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  Frank Lloyd Wright: West

  Thomas A. Heinz

  "A portfolio of Frank Lloyd Wright's buildings in the Chicago area, featuring Prairie style architecture. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or"

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  Frank Lloyd Wright' Lost Buildings

  Carla Lind

  Frank Lloyd Wright's Lost Buildings is the first book to trace some of these major losses. Poignant illustrations document Wright's monumental achievements that are no longer around: the world-renowned Imperial Hotel, the festive Midway Gardens, the awe-inspiring Larkin Building. Formative, early designs by the young architect - a boathouse, a golf club, a courtyard apartment building - briefly come back to life, along with the architect's own desert camp and houses that helped Wright gain worldwide fame.

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  Frank Lloyd Wright's Life and Homes

  Carla Lind

  Frank Lloyd Wright's Life and Homes captures the essence of this colorful architect and his innovative designs. Engaging stories trace his youth, his years of success, and his amazingly productive life. Wright's own three homes - the first in Oak Park, Illinois, and the two Taliesins in Wisconsin and Arizona - served as laboratories for his progressive ideas. Dramatic color photographs show these incomparable places from which so much of his work was drawn.

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  Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie Houses

  Carla Lind

  Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie Houses details the origins of the Prairie Style, shows typical features and furnishings, and walks through ten of the most well known and fascinating examples - icons such as the Dana-Thomas, Robie, Coonley, and May houses. Throughout, sparkling art glass patterns, sturdy furnishings, natural colors, and shapes that reflect the American landscape underscore the timeless attraction of Wright's houses.

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  Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian Houses

  Carla Lind

  Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian Houses presents a dozen of these forward-looking houses that Wright designed to fit the lifestyles of average Americans. With their horizontal plans on one floor, open living spaces, walls of windows, carports, and patios opened to the outdoors, they became models for so many houses that now cover the American landscape. Whatever the means of the owners or the size of their house, Wright sought to create homes that brought dignity to the residents and the environment alike.

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  Frank Lloyd Wright Residences for America: Drawings from the Wasmuth (1910) and American System-Built (1915-1917) Folios

  Frank Lloyd Wright and Thomas Morley

  "This book of postcards presents thirty elegant architectural drawings by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959). Half are designs selected from 'Studies and Executed Buildings', a rare and prized collection of Wright's drawings published in 1910d by the distinguished German architectural publisher Ernst Wasmuth. Drawings in this portfolio emphasize Wright's Prairie Style buildings (characterized by low horizontal lines and projecting eaves and blending with the rhythms of the surrounding prairie landscape). The Wasmuth drawings earned Wright a solid reputation in Europe and greatly influenced architects of the day. Also included are examples of Wright's 'American System-Built Houses', designs he executed for the Richards Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, between 1915-1917. These designs were for prefabricated housing and, as such, are a very early documentation of Wright's lifelong preoccupation with the issue of affordable housing in America."

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  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Spencer Hart

  FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT contains more than 100 full-color and black-and-white photographs of exteriors and interiors of Wright's most admired buildings and many of his architectural plans and drawings. Included are some fascinating designs that were never executed, such as the plans for the San-Marcos-in-the-Desert resort complex in Chandler, Arizona. The informative text expands and develops themes already apparent in these photographs and drawings, and give the reader a truer understanding of Wright's particular genius.

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  Frank Lloyd Wright: East

  Thomas A. Heinz

  "From Fallingwater to the Guggenheim Museum, 30 color photographs celebrate a broad range of Frank Lloyd Wright styles in the East. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or."

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  Frank Lloyd Wright: Furniture

  Thomas A. Heinz

  "Although Heinz says that much of Wright's furniture was comfortable, these 30 color photographs clearly show that, 'More than anything else, the designs were to complement the spaces they were intended to occupy.' Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or."

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  Frank Lloyd Wright: Midwest

  Thomas A. Heinz

  "A color portfolio of private homes and public buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in his home region. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or."

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  Frank Lloyd Wright: Stained Glass

  Thomas A. Heinz

  "Twenty-eight captioned color photographs of American architect Wright's iridescent stained glass windows. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or"

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  The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright: A Guide to Extant Structures

  William Allin Storrer Ph.D.

  "The GUIDE to the built work of America's best-known architect, Frank Lloyd Wright."

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  The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion

  William Allin Storrer

  Presenting a range of Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture, this title features a description of each building that details the history of its design, construction, and ownership. Organized chronologically, it includes nearly 1,000 photographs, elevations, historical images, and floor plans that show changes in Wright's preliminary plans.

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  Frank Lloyd Wright The Masterworks

  Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, and David Larkin

  "Gathers photographs of and critical commentary on thirty-eight of the famed architect's most significant buildings, including the Unity Temple and the Guggenheim museum."

