Profiles over one hundred buildings of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, ranging from the Home and Studio built in 1889 to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum built in 1956.
When asked how he could create so many designs, he answered, "I can't get them out fast enough." Frank Lloyd Wright was a man ahead of his time who could barely keep up with his own ideas!
"May be the best book on Wright ever written, with the exception of the master's own incomparable autobiography." — New York Times Book Review.
Secrest had unprecedented access to an extensive archive of Wright's letters, photographs, drawings and books. "Secrest's achievement is to etch Wright's character in sharp relief. . . . (She) presents Wright in his every guise".
An unprecedented look at Frank Lloyd Wright's storied relationship with San Francisco and the Bay Area, highlighting local masterpieces as well as a remarkable body of unbuilt works
Originally published: New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1943.
The Frank Lloyd Wright Field Guide provides the first complete visitors' guide to all of Wright's buildings in the United States and around the world. This new, single-volume edition is...
This is the first book devoted to Frank Lloyd Wright's designs for remaking the modern city.
The complete Wasmuth drawings, 1910. Wright's early experiments in organic design: 100 plates of buildings from Oak Park period from first edition. Includes Wright's iconoclastic introduction.
... 66 Kahn Lectures, 81, 82–90, 99, 107, 118, 119, 131, 132, 147 Kaufmann, Edgar A., Jr., 131 Kaufmann, Edgar A., Sr., 47, 79, 131 Key, Ellen, 43 Kimball, Fiske, 75 Kline, Franz, 165 Koch, Kenneth, 70 Ladies'HomeJournal, The, 36, 37, ...
Junior Library Guild Selection Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People NSTA/CBC Best STEM Book In this book about Frank Lloyd Wright for kids, young readers will learn all about America's first world-famous architect.