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Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1907-1913
Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer and Yukio Futagawa
Excerpt from Book Jacket:
"The development of Modern Architecture has been strongly influenced by the accomplishment of Frank Lloyd Wright. His professional career as an architect spanned more than seventy years and produced more than 400 buildings.
With the generous cooperation of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, we are able to present to you the first complete works of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Volumes 1-8 are monographs which chronologically survey the development of Wright's architectural style. Illustrations consist of photographs and drawings of completed buildings and relevant projects."
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Frank Lloyd Wright Preliminary Studies 1933-1959
Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer and Yukio Futagawa
Excerpt from Book Jacket:
"The development of Modern Architecture has been strongly influenced by the accomplishment of Frank Lloyd Wright. His professional career as an architect spanned more than seventy years and produced more than 400 buildings.
With the generous cooperation of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, we are able to present to you the first complete works of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Volumes 9-11 present selected preliminary studies that were executed in the course of developing Wright's significant projects, most of which are published for the first time. we are proud to present these drawings which reveal the architect's extraordinary imagination and creativity."
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How to Draw Trees: Drawing Shrubs, Trees, and Landscapes
Frederick J. Garner
40 pages of annotated drawings of trees, landscapes, and different plants in a multitude of different art styles.
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Frank Lloyd Wright: Architecture and Nature
Donald Hoffmann
Profusely illustrated study of nature — especially the prairie — on Wright's designs for Fallingwater, Robie House, Guggenheim Museum, other masterpieces.
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Falling Water: A Frank Lloyd Wright Country House
Edgar Kauffmann Jr
"A personal record of Wright's domestic masterpiece, a home which becomes an integral part of its natural setting."
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Frank Lloyd Wright and Johnson Wax Buildings
Jonathan Lipman
"Thoroughly researched study of the design and construction of this radical, inspiring workplace draws on much unpublished archival material. From the genesis of the structurally unique Administration Building — its design development, innovations, and furnishings — to the construction and completion of the Research Towers, Lipman presents a wealth of information."
"Chronicles the design and construction of the Johnson Wax buildings in Racine, Wisconsin, long considered among Wright's masterpieces."
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Frank Lloyd Wright: Letters to Clients
Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer
"LETTERS TO CLIENTS is the third volume in our 'Frank Lloyd Wright Letters Trilogy,' all published by The Press at California State University Press, Fresno. The first one, LETTERS TO APPRENTICES (1982) focused upon Frank Lloyd Wright as a teacher. LETTERS TO ARCHITECTS (1984) dealt in the main with Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural principles, ideas and ideals. In LETTERS TO CLIENTS Frank Lloyd Wright is seen at work, getting his buildings built. Here all of the principles, all of the creativity, all of the innovations and efforts to get them down on paper are spread out for the reader to see.
From the hundreds of clients in his lifetime, and the thousands of letters to an from them, the letters to clients presented here focus upon sixteen representative buildings. These include large buildings and small, early ones and late, buildings for easy clients and for difficult ones, even an unbuilt project for a colorful Hollywood personality. The buildings range from the world famous Fallingwater built for Edgar Kaufmann to the near anonymous gem of a Pauson house that burned two years after construction.
The letters selected for this volume reveal, from the inside as it were, the actual creation of works by the greatest architect of our century. They allow us to share in the inspiration and, at least as important, in the bedrock know-how that made those buildings function. The artist who envisioned the streamlined Johnson Administration Building also innovated all steel office furniture for better fireproofing. The architect who built the magical Hollyhock house also developed new and efficient methods for cleaning public restrooms. As these letters suggest, there seemed to be nothing in the world of architecture that Frank Lloyd Wright could not do. And he usually did it first.
While LETTERS TO CLIENTS runs the full gamut of Frank Lloyd Wright's creativity, there is one significant omission: the Guggenheim Museum. The seventeen years struggle to get that building built is, however, more the stuff of drama than of architecture. Its small mountain of correspondence is a volume in itself, and essentially a statement in human terms. It is therefore being published separately as THE GUGGENHEIM CORRESPONDENCE, with introductions and commentary by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (The Press at California State University, Fresno, 1986)."
