Frank Lloyd Wright: American Master

Smith, Kathryn, Weintraub, Alan

With 350 color photographs collected in a compact volume, this breathtaking design coffee table book offers a survey of Wright’s life in architecture in a portable format. Featuring more than 100 discrete works, from the well-known to the obscure, expertly discussed in the text of highly respected Wright scholar Kathryn Smith, Frank Lloyd Wright weaves a gorgeous tapestry that will engage the mind and delight the eye. An extraordinarily abundant trove of architectural riches, the book includes: • Early Work: Such as the Home and Studio in Oak Park, IL (1889) • Textile Block Houses: Evocative scenes of Los Angeles in the mid-1920s • Seminal Masterpieces: Including Fallingwater in the Pennsylvania wilderness (1935) and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York (1956) A stunning overview of the work of this towering American genius, this compact architecture book encompasses the entirety of Frank Lloyd Wright’s long and extraordinarily prolific career.

EAN

9780847832361

Publisher

Rizzoli International Publications

Published

21 April 2009

Pages

400