Frank Lloyd Wright: The Houses

Frank Lloyd Wright: The Houses

Alan Hess • Rizzoli

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ISBN-10: 0847827364 · ISBN-13: 978‑0847827367 · 2005 · 1st Edition

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Frank Lloyd Wright, perhaps the most famous architect of all time, and certainly the most well known American architect, has been immensely influential in shaping the course of modern architecture, both in the U.S. and throughout the world. In particular, his residential work has been the subject of continuing interest and controversy. Wright's Fallingwater (1935), the seminal masterpiece perched over a waterfall deep in the Pennsylvania highlands and built for Edgar J. Kaufmann Sr., is often considered the best-known private house in the history of the world. In fact, Wright's houses-from the Robie House (1908) in Chicago, a national landmark designed in his Prairie Style, to the textile-block Storer (1923) and Freeman (1924) houses in Los Angeles, to Taliesen West (1938) in the Arizona desert-are all touchstones of modern architecture. In Frank Lloyd Wright: The Houses, for the first time, all 291 extant Wright-designed houses are featured in exquisite color photography. Along with Alan Weintraub's stunning photos, lucid principal text by author Alan Hess, and a selection of floor plans and archival images, the book includes text and essays by some of the field's most highly esteemed Wright scholars and architecture historians, including Kenneth Frampton, Thomas S. Hines, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, Kathryn Smith, Margo Stipe, and Eric Lloyd Wright.

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