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Featured Books
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Frank Lloyd Wright's Houses
Fallingwater Rising: Frank Lloyd Wright, E. J. Kaufmann, and America's Most Extraordinary House
Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater: The House and Its History
Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House: The Illustrated Story of an Architectural Masterpiece
Frank Lloyd Wright's
Taliesin and Taliesin West
Bartlesville, Oklahoma 1952
Price Tower for the H. C Price Company
Frank Lloyd Wright first became preoccupied with it by envisaging
a skyscraper in a large city, such as Chicago. But, after repeated
attempts to find a builder for it had failed, Wright saw his tower
better suited for a country town-away from the hustle, bustle and
congestion of an urban center. Frank Lloyd Wright believed that the
tower should stand alone in the prairie like a tree escaped from the
forest, and not be surrounded by other blocks. In this unusual,
functional and supremely elegant tower he achieved his goal.
Its design was influenced by the plans that he drew for a tower
in New York for St Mark's in the Bouwerie, where the central core
carried all the utilities and the floors are cantilevered out from
it in the same way as they are in the Johnson Wax Research Tower.
The Price Tower is nineteen floors high, and is composed of four
segments that are pin wheeled around the central core of the
building.
Three of these four segments are single-storey office spaces, and
the fourth houses eight duplex apartments. Wright himself has one
floor as living space, with two bedrooms galleried above. The office
facades are primarily horizontal, with alternate gold and green
copper bands, whereas the apartments have a vertical emphasis
because of the long slender mullions.
You can tour the Frank Lloyd Wright exhibit, Bruce Goff Apartment
and the Price Company Executive Office and Apartment. Reservations
are required for groups over 6 and tours will usually be scheduled
at times other than the regularly scheduled tours.
The Price Tower is located at 510 Dewey Avenue Bartlesville, OK
74003. If you are looking for publications on the 'Price Tower' or
the 'Prairie Buildings' click
here.