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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
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Frank Lloyd Wright's House on Kentuck Frank Lloyd Wright's House on Kentuck Knob is splendidly written; simple, alive and captivating. Donald Hoffmann draws the reader right into the adventure of how Mr. and Mrs. Hagan acquired the site and got Wright, by then a quirky octogenarian, to design the building. Clearly the book, with all its illustrations, will be a steady seller for visitors who combine visits to Falling Water and Kentuck Knob. Donald Hoffmann served as art and architecture critic for the Kansas City Star from 1965 to 1990, was assistant editor of The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians from 1970 to 1972, and is the author of seven books on the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, including Frank Lloyd Wright's Falling Water.

Fallingwater Rising : Frank Lloyd Wright, E. J. Kaufmann, and America's Most Extraordinary House Fallingwater Rising is a biography not of a person but of the most famous house of the twentieth century. Scholars and the public have long extolled the house that Frank Lloyd Wright perched over a Pennsylvania waterfall in 1937, but the full story has never been told. When he got the commission to design the house, Wright was nearing seventy, his youth and his early fame long gone. It was the Depression, and Wright had no work in sight. Into his orbit stepped Edgar J. Kaufmann, a Pittsburgh department-store mogul–“the smartest retailer in America”–and a philanthropist with the burning ambition to build a world-famous work of architecture. "Highly Recommended".

cover The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright: A Complete Catalog
Description: This book is just what it says it is, A complete catalog of the works of Frank Lloyd Wright built during his life time. The text for each structure, in most cases was taken from Mr. Storrer's book The FLW Companion except where new data has been added since the original publication. Each site is illustrated with a photo. Even lost or demolished works, and most are in color.

Usonian Houses: Frank Lloyd Wright at a Glance
Description: Despite his roster of famously elite achievements-museums, public buildings, grand homes of wealthy clients-Frank Lloyd Wright was aware of the needs of the typical American family, particularly during the Great Depression. For them he designed the "Usonian Home" and proved that affordability and superb architecture could go hand in hand. With simple supplies and characteristic creativity, Wright devised a home that belied its modest price tag and sacrificed nothing in the way of elegance.

Frank Lloyd Wright's Houses
Description: This beautifully illustrated book takes a look at many unusual private homes designed by Wright, from the cantilevered "Fallingwater" in Pennsylvania to the "Desert-rose" concrete-block Lykes House in Phoenix, Arizona. Includes many popular examples of Wright's most famous houses.

Frank Lloyd Wright in Pop-Up
Description: Using the latest in paper engineering, this book brings to life six of Frank Lloyd Wright's most famous buildings: The Robie House in Chicago, the Charles Ennis House, Fallingwater, the Johnson's Wax administrative building and research tower, the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art.

cover Wright for Wright
Description: Wright for Wright is the first book to focus exclusively on the twenty houses and other structures Frank Lloyd Wright built for himself and his family. Free from the constraints and, in Wright's case, conflict of the client-architect relationship, these houses present Wright at his unfettered best: building and constantly renovating in the materials and locations that mattered to him most.

cover A Living Architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright and Taliesin Architects
Description: Author John Rattenbury is the head of Taliesin Architects; he began studying with Wright in 1950, and he has been with Taliesin ever since. A Living Architecture offers a fascinating overview of Taliesin Architects' work of the past forty years, a history of the fellowship's development, and a succinct summary of Wright's design philosophy. With three hundred full-color photographs and drawings, it is also a spectacular visual treat, documenting some of the world's most exciting buildings of the late twentieth century.

cover Frank Lloyd Wright: A Visual Encyclopedia
Description: A comprehensive guide to the life and times of the man widely considered to be one of the most innovative and influential figures in modern architecture provides an A to Z chronicle of Wright's
work, family, friends, and the major events that shaped his career. Over 1,000 stunning color photographs include interior and exterior shots of his most acclaimed architectural masterpieces.

cover Frank Lloyd Wright's House Beautiful
Description: This book features the special relationship Wright had with House Beautiful magazine, a relationship that spanned six decades. In 1897, the year the magazine began, Wright developed his own concept of "The House Beautiful," in a limited edition masterpiece that detailed his theories of the ideal home. More than a century later, this book presents his concepts, alongside stunning photographs depicting the evolution of Wright's "organic architecture" style, including the Prairie style of the early 1900s.

The Vision of Frank Lloyd Wright
Description: Virtually every structure that Wright built is represented in this extensive survey of his life's work. His genius at architectural design enable him to work out extremely complex buildings in his head and translate them on to paper in a matter of hours, as the famous story of his design presentation of Falling Water illustrates. His work continues to draw great admiration and interest to this day.

cover Frank Lloyd Wright
Description:Gr 6-9--Rubin's biography of America's most famous architect offers readers simultaneously more and less than similar books. More details are provided on Wright's most well-known buildings and more of his lesser-known projects are mentioned. However, the writing is often fragmented and rambling, confusing even the most attentive readers. Direct quotations are attributed to speakers, but no sources are cited. Unsubstantiated statements are made about the architect's motivations, such as his interest in residential architecture.

50 Favorite Rooms by Frank Lloyd Wright Description; Any admirer of the creative talent of Frank Lloyd Wright should not be without this excellent book, which records 50 of his domestic interiors. Diane Maddex, who has written several books on Wright, has assembled a photographic collection of his living and dining rooms as well as playrooms, libraries, and a few public spaces, including Wisconsin's Johnson Wax building and the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Wright's signature style--a combination of arts and crafts and the "prairie school"--was achieved by designing human-scale spaces with beautifully crafted materials.

The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright
Description: In this compelling and thought-provoking book, the distinguished architectural historian Neil Levine redefines our understanding of Frank Lloyd Wright. Making use of the architect's drawings, notes, writings, and professional correspondence, the author weaves together historical and biographical material, correlating Wright's architecture with the events in his life. 416 illustrations, 24 in color.

Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie
Description: Taking his cue from the vast Midwestern grasslands surrounding the Chicago area in the early 1900s, Wright produced his celebrated and distinctive Prairie Houses, noted for their unbroken roof planes, sheltering eaves, and dramatic, sweeping lines. This book showcases a stunning selection of these homes, and offers illuminating commentaries about the work. 50 illustrations.

A Frank Lloyd Wright Companion
Description: Wright expert Storrer has compiled the definitive Wright reference book. His splendid descriptive volume covers more than 450 buildings designed by master architect Wright between 1886 and 1959. Storrer documents each structure with plans, drawings, photographs, and commentary. Each presentation is both complete and concise, following each stage of Wright's aesthetic development, each leap of his imagination, and each instance of technical innovation.

cover Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin and Taliesin West
Description: Taliesin and Taliesin West are world renowned not only as two of the most important landmarks of 20th-century architecture, but also as home to their creator, Frank Lloyd Wright. This lavishly illustrated volume provides an introduction to the architecture, interiors, art collection, gardens, decorative arts, furniture, and graphic design of the two studio-residences. 137 illustrations, 100 in color.

cover Lost Wright : Frank Lloyd Wright's Vanished Masterpieces
Description: The majestic Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, the stunning Midway Gardens in Chicago, and the innovative Larkin Administration Building in Buffalo, New York, are among the beautiful Frank Lloyd Wright masterpieces lost to us forever. With color photos, architectural illustrations, and black-and-white period photographs, Carla Lind gives these glorious works the attention they deserve. 150 photos.