Details Of Frank Lloyd Wright

Author : Judith Dunham
Publisher : Chronicle Books (CA)
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0811800822

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Details of Frank Lloyd Wright by Judith Dunham Pdf

Renowned for the innovatively styled facades of the buildings he designed, master architect Frank Lloyd Wright was also famous for creating many of their interior details. The first book to feature these elements in an expansive, photographic format, this elegant survey offers a comprehensive look at each of the 24 California homes and public buildings designed by Wright over a 60-year period--including the celebrated Barnsdall and Sturges residences and the Marin County Civic center--down to individual decorative details, such as furniture, lighting, and draperies. Complete with an introduction by Wright's grandson, Eric Lloyd Wright; 175 full-color photographs; and a thoughtful, concise text, this outstanding volume will make an important addition to the architecture and design bookshelf.

Author : Alan Hess
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015073910799

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Frank Lloyd Wright by Alan Hess Pdf

"The mid-twentieth century was one of the most productive and inventive periods in Frank Lloyd Wright's career, producing such masterworks as the Guggenheim Museum, Price Tower, Fallingwater, the Usonian Houses, and the Lovness House, as well as a vast array of innovative furniture and object design. With a wide variety of shapes and forms-ranging from honeycombs to spirals-this period defies simplistic definition. Simplicity, democratic designs, and organic forms characterize Mid-Century Modern, and, mentoring such mid-century talents as Richard Neutra and Rudolph Schindler among others, Wright was one of its most influential proponents. Frank Lloyd Wright: Mid-Century Modern is a comprehensive examination of an under-explored period in Wright's career, a time dating from roughly 1935 to 1958, during which this master architect was at his most daring and innovative."--Jacket

Author : Ellen Labrecque,Who HQ
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-29
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780399539725

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Who Was Frank Lloyd Wright? by Ellen Labrecque,Who HQ Pdf

Born in Wisconsin in 1867, Frank Lloyd Wright became obsessed with a set of building blocks his mother had given to him on his ninth birthday. He grew up to become the father of organic architecture and the greatest American architect of all time, having designed more than 1,100 buildings during his lifetime. These included private homes – such as the stunning Fallingwater, churches, temples, a hotel, and the world-famous Guggenheim Museum in New York City. When asked how he could create so many designs, he answered, “I can’t get them out fast enough.” Frank Lloyd Wright was a man ahead of his time who could barely keep up with his own ideas!

Author : Ian Volner
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1780678568

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This is Frank Lloyd Wright by Ian Volner Pdf

Frank Lloyd Wright wasn't just an architect. He was a prophet, a poseur; a beloved teacher, a failed businessman. During his long, eventful life he experienced both incredible misfortune and great success. This Is Frank Lloyd Wright brings his projects and persona into vivid focus. Wit and visual punch have been the hallmarks of the This Is series to date; the first architectural title in the series will give readers an up-close look at Wright's progress from difficult childhood, to struggling apprenticeship, to early success, through mid-life setbacks and on to late-life comeback. Beautiful specially commissioned illustrations documenting the important events in his life sit alongside photographs of Wright's most iconic buildings (including Fallingwater and New York's Guggenheim Museum).

Author : Frank Lloyd Wright
Publisher : Pomegranate
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Architects
ISBN : 0764932438

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Frank Lloyd Wright by Frank Lloyd Wright Pdf

Originally published: New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1943.

Author : Frank Lloyd Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Architecture
ISBN : OCLC:3493828

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Frank Lloyd Wright on Architecture by Frank Lloyd Wright Pdf

Author : Patricia Geis
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1616895934

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Frank Lloyd Wright by Patricia Geis Pdf

The life and work of visionary American architect Frank Lloyd Wright launches our new activity book series, Meet the Architect!, an expansion of our Meet the Artist! series. Flaps, cutouts, and pull tabs, take readers on a fascinating journey through Wright's famous works — the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Fallingwater, and Taliesin, among others — and the materials and techniques he used to create them. This hands-on introduction will inspire budding architects from ages eight to eighty.