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  Classic Cracker: Florida's Wood-Frame Vernacular Architecture

  Ronald W. Haase

  "Winner of the 1993 LoPresti Award for excellence in art publishing

  Cracker homes take the best advantage of the climate and terrain of Florida. This book provides a history of Florida wood-frame architecture, from the simplest 'single-pen' homesteads to the latest homes at Seaside, and includes several floor plans for new adaptations of classic Cracker architecture. Learn about the double-pen house, the classic dogtrot, the four-square Georgian, the Cracker townhouse, and much more with this exploration of Florida's original architecture.

  Includes several floor plans for new adaptations of classic Cracker architecture."

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  Architectural Monographs No. 18: Frank Lloyd Wright

  Thomas A. Heinz

  "In a major new contribution on the work of this iconoclastic and flamboyant architect, who is widely regarded as the greatest that America has ever produced, Thomas A Heinz - both an architect and writer - uses his extensive experience in the restoration of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings to present aspects of them that have previously gone unnoticed. Concentrating primarily on residences, the author uses his own photographs to examine construction techniques that are just as unorthodox as the architect himself, showing that Wright's approach to detailing was pragmatic, rather than conventional and was based on traditional common sense.

  As Heinz writes in his introductory essay to this pictorial survey, 'Frank Lloyd Wright's buildings are not just differently designed, they are differently constructed. Wright had to invent or re-invent many items and systems to bring about his new art. Every design, every hidden detail, is evidence of Wright's unique intelligence...Other architects who designed in the Wrightian mode often were more consistent than the one who originated the style, and, in fact, some of their creations are more apt to appear as the quintessential Prairie House than are many of Wright's with his little quirks and exceptions.'"

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  "At Taliesin" Newspaper Columns by Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship

  Randolph C. Henning

  "'At Taliesin,' a series of newspaper columns written by Frank Lloyd Wright and his early Taliesin apprentices, craftsmen, and workers, was featured in several southern Wisconsin newspapers from 1934 through 1937.

  The newspaper column first appeared in February 1934, shortly after the Taliesin Fellowship had been formed by Wright in 1932. Resulting from a simple and practical need to advertise the weekly Taliesin film event to a greater audience, the column grew into a format that presented a kaleidoscopic view of life at Taliesin in the Fellowship’s early years.

  Of the 285 columns written, 112 are included here. Several are from the 31 columns Wright wrote in his own 'organic' style. The resulting collection provides an intimate glimpse of Wright and his youthful Fellowship during a crucial period in Wright’s own life—a time when he grew from creative inactivity to his final years of creative resurgence. Containing much original material that has been all but forgotten, this volume represents an important contribution to the history and understanding of Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship. Fifty eight contemporary photographs are included to augment the columns. The columns document and confirm facts and correct historical inaccuracies and misinformation. This book will prove invaluable to Wright scholars, biographers, and enthusiasts."

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  Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House

  Donald Hoffmann

  Donald Hoffmann, noted Wright scholar and architectural critic, draws on a wealth of primary documents and his own direct observation to re-create the not only the turbulent history behind the house but to invite a true appreciation of its myriad aesthetic and architectural satisfactions. Arising in solitary splendor on a hillside in Hollywood, the building reminds some of a Maya temple; to others it suggests a miniature palace of an ancient civilization. Wright called it his 'California Romanza.'"

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  The Wright Style: Recreating the Spirit of Frank Lloyd Wright

  Carla Lind

  If you've ever wanted to step inside a house designed by frank Lloyd Wright or if you've ever dreamed of living in one The Wright Style offers the next best thing: an extraordinary look inside dozens of Wright's incomparable houses, all of them filled with countless inspiring ideas from America's favorite architect.

  
  From "pure" Wright houses to homes where his decorative magic has been mixed with related styles, the book captures the essence of the architect's timeless designs the spaces, the textures, the colors, the light, the furniture, the special features that all say Frank Lloyd Wright. As the magnificent houses here show, each of Wright's buildings was a complex composition of many interrelated elements; he regarded them as symphonies. Wright designed not just the shell, but everything inside as well: furniture, skylights, art glass windows, light fixtures, textiles, carpets, wall murals, decorative accessories, even the landscaping.
  Illustrating how Wright affected and inspired other houses, The Wright Style also presents interpretations of Wright's principles by some of his followers and apprentices providing a guided walk through a century of his unsurpassed influence on design. And for those who love Wright but who cannot live in complete, authentic rooms or purchase antique Wright furnishings, the book's catalogue of products makes it possible at least to bring a touch of the Wright style home.

