Frank Lloyd Wright : the houses

Hess, Alan 1952- (Author). Wright, Frank Lloyd 1867-1959 (Added Author). Weintraub, Alan. (Added Author). Frampton, Kenneth. (Added Author).

Summary: "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 photos, 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."--BOOK JACKET.

Record details

ISBN: 0847827364
ISBN: 9780847827367
Physical Description: print
541 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Publisher: New York : Rizzoli ; London : Hi Marketing [distributor], 2005.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 537) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Becoming Frank Lloyd Wright -- Frank Lloyd Wright and the American home / Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer -- The Prairie style -- Frank Lloyd Wright's suburbanized civility, 1900-1916 / Kenneth Frampton -- Professional wilderness -- Disciples and masters : Schindler, Neutra, Wright / Thomas S. Hines -- Utopia promised -- Complexity and contradiction in Wright's architecture / Kathryn Smith -- Utopia under construction -- Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian automatics / Eric Lloyd Wright.