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The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright

William Allin Storrer and Henry-Russell Hitchcock

Excerpt from Book Jacket:

"This work is, first of all, the only publication that documents all of the buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright that were actually constructed. Taken simply as a chronological listing, it is definitive and complete and includes a significant number of authentic buildings not found in previous listings. But beyond this, the book also offers a short commentary on each building and a picture of each extant structure. Most of the illustrations are photographs taken by Dr. Storrer himself while inspecting the sites, although a few are drawings that serve to illustrate structures since demolished or otherwise not accessible to the photographer. Over a hundred of the buildings haver never before appeared in a publication."
Houses: Architects Design for Themselves

Walter F. Wagner and Karin Schlegel

"What kinds of houses do architects build for themselves? There are as many answers to that question as there are architects involved. In this case, there are 61 architects and 61 very different houses.

Whether your personal interest in houses is that of the professional architect or builder or that of the prospective homeowner, you'll find this volume a unique and provocative source of design ideas and innovative solutions to typical design problems.

And you'll find these ideas presented in a manner that is both informative and interesting—because each of these architects explains not only why and how he designed his home as he did, but also how this home worked out for himself and his family once they were living in it.

The editors asked each architect to describe—the problems he had in deciding upon a design—how his house differed from that he would have designed for a client—what he would do differently if he were starting over—how the house measured up to hopes, dreams, and plans—and whether he and his family still lived in the house.

Their answers revealed that in almost every case some special consideration played a dominant role in shaping the design concept adopted by the architect. It seemed logical, therefore, to group together descriptions of those homes that shared the same basic determining factor.

Site—Many architects began, of course, with a particular site, chosen, for example, because of a treasured view or location, or because it was available, with its irregularities and problems, at a lower price than neighboring parcels. This group of descriptions provides graphic proof that the design demands imposed by site can create striking and pleasing results in themselves."
Book of House Plants

Joan Lee Faust

Purchase and care of house plants.
Global Architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright - Houses in Oak Park and River Forest, Illinois 1889-1913

William Marlin and Yukio Futagawa

This edition of Global Architecture features photographs and renderings of Frank Lloyd Wright's Houses in both Oak Park and River Forest in Illinois. Numerous photographs show exterior and interior spaces from many different angles as well as drawings. Text is in both English and Japanese.
Frank Lloyd Wright: Twentieth-Century Masters

Marco Dezzi Bardeschi

This beautifully produced series of monographs examines the work of some of the greatest painters, sculptors and architects of our time. An absorbing text on the artist's work and development is in each case accompanied by 40 pages of high-quality colour plates, in addition to 30 or more black-and-white illustrations, useful biographical notes and a full bibliography.
Twentieth-Century Masters: Gropius

Alberto Busignani

Book Jacket Excerpt:

"Alberto Busignani tells the story of this remarkable man [Walter Gropius] and his achievements. the main text is backed by biographical details, a complete list of his buildings and projects and an excellent and extensive bibliography. His work is shown in 58 black-and-white and 40 colour illustrations."
The Time-Life Encyclopedia of Gardening: Foliage House Plants

James Underwood Crockett

"Color pictures of all types of house plants and color diagrams showing how to take care of them. Includes: a world of greenery at home, the advantages of tender loving care, helping your plants multiply, the fascinating family of cacti and succulents, an encyclopedia of foliage house plant/characteristics of 239 foliage house plants, first aid for ailing house plants, pests that affect house plants and much more."
A Visual History of Twentieth-Century Architecture

Dennis Sharp

Book Jacket Excerpt:

"The VISUAL HISTORY is arranged chronologically by decades. An introduction sets The scene, looking back to the engineering achievements of the nineteenth century, to the architects' technical inheritance and to the aesthetic problems that have occupied the builders and theorists of this century. Each decade section, from 1900 to 1970, is prefaced by a short evaluation of the developments within those years, and within each decade, all significant completed buildings which have had a generic influence on twentieth-century architecture are examined. The buildings are presented in clear factual terms. The present condition of each is given where known, and each building discussed is illustrated with photographs, drawings or plans.