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Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1887-1901
Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer and Yukio Futagawa
Excerpt from Book Jacket:
"The development of Modern Architecture has been strongly influenced by the accomplishment of Frank Lloyd Wright. His professional career as an architect spanned more than seventy years and produced more than 400 buildings.
With the generous cooperation of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, we are able to present to you the first complete works of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Volumes 1-8 are monographs which chronologically survey the development of Wright's architectural style. Illustrations consist of photographs and drawings of completed buildings and relevant projects."
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Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1937-1941
Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer and Yukio Futagawa
Excerpt from Book Jacket:
"The development of Modern Architecture has been strongly influenced by the accomplishment of Frank Lloyd Wright. His professional career as an architect spanned more than seventy years and produced more than 400 buildings.
With the generous cooperation of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, we are able to present to you the first complete works of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Volumes 1-8 are monographs which chronologically survey the development of Wright's architectural style. Illustrations consist of photographs and drawings of completed buildings and relevant projects."
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Frank Lloyd Wright Preliminary Studies 1917-1932
Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer and Yukio Futagawa
Excerpt from Book Jacket:
"The development of Modern Architecture has been strongly influenced by the accomplishment of Frank Lloyd Wright. His professional career as an architect spanned more than seventy years and produced more than 400 buildings.
With the generous cooperation of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, we are able to present to you the first complete works of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Volumes 9-11 present selected preliminary studies that were executed in the course of developing Wright's significant projects, most of which are published for the first time. we are proud to present these drawings which reveal the architect's extraordinary imagination and creativity."
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Florida, My Eden
Frederic B. Stresau
Exotic and native plants for use in tropic and subtropic landscape.
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Treasures of Taliesin: Seventy-Six Unbuilt Designs
Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright believed that his unbuilt designs were the most interesting of his works. Here are 106 color plates of his drawings for 76 unexecuted designs. Twenty-nine of the drawings have never been published.
Pfeiffer has created a visual history of the development of Wright’s work that extends in time from 1895 to 1959 and in architectural interest from his admonition to Franklin Watkins to “use cadmium plated screws with an electrical screwdriver” to secure the cypress siding of his studio-residence to a description of the 26-foot drawing for The Mile High Building that was exhibited on September 17, 1956.
Wright argued then that “This is the future of the tall building in the American city. Level Manhattan to one large green, like Central Park, and erect a few of these well spaced apart and you have the congregation desired by city work and city life, but surrounded with trees, fields, parks and streams.”
Pfeiffer draws on his long association with Wright to describe the circumstances surrounding the germination of each project, characterize the personalities involved, and explain what went wrong and why. The stories include political intrigue and assassination, as well as intimate glimpses of personalities such as Mike Todd and Ayn Rand, and a poignant recollection of Marilyn Monroe, who wanted an entire floor of her planned home with Arthur Miller for their children. There is even a residence for a mysterious client whose identity was known only by Wright.
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Studies and Executed Buildings
Frank Lloyd Wright and Vincent Scully
"In 1910-11 the distinguished German architectural publisher Ernst Wasmuth issued a pair of elegant folios covering the work of Frank Lloyd Wright to that date. The "Wasmuth portfolios," which permanently secured Wright's reputation in Europe and had enormous influence on the architects of the day, have since become world-famous and highly prized by collectors, scholars, and followers of Wright's career. The first of these, a selection of presentation and working drawings of both executed and unexecuted designs, and a catalogue raisonne, is now reprinted in its original format, along with a new introduction commissioned especially for this edition by acclaimed architecutral historian Vincent Scully.
The buildings of these years were those of Wright's Oak Park period, roughly 1893-1910, the years perhaps most crucial to the architect's development, in which the principles of design and innovations with which he is identified were first realized and in which some of his most famous buildings were created. Highlights of this period include the Prairie houses, of which Robie House is one of the most celebrated examples."