Author : Jane King Hession,Debra Pickrel
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1423601017

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Frank Lloyd Wright in New York by Jane King Hession,Debra Pickrel Pdf

'Frank Lloyd wright in New York: The Plaza Years, 1954-1959', examines the momentous five-year period when one of the world's greatest architects and one of the world's greatest cities coexisted. Authors Jane Hession and Debra Prickel bring each of these unequalled characters to life, exploring the fascinating contradiction between Wright's often-voiced disdain of New York and his pride and pleasure of living in one of the city's greatest landmarks: the Plaza Hotel. From his suite, or 'Taliesin the Third', as it became known, Wright supervised construction of the Guggenheim, sparred with the New York press, and received many famous vistitors such as Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller. home...;Michael Carroll, a renowned astronomical and paleo artist for more than twenty years, has done work for NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. His art has appeared in many magazines, including 'Time', 'National Geographic', 'Sky & Telescope', and ' Asimov's Science Fiction'. One of his paintings flew aboard MIR; another is resting at the bottom of the Atlantic, aboard Russia's ill-fated Mars 96 spacecraft. nd development without constraining

Author : Robert C. Twombly
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1991-01-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0471857971

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Frank Lloyd Wright by Robert C. Twombly Pdf

A complete biography based on a wide range of previously untapped primary sources, covering Wright's private life, architecture, and role in American society, culture, and politics. Views Wright's buildings as biographical as well as social statements, analyzing his work by type, category, and individual structure. Examines Wright's struggle to develop a new artistic statement, his dramatic personal life, and his political and economic ideas, including those on cities, energy conservation, cooperative home building, and environmental preservation. Includes over 150 illustrations (photographs, floor plans, and drawings--many never before published), extensive footnotes, and the most exhaustive bibliography of Wright's published work available.

Author : Frank Lloyd Wright
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0486243818

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"Ausgeführte Bauten" of 1911 by Frank Lloyd Wright Pdf

207 rare photos of Oak Park period, first great buildings: Unity Temple, Dana house, Larkin factory, more. Complete photos of Wasmuth edition. New Introduction.

Author : Paul Hendrickson
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780385353656

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Plagued by Fire by Paul Hendrickson Pdf

From the award-winning and nationally best-selling author of Hemingway's Boat and Sons of Mississippi--an illuminating, pathbreaking biography that will change the way we understand the life, mind, and work of the premier American architect. Frank Lloyd Wright has long been known as a rank egotist who held in contempt almost everything aside from his own genius. Harder to detect, but no less real, is a Wright who fully understood, and suffered from, the choices he made. This is the Wright whom Paul Hendrickson reveals in this masterful biography: the Wright who was haunted by his father, about whom he told the greatest lie of his life. And this, we see, is the Wright of many other neglected aspects of his story: his close, and perhaps romantic, relationship with friend and early mentor Cecil Corwin; the eerie, unmistakable role of fires in his life; the connection between the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 and the murder of his mistress, her two children, and four others at his beloved Wisconsin home by a black servant gone mad. In showing us Wright's facades along with their cracks, Hendrickson helps us form a fresh, deep, and more human understanding of the man. With prodigious research, unique vision, and his ability to make sense of a life in ways at once unexpected, poetic, and undeniably brilliant, he has given us the defining book on Wright.

Author : Peter Wille,Frank Lloyd Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Architecture
ISBN : MINN:31951000093955J

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Frank Lloyd Wright by Peter Wille,Frank Lloyd Wright Pdf

Author : Penny Fowler,Frank Lloyd Wright
Publisher : Pomegranate
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0764920170

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Frank Lloyd Wright by Penny Fowler,Frank Lloyd Wright Pdf

Book Description: Frank Lloyd Wright's mammoth contribution to architecture is universally acknowledged, but his graphic work has been largely overlooked in the existing literature about this seminal architect. His designs for typography, books, posters, murals, and magazines have remained relatively obscure, even though they are key components of his oeuvre. Penny Fowler has thoroughly investigated the artist's innovative graphic work and placed it within the context of various aesthetic movements, from Arts and Crafts to Bauhaus and De Stijl. Wright's publications - including The House Beautiful and An Autobiography - his delineations for the Wasmuth Portfolio, and his mural designs for Midway Gardens and the Imperial Hotel are explored, and one chapter is devoted to the festive covers Wright created for Liberty magazine. (Wright's designs were considered far too radical from the current trends, so Liberty turned them down.) Now this important part of the artist's work has been succinctly reviewed and amply illustrated. The ten chapters - carefully annotated with endnotes - explore Wright's foray into the world of graphic design, including book design; his influence by international sources; and his visits to Japan and Europe. Exhibitions and publications are included in the last chapter. Frank Lloyd Wright: Graphic Artist suggests that the man's genius simply knew no bounds.

Author : Frank Lloyd Wright,Martin Pawley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UVA:X000302664

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Frank Lloyd Wright: Public buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright,Martin Pawley Pdf

Author : Alexander O. Boulton
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015032762612

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Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect by Alexander O. Boulton Pdf

Traces the life and work of the twentieth-century American architect who called his innovative ideas "organic architecture".