The book provides, in addition, a chronology of buildings erected between 1900 and 1970, a selected bibliography, and a comprehensive index. This s an essential work of reference for the student, the architect, the historian, and the general reader interested in the architectural achievement or our times."
Global Architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright - Taliesin

Masami Tanigawa and Yukio Futagawa

This edition of Global Architecture features photographs and renderings of Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin East in Spring Green, Wisconsin and Taliesin West in Paradise Valley, Arizona. Numerous photographs show exterior and interior spaces from many different angles as well as drawings. Text is in both English and Japanese.
Architectural Delineation: A Photographic Approach to Presentation

Ernest Burden

"A well-known architect demonstrates a simple, flexible new method of using photography, right at your drawing board and workbench and in the field, to enable you to depict architectural projects in true perspective - more quickly, more economically, and more accurately than you ever dreamed possible."
The Architectural Record Book of Vacation House

Architectural Record

"60 Outstanding Vacation Houses selected by the editors of Architectural Record

A treasury of ideas from architect-designed houses for seaside, lakeside, mountains and woods varying in location from California to New England to Europe ranging in price from $5,000 to over $100,000 fully illustrated with interior and exterior photographs, site plans and floor plans useful information on costs.... how to choose and work with architect.... how to select a site."
Frank Lloyd Wright Public Buildings

Martin Pawley and Yukio Futagawa

"Frank Lloyd Wright's reputation rests largely on his houses designed for private clients, but as the author notes, 'Wright's lifelong adherence to the rugged individualism of the private did not....prevent him from concerning himself with the problems of society at large....'

All of wright's public buildings reveal the extent of the architect's pioneering techniques and ideas. In 1906, Wright had been among the first to make use of reinforced concrete (Unity Temple, Oak Park, Illinois), and in 1916-22 he designed the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, where the success of his deep-pile foundations and integrated concrete construction in resisting earthquake damage was later proved. More significant in a social sense were the Larkin Building, Buffalo, New York (1904) - a 'single-purposed social organism' concerned with the productive activity of a large number of collaborating employees - and the Johnson Company's administrative offices (1936-1939) at Racine, Wisconsin, of which Wright himself wrote: 'Organic architecture designed this great building to be as inspiring a place to work in as any cathedral ever was in which to worship.' At Racine too the later tower (1944-50) housing research laboratories reveals the practical application of a much earlier idea: the analogy with a tree, with a tap-root foundation, and the central trunk with cantilevered floors.

The aspect of Wright's buildings that the illustrations particularly reveal is his preoccupation with internal space and light which runs through his work - from the clerestory lighting of Unity Temple to the Gugenheim Museum (1959) in New York, with its spiral ramp around a central domed void.

Toward the end of Wright's career, social ideas of long standing, notably the utopian Broadacre City concept, were mingled with fantastic ideas for future projects, including a mile-high 528-story skyscraper, which with patriarchal authority he announced to the world. Since his death in 1959 his work, including his last - the posthumously built Marin County Civic Center, San Rafael, California - has been continued by the Taliesin Fellowship which he founded."
Global Architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright - Kaufmann House, "Fallingwater," Bear Run Pennsylvania

Paul Rudolph and Yukio Futagawa

"This edition of Global Architecture features photographs and renderings of Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater in Bear Run, PA. Numerous photographs show exterior and interior spaces from many different angles and during different seasons of the year. Text is in both English and Japanese."
The Architecture of Country Houses

A.J. Downing and J. Stewart Johnson

"Throughout the early Victorian period, American domestic architecture was dominated by the ideas and designs of Andrew Jackson Downing (1815‒52). Downing, who was America's first important landscape architect, was instrumental in establishing a well-styled, efficient, yet low-priced house that offered many features that previously only mansions could provide. His designs were widely spread both by his books and by periodical republication.

Downing's most important work was his Architecture of Country Houses (1850), which passed through nine editions by 1866 and served as the stylebook for tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands of homes throughout the Eastern United States. It contains 34 designs for model homes (country house in this context simply meaning a separate house, as opposed to a town house), with elevations, floor plans, and discussion of design, construction, and function. The English country house of the period is the ground style, upon which other styles are overlaid; designs showing Gothic, French, Italian, and Elizabethan styles allow the user considerable choice. In many ways these designs form one of the first steps toward the modern house, with avowed emphasis on function and convenience, expression of personality, Catholicism of taste, and concord with environment. Decoration, of course, was not frowned upon.

Most valuable today is the author's full, thorough discussion of many other aspects of the early Victorian house: aesthetic concerns of architecture, adjustment to locality, materials, construction, costs, floor plan, roofing, shingling, painting, chimneys, and fireplaces, interior woodwork, wallpapering, decoration, furnishing, ventilation, sanitation, central heating, and landscaping. Since most of the houses concerned have been destroyed or altered, and practically no living situations have been preserved, this book is indispensable to everyone interested in early American culture, interior decoration, restoration, or Victorian architecture. It is far and away the richest source for the period."
Twentieth-Century Masters: Kenzo Tange

Paolo Riani

"Kenzo Tange is counted as truly one of the greatest architects of the century. His highly individual work, completely in the modern idiom, has brought an exhilarating creative talent to the urban aspect of Japan. Increasingly also in other countries his inventive genius has been sought for large and important projects. Even with the enormous range of buildings which he has created, each retains a freshness of conception. Tange has avoided static formulae and his achievement goes beyond facile enthusiasm and bears witness to an attitude of continuous and dedicated research.