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Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1914-1923
Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer and Yukio Futagawa
Excerpt from Book Jacket:
"The development of Modern Architecture has been strongly influenced by the accomplishment of Frank Lloyd Wright. His professional career as an architect spanned more than seventy years and produced more than 400 buildings.
With the generous cooperation of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, we are able to present to you the first complete works of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Volumes 1-8 are monographs which chronologically survey the development of Wright's architectural style. Illustrations consist of photographs and drawings of completed buildings and relevant projects."
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Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1924-1936
Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer and Yukio Futagawa
Excerpt from Book Jacket:
"The development of Modern Architecture has been strongly influenced by the accomplishment of Frank Lloyd Wright. His professional career as an architect spanned more than seventy years and produced more than 400 buildings.
With the generous cooperation of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, we are able to present to you the first complete works of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Volumes 1-8 are monographs which chronologically survey the development of Wright's architectural style. Illustrations consist of photographs and drawings of completed buildings and relevant projects."
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Frank Lloyd Wright Preliminary Studies 1889-1916
Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer and Yukio Futagawa
Excerpt from Book Jacket:
"The development of Modern Architecture has been strongly influenced by the accomplishment of Frank Lloyd Wright. His professional career as an architect spanned more than seventy years and produced more than 400 buildings.
With the generous cooperation of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, we are able to present to you the first complete works of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Volumes 9-11 present selected preliminary studies that were executed in the course of developing Wright's significant projects, most of which are published for the first time. we are proud to present these drawings which reveal the architect's extraordinary imagination and creativity."
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Frank Lloyd Wright Architectural Drawings and Decorative Art
Frank Lloyd Wright
Catalog of an exhibition held at Fischer Fine Art Ltd., June 27-Aug. 30, 1985, and at other locations in Europe.
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Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House: The Illustrated Story of an Architectural Masterpiece
Donald Hoffmann
"Frank Lloyd Wright firmly believed that 'life could be formed anew if new form could be brought to its setting, architecture.' His revolt against customary architectural design was shared by rugged individualist Fred C. Robie, who chose Wright to build his dream house in 1908 — a structure that was eventually named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. In this painstakingly researched and illuminating account of the design and construction of the Robie home, a noted architectural authority presents an in-depth study remarkable for clarity and thoroughness.
At age 28, Robie had become a highly successful businessman who conceived the idea of building a grand home in his native Chicago. He insisted on a design incorporating features that were innovative for the day: hallways and stairwells situated to conserve valuable space, rooms that suggested feelings of airiness, and narrow trimmings on doorways and windows, among others. Robie's wish to shape space as a means of personal expression meshed with Wright's own feelings and spirit. The two strong-willed men formed a perfect union: Robie had found his architect and Wright his ideal client.
Drawing on revealing family documents, including a 1958 interview with Robie, and a host of other sources, the author has compiled an authoritative photo-history, enabling the reader to witness each stage and various transformations of a landmark of modern architecture. The text is enhanced by 160 carefully selected illustrations, including perspectives and elevations, cross-sectional drawings, floor plans, designs for windows, carpets, lighting fixtures and other furnishings, plus recent and historic photographs. Now students, architects, any lover of fine buildings can watch an architectural masterpiece take shape in this profusely illustrated history of the house Wright himself labeled 'a source of world-wide architectural inspiration.'" -
A Field Guide to American Houses
Virginia McAlester and Lee McAlester
"The guide that enables you to identify, and place in their historic and architectural contexts, the houses you see in your neighborhood or in your travels across America. 17th century to the present."
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Frank Lloyd Wright: Letters to Architects
Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer
"More than any others, the letters Frank Lloyd Wright wrote to architects speak from the heart. They reveal, from the inside out, what it means to be a genius struggling to reach out and touch his fellows. They proclaim, defend, and exalt his primary passion, Organic Architecture, and in the process reveal his very self. As might be expected his is a many-sided self.
The correspondence with Louis H. Sullivan delineates the student-become-master, the master-become-admirer, the greatest American architect succeeding the greatest American architect. (A treasured find, the poignant Frank Lloyd Wright-Louis H. Sullivan correspondence, spanning the final five years of Sullivan's life, has never before been available anywhere.)