  
  "Wright's ideas have so permeated our architectural world that we have lost track of the source," writes author Carla Lind. "His open floor plans led to family rooms, kitchens open to living areas, indoor spaces open to outdoor living spaces, garden rooms, decks, and carports. His use of glass opened window walls and brought generous amounts of light and inspiring vistas into rooms. He altered America's collective subconscious. By bringing together many elements and inspirations, most neither new nor original, he was able to synthesize fresh new forms that reflected the character of the nation."

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  The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright: A Guide to Extant Structures

  William Allin Storrer Ph.D.

  "The GUIDE to the built work of America's best-known architect, Frank Lloyd Wright."

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  Frank Lloyd Wright & the Prairie School in Wisconsin: An Architectural Touring Guide

  Kristin Visser

  "Here is the first comprehensive guide to the Wisconsin buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright, of interest and value to all fans of Wright and of architecture in general. The author describes 46 Wright-designed buildings, as well as 36 buildings of other important architects of the Prairie School, a distinctively American architectural style. With this guide, you can tour any number of Prairie School buildings, stay in Prairie School bed-and-breakfast inns, even rent a Wright-designed lakeside cottage for the weekend.

  The book is well illustrated with more than a hundred photographs, both current and historic, and includes practical information for the traveler.

  The author provides histories of the design and construction of the buildings, physical descriptions, a measure of their architectural importance, their places in the architect's work, and special features that the visitor might observe. The author also includes a brief biography of Wright, placing him in the Wisconsin context, and a short history of the Prairie School, including individual sketches of its best-known Wisconsin practitioners.

  For all fans of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School, and for all travelers who want to get more out of their trips to Wisconsin, this book will soon become a trusted and well-used companion."

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  Guide to Frank Lloyd Wright's California

  Scott Zimmerman and Arthur Dyson

  Frank Lloyd Wright is recognized as the "father of modern architecture," an authentic American genius whose creative output spanned nearly seventy years. To bring people closer to the earth and its elements, argued Wright, a structure should seek to draw the outside in. His non-traditional angles, glass walls, and cantilevered decks and roofs work dramatic magic on the varied land- and seascapes of California.

  In this book are twenty-four examples. From the "Hollyhock House" in Los Angeles to the Marin County Civic Center in San Rafael and Pilgrim Congregational Church in Redding, Zimmerman's photographs, clear instructions, maps, and succinct project descriptions locate sites in Northern California, Southern California, and the Central Valley. Information about how, when, and whether or not to photograph the sites, tour the buildings and approach the owners is also included.

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  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Maria Costantino

  In the pantheon of American architectural gods, Frank Lloyd Wright is lauded above all others. Not only did he enjoy greater fame in the United States than any architect before him, but also he was the first American architect to exert influence on an international scale.

  Wright's career began in 1887 in Chicago, where he worked in the office of Louis Sullivan, the most progressive American architect of his day. From Sullivan, Wright learned much about new materials such as concrete and steel-framing that he would later use in realizing many of his innovative design ideas. Wright's practice as an independent architect really took off in the first years of the twentieth century, when he unveiled his plans for the Prairie House. With its flexile, open-plan design and large, sloping roofs (a Wright trademark), the Prairie House was hugely popular. Many years later Wright was to extend and develop the idea of the Prairie House into the Usonian House. These flat-rooted structures broke down the distinction between the outside and the inside worlds, with walls and doors of glass that looked and opened out onto gardens. The interiors, often with furniture designed by Wright, were infinitely flexible, with movable screens instead of walls.

  Wright was equally in demand for grand public buildings as for domestic ones. In 1936 he designed the headquarters of the Johnson Wax Company in Racine, Wisconsin. Wright believed in the sanctity of the workplace, and the building is without conventional windows with their distracting views. Inside, lilypad columns rise to the ceiling, reaffirming Wright's claim that all his buildings, even those built of concrete, were "organic." HIs final masterpiece, designed when he was nearly ninety, was Soloman R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. This futuristic structure is designed around a gently spiraling ramp, a shape which is repeated in the curving, windowless walls of the exterior.

  Frank Lloyd Wright presents a panorama of his long and varied career. An introduction setting his work in context is complemented by commentary on his finest buildings and a selection of stunning photographs, mostly in color.

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  Craftsman-Style Houses

  Fine Homebuilding

  "Aimed at the amateur as well as the professional, this practical book contains a wealth of innovative design ideas to help you renovate your home. The book is compromised of 28 articles all filled with workable design ideas. They cover new constructions and renovations, seaside resorts and cozy bungalows, larger houses and small spa rooms. Each project shares the craftsman style's deep appreciation of natural materials, honest detail and fine craftmanship."

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  The Meeting House: Heritage and Vision

  Mary Jane Hamilton

  "The Meeting House: Heritage and Vision by Mary Jane Hamilton. 1991 paperback published by The Friends of the Meeting House, Madison, Wisconsin. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and diagrams."