Frank Lloyd Wright: A Life (Penguin Lives) - Softcover

Huxtable, Ada Louise

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143114298 ISBN 13: 9780143114291

Publisher: Penguin USA, 2008

Synopsis

Pulitzer Prize?winning critic Ada Louise Huxtable's biography of America's greatest architect

Renowned architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable's biography Frank Lloyd Wright looks at the architect and the man, from his tumultuous personal life to his long career as a master builder. Along the way she introduces Wright's masterpieces? from the tranquil Fallingwater to Taliesin, rebuilt after tragedy and murder?not only exploring the mind of the man who drew the blueprints but also delving into the very heart of the medium, which he changed forever.

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Review:

a An ideal match: Ada Louise Huxtable, the finest architecture critic the United States has, takes on the willful visionary Wright.a
a"San Francisco Chronicle"
a A pleasure to read . . . insightful and thought provoking.a
a"The New York Times"

An ideal match: Ada Louise Huxtable, the finest architecture critic the United States has, takes on the willful visionary Wright.
"San Francisco Chronicle"
A pleasure to read . . . insightful and thought provoking.
"The New York Times"

? An ideal match: Ada Louise Huxtable, the finest architecture critic the United States has, takes on the willful visionary Wright.?
?"San Francisco Chronicle"

? A pleasure to read . . . insightful and thought provoking.?
?"The New York Times"

About the Author:

Ada Louise Huxtable is a Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic. She is the author of several books, including Inventing Reality, Pier Luigi Nervi, and, most recently, The Unreal American. A MacArthur fellow, Huxtable is the architecture critic of The Wall Street Journal and was the architecture critic for The New York Times from 1963 to 1982.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin USA
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0143114298
• ISBN 13: 9780143114291
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272