Right from the start of his career, as a student and then as a newly fledged architect in the forties, he won a whole succession of prizes. This early success was also marked by the selection of his design for the new Peace Centre in the reconstruction programme for Hiroshima, which brought him his initial widespread fame. For a period for now more tan twenty years. he has continued to enhance his reputation with a wide range of awards and achievements.

His giant stadium for the Olympic Games at Tokyo in 1964 made him known throughout the world and brought him, in 1965, a gold medal from RIBA (the Royal Institute of British Architects) and in 1966 a special award from the League of Architects in New York. In the same year he was given honorary membership of the American Arts Association and awarded the gold medal of the International Architectural Association for his activities as an architect and town-planner.

Today Tange is engaged in an number of ambitious projects. He is building a Sports and Arts Centre at Flushing Meadow, New York, a university campus at Taiwan, an airport on the Persian Gulf and new administrative buildings in Bologna in Italy. In Japan he is working on the completion of a plan for Kyoto and helped to design the 1970 Osaka World Fair.

The dynamic career of this outstanding Japanese architect is described in this book in a full account by Paolo Riani amplified by quotations by Tange himself and backed by biological details, a complete list of his buildings and an excellent bibliography. His work is shown in 49 black-and-white and 63 colour illustrations."
Frank Lloyd Wright: A Study in Architectural Content

Norris Kelly Smith

"In this ground breaking monograph originally published in 1966, the author, Norris K. Smith presents a radically new and comprehensive interpretation of the dean of 20th century architects. Frank Lloyd Wright is portrayed as an artist/philosopher deeply concerned with the continuing quest for perfection and harmony amidst man's seeming inadequacy and discord."
Frank Lloyd Wright's Imperial Hotel

Cary James

In 1915, the imperial household of Japan invited Frank Lloyd Wright to build the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo. And for the next seven years, the hotel was Wright's consuming passion. When its flexible, "natural" design enabled the hotel to withstand the violent earthquake of 1923, which razed nearly every other large building in Tokyo, its survival provided strong confirmation of Wright's principles or organic architecture. As Wright scholar Cary James points out in his Introduction, "For Wright the builder, few structures had more meaning."

Despite its undeniable architectural attributes, however - floating cantilever construction, masterly shaping and ordering of interior space, and innumerable felicities of design and detail - the hotel eventually fell victim to changing times. Its popularity waned, subway construction beneath the building caused structural damage, and heavy-handed remodeling marred its integrity. Finally, extreme pressures for more intensive use of the land it occupied became overwhelming. In spite of worldwide efforts to save it, the building was demolishing in 1967.

Fortunately, the splendors of the Imperial Hotel have been carefully preserved and documented in this striking pictorial volume. Authentic floor plans and 63 captioned photographs provide lasting documentation of an architectural landmark and its incomparable features and spaces: entrance and porte-cochere, main lobby, side lounges, interior gardens and terrace, main dining room, theater, guest wings, and other areas. Also shown are a myriad of imaginative and integrated decorative details that helped give the Imperial Hotel its special character: urns, mullions, grilles, carpet patterns, stone ornaments, fireplaces, lights, windows, and many more.

In addition to a wealth of photographs, floor plans, and elevations, this book contains an illuminating Introduction by Cary James analyzing the principles of unity and organic structure that governed Wright's work, and the embodiment of those principles in the Imperial Hotel. Also included are relevant quotations from Wright's works, offering additional insight into the man, his mind and methods.
The Imperial Hotel

Cary James

Book Jacket Excerpt:

"In this book an interpretation of the building is offered. Because no structure that is also art can be considered apart from its creator, the building is discussed in the light of the architectural ideals of Wright. Here is graphic reflection of a unique creation of space and form - of the natural grace in which the Imperial Hotel stood."
People of Destiny: Frank Lloyd Wright

Kenneth G. Richards

Excerpt from Summary: "Frank Lloyd Wright was one of those rare individuals who know at a very early age the profession they will take as their lifework. It is said that even before his birth his mother dreamed of having a son who would become an architect. Why she chose this field has never been explained. It is certain, however, that she encouraged her son's seemingly natural interest in architecture. Even before he started to school, young Frank developed an awareness of natural forms. He amassed a collection of stones, not from an interest in geology, but from an interest in their never-ending variety of shapes. Later, his mother bought him a set of froebel blocks that gave the boy a sense of geometric form and dimension."
Frank Lloyd Wright The Early Work

Frank Lloyd Wright

"A hard cover reprint of the 1911 'Ausgefuhrte Bauten' a portfolio of Frank Lloyd Wright's work originally published in Berlin by the firm of Ernst Wasmuth. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs and floor plans, this is the most complete representation of Wright's early art and architectural achievements."
Frank Lloyd Wright: Writings and Buildings

Frank Lloyd Wright, Edgar Kaufmann, and Ben Raeburn

Reprint of 1960 Book.

