FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT ON ARCHITECTURE SELECTED WRITINGS 1894-1940. Edited with an Introduction by Frederick Gutheim.

Wright, Frank Lloyd.

ISBN 10: 0810961229 / ISBN 13: 9780810961227

Published by Museum of Modern Art, 1998

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NY 1941. 8.5 x 8.5", cloth, 275 w/index, back of book bumped (not noticeable from exterior) else OK in defective dw. FIRST EDITION.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT ON ARCHITECTURE SELECTED WRITINGS 1894-1940. Edited with an Introduction by Frederick Gutheim.
• Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810961229
• ISBN 13: 9780810961227
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Profusely Illustrated
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

From the turn of the century until his death in 1959, Frank Lloyd Wright produced an almost uninterrupted stream of projects that redefined the American architectural vision. The most comprehensive summary and appraisal of Wright's achievement ever assembled, with nearly 500 illustrations, including 190 in color, this volume presents an impressive array of works: single family houses that provided images and models for generations of suburban buildings across the United States, community solutions to housing for Depression America, and an astonishing progression of landmark commercial and institutional structures. In these pages appear Wright's most spectacular commissions--among them Fallingwater, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and Tokyo's Imperial Hotel--but also a retrospective selection of other projects from all periods of his enormously productive career. Photographs of actual buildings and of models, plans, and sketches, as well as reproductions of the architect's masterful drawings, many previously unpublished, are all included.

Synopsis

A comprehensive evaluation and critique of the century's most influential architect, whose career set the standard for an American artistic architectural vision, offers nearly five hundred illustrations, many in color, that capture the brilliance of a great innovator.