landscaping and tiled fountains. Among these are the Adamson House in Malibu, with its extraordinary collection of custom tile from Malibu Potteries; the contemporary Greenberg House in Brentwood, by Ricardo Legorreta; The Andalusia Courtyard Apartments in Hollywood; and Casa Pacifica, the former home of Richard Nixon, overlooking the ocean in San Clemente. Brief narratives highlight the history of each building and its design influences on the Spanish-revival movement in California."

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  Frank Lloyd Wright Drawings

  Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer

  "Discusses in depth the drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright, focusing on his earliest work at the turn of the century and his plans for public buildings in the 1950s."

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  The House Beautiful

  Frank Lloyd Wright and William Herman Winslow

  "For the architect, historian, and scholar, the treatise casts light into yet another early crevice in Wright's career, adding one more clue to the comprehension of the mercuric life of this complex master of American art and letters. But perhaps the most positive effect of reprinting THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL at the close of our very different century is the chance that it will once again remind us of the true import of the home, garden, and family." John Arthur Book Forward Excerpt.

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  Dana House: Frank Lloyd Wright

  Thomas H. Heinz

  "The Dana House, Illinois, built in 1904, was one of the most extravagant productions of Wright's prolific Prairie Era. This magnificent, sprawling house - no expense was spared - was built for Susan Lawrence Dana and contains the largest and most varied collection of Wright-designed furnishings. Unlike the other Wright buildings of this era, the decorative arts were well represented and include terra cotta sculptures and fountains, murals and an Art Deco plaster frieze surrounding the entire second floor. The house holds the largest concentration of Wright furnishings in any Wright building or museum. There is little photographic material available - during the house's first 40 years very few photographs were taken and these were subsequently lost. The house was then used as a medical publisher's office and for the following 45 years few people had access to its incredible interior. The Dana House has now been restored to its original splendor and is open to the public."

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  Frank Lloyd Wright's Dining Rooms

  Carla Lind

  Frank Lloyd Wright's Dining Rooms pictures more than two dozen of the architect's best designs and traces the changes in his own way of thinking about how people should dine. In his first house, his 1889 home in Oak Park, Illinois, Wright secluded the dining experience in its own room. Over the years he gradually eliminated dining room walls, opening them both to other spaces and to the natural world outside. Whatever form a dining area took, Wright always controlled its built-in elements and furnishings to create a totally harmonious environment.

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  Frank Lloyd Wright's Fireplaces

  Carla Lind

  Frank Lloyd Wright's Fireplaces captures the appeal that hearths held for Wright, who loved "to see the fire burning deep in the masonry of the house itself." Most of his fireplace were brick or stone, and they were massive - cavelike centers that beckoned everyone with their warmth and light. Examples here show the many variations Wright achieved from his earliest work in the Chicago area through the Prairie houses, the Chicago textile-block designs, the Usonian residence, masterpieces like Fallingwater, and his own three homes, which together received forty-four fireplaces.

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  Frank Lloyd Wright's Furnishings

  Carla Lind

  Frank Lloyd Wright's Furnishings introduces the wealth of interior objects that bear the Wright imprint - from built-in and freestanding furniture to lighting, textiles, decorative panels, metalwork, tableware, sculpture, murals, and mosaics. Nothing was too minor for Wright's attention, not even clothing for the woman of the house. All his decorative arts were inspired by nature and geometric patterns, and all were designed to achieve simplicity, unity, and harmony. Together they created an overriding sense of repose - the key, in Wright's mind, to a proper home.

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  The Prairie School: Design Vision for the Midwest

  The Art Institute Of Chicago

  This special issue of The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies explores the work of the Prairie School, the world-renowned architectural movement that began in Chicago at the turn of the century. An introduction to the history of the Prairie School is followed by three articles examining works in the museum's departments of architecture and American arts, and in the Ryerson and Burham Libraries at the Art Institute. Two other essays in this issue discuss a rare textile sample book designed by FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, and the remarkable career of the Prairie School architect and designer MARION MAHONY GRIFFIN.

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  Frank Lloyd Wright: Chicagoland

  Thomas A. Heinz

  "A portfolio of Frank Lloyd Wright's buildings in the Chicago area, featuring Prairie style architecture."