Summary Excerpt:

"FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT: WRITINGS AND BUILDINGS presents through Wright's own words and works a survey of his achievement as a major figure of twentieth-century architecture. The text is complemented by more than 150 illustrations (a rich abundance of drawings, photographs, plans, and sketches) and the first complete list of Wright's executed buildings from 1893-1959, keyed to a map of the United States."
Frank Lloyd Wright: His Life, His Work, His Words

Olgivanna Lloyd Wright

"This book makes available the long-awaited story of the life and work of the master architect by the one person who knew him intimately and worked by his side for thirty-five years.

it also contains Frank Lloyd Wright's own explanations of why and how he designed his most important buildings; and it includes many of his never-before published writings and talks on a great variety of subjects from architecture and the arts to education and life today.

We follow Frank Lloyd Wright's dramatic life, from the day of his birth as escribed to him by his mother, through his childhood and the moving event that set him upon his course to become 'the world's greatest architect;' and his escape to Chicago where, after working for his beloved master Louis Sullivan, het set forth on his own career whose influence was to change the face of the earth.

It was a seed-time in which every building he designed involved a revolution in thought, an innovation in architecture: the Larkin Building, the first fireproof, air-conditioned building, with steel furniture built in; Unity Temple, his first church; the 'Prairie Houses' which were destined to create a new era in the design of homes throughout the world; the Imperial Hotel in Japan, his first earthquake-proof building; on through the daring structures of the Johnson Wax Building and Fallingwater, the house built over a waterfall; and the crowning achievements finished after his death, the controversial Guggenheim Museum, the Beth Sholom Synagogue, the Greek Orthodox Church, the great Marin County Civic Center in California, and the Grady Gammage Auditorium in Arizona.

Through his stormy adventures in architecture, Mrs. Wright has threaded many personal stories of the architect at work and at play, forming the now famed Taliesin Fellowship, teaching his students, guiding them in their daily work. We see him in the act of designing his buildings, fighting for them through to execution, lecturing, reading, listening to music, living one of the most productive careers in man's creative history.

An indispensable feature of this work is the complete list of 'The Buildings and Projects of Frank Lloyd Wright' (including his every design - whether executed or not - throughout his great career) with biographical notes on every important event in his life. This comprehensive section, the result of years of research in Mr. Wright's personal files, is here made available for the first time.

There are also: a never-before published list of Innovations, written by Mr. Wright himself, original sketches in his own hand (including Mil-High skyscraper), and a large number of photographs, both of his family and of his revolutionary architectural achievements; and finally an illustrated section showing the new work being carried forward by the Taliesin Associated Architects according to Frank Lloyd Wright's principles of organic architecture."
Resort Hotels: Planning & Management

E. Abraben

"This remarkable book covers the complete range of resort hotel planning, design, operation, administration, and management. It provides architects, hotel owners, land developers, real estate operators, and municipal officials with invaluable information on land utilization, designing, planning, equipment selection, construction and operating costs of resorts and their related facilities.

For the owner, Resort Hotels furnishes operating statistics and management data derived from the broad experience of successful planners, architects and operators in all parts of the United States and abroad - representative of resort installations of every size and class.

Every aspect of the subject is dealt with in depth and in detail: kitchens, restaurants, staffing, pricing, menu planning, liquor service, furniture and furnishings, provisions and supplies, laundries, dry-cleaning, and other services. The book also gives complete details on the installation and management of auxiliary facilities - both indoor and outdoor - with special emphasis on tennis courts, golf courses, ski lodges, airports, and marinas.

This new book offers the most complete and authoritative source of information available today for the guidance of the owner or would-be owner in the operation of a modern resort hotel establishment successfully and profitably.

Not only is the text section replete with vital information, but there is an outstanding picture section comprising nearly 200 pages and containing nearly 300 carefully selected illustrations. These range from site plans and diagrams to striking photographs of the latest developments in resort building."
Frank Lloyd Wright: Architecture and Space

Peter Blake

"Like the companion Peli9can books on Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe, this study of a bold, flamboyant, but tragic figure is taken from Peter Blake's The Master Builders, which was 'strongly recommended … for both lay and professional consumption' by the Architects'' Journal."
The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright

Arthur Drexler

The drawings included in this book were first selected for an exhibition of original Frank Lloyd Wright drawings held at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, from March 14 to May 6, 1962. The preliminary selection of drawings was made at Taliesin, Wisconsin, by Arthur Drexler, Director, and Wilder Green, Assistant Director, of the Museum's Department of Architecture and Design. Wilder Green made the final selection for the exhibition and designed the installation; the final selection of material for the book was made by the author.