The letters to Oud, Mies, Saarinen, Raymond Hood, George Howe, Philip Johnson and the rest present a kaleidoscope of moods, witty, pliant, devastating, shifting with shifting circumstances, but at core always constant in their defense of the Organic Architecture that Frank Lloyd Wright believed in with all his heart. Equally various, but with hard-edged practical overtones, are the bread-and-butter letters to colleagues handling his mammoth one-man exhibition, 60 YEARS OF LIVING ARCHITECTURE.
The letters to critics Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Lewis Mumford speak in a different voice, their accents broader so as to address the architectural profession as a whole. (The Frank Lloyd Wright-Howard Myers correspondence is different in another sense: it is simply beautiful!)
Then at last triumph, even in the stronghold of the A.I.A., but always laced with caution, and thoughtfulness, and echoes of the struggle lasting over six long decades.
Finally, playing across the total canvas, there are intimate asides, private talks, and public addresses that add special depth and color to the vivid self-portrait already painted by the letters.
Like the buildings he shook from his sleeves in endless profusion, LETTERS TO ARCHITECTS is a virtually inexhaustible fund of riches, for the most gifted architect of our century had a mind, soul, and eloquence in perfect keeping with his creative genius."
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Frank Lloyd Wright In His Renderings 1887-1959
Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer and Yukio Futagawa
Excerpt from Book Jacket:
"The development of Modern Architecture has been strongly influenced by the accomplishment of Frank Lloyd Wright. His professional career as an architect spanned more than seventy years and produced more than 400 buildings.
With the generous cooperation of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, we are able to present to you the first complete works of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Volume 12 consists of 200 selected renderings that are often considered works of art in themselves. In order to communicate the exquisite quality of the original woks, we have paid special attention to the selection of paper and the printing process."
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Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian Houses: Designs for Moderate Cost One-Family Homes
John Sergeant
How do you build innovative, energy-conscious, low-cost houses that are specifically suited to individual sites and a family's informal life style? Such issues pose complex problems for architects practicing today, yet Frank Lloyd Wright successfully resolved them in the houses he built in the later period of his prolific career. Known as his Usonian houses, these works have a particular relevance today because of the current concern for energy conservation, ecological integrity, and personalized design.
After defining organic architecture, John Sergeant shows how the first Usonian - the Jacobs house built in 1937 - incorporates Wright's techniques. Sergeant then explores how the Usonian design was adapted to meet the special needs of over fifty clients in climates as different as those of the Pacific Northwest, the Great Lakes, and the Mississippi basin.
Then the author describes Taliesin - the experimental, creative, cooperative community where Wright and his associates worked and lived - and shows how the Usonian concept was carried out in practice there. Broadacre City, Wright's plan for the "nation urbanized," is discussed as the context for the Usonian houses, as well as for Wright's populist social program. Sergeant not only reviews the contemporary criticism of the radical proposal for city planning, but relates it to today's changing social and environmental awareness. He concludes by summarizing the implications of organic design at both the individual level of the Usonian dwelling and the social level of the Broadacre community.
This well-illustrated, serious appraisal of Wright's later period provides a timely approach to solving some of today's most urgent needs.
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Decorative Objects, Prints, Drawings, Florida Projects
Frank Lloyd Wright
Catalog of Bass Museum of Art 1984 Exhibit that "represents each decade of Frank Lloyd Wright's long career and offers examples of both his architectural and interior design." The catalog emphasizes Wright's designs for Florida.
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The Pope-Leighey House
National Trust for Historic Preservation and Terry B. Morton
Book Preface Excerpt:
"The Pope-Leighey House has been studied and enjoyed for its distinctive character. To many people it has served as a simple but striking introduction to the interaction of space, light and freedom to which Wright felt that all Americans were entitled. Long-term plans are now being formulated so that the Pope-Leighey House continue to enlighten all those who visit it."
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