Frank Lloyd Wright S Houses

Author : Alan Hess
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 41,6 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 : Nicholas D. Hayes
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780299331801

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Frank Lloyd Wright's Forgotten House by Nicholas D. Hayes Pdf

Frank Lloyd Wright's foray into affordable housing--the American System-Built Homes--is frequently overlooked. When Nicholas and Angela Hayes became stewards of one of them, they began to unearth evidence that revealed a one-hundred-year-old fiasco fueled by competing ambitions and conflicting visions that eventually gave way to Wright's most creative period.

Author : Joseph Connors
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1984-05-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0226115429

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The Robie House of Frank Lloyd Wright by Joseph Connors Pdf

The Robie House in Chicago is one of the world's most famous houses, a masterpiece from the end of Frank Lloyd Wright's early period and a classic example of the Prairie House. This book is intended as a companion for the visitor to the house, but it also probes beneath the surface to see how the design took shape in the mind of the architect. Wright's own writings, rare working drawings from the period, and previously unpublished photographs of the house in construction help the reader look over the shoulder of the architect at work. Beautiful new photographs of the Robie House and related Wright houses have been specially taken to illustrate the author's points, and a bibliography on Wright is provided.

Author : Kim Bixler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-18
Category : Architect-designed houses
ISBN : 0965242617

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Growing Up in a Frank Lloyd Wright House by Kim Bixler Pdf

Kim Bixler's family owned Frank Lloyd Wright's 1908 Edward E. Boynton House in Rochester, New York from 1977-1994. Growing Up in a Frank Lloyd Wright House recounts the joys and pitfalls of owning a Wright-designed home. The tumultuous history of the house is recounted through interviews with former and current owners. Living with the public's curiosity, playing hide-and-seek, coping with the habitually leaky roof, and managing constant renovations make this an unforgettable story.

Author : Diane Maddex
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2003-11-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015058086292

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Wright-Sized Houses by Diane Maddex Pdf

This is the only book on the master architect that focuses on the house of moderate cost, turning the spotlight on Frank Lloyd Wright's ingenious solutions to make homes look and feel large.

Author : Donald Hoffmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0822941198

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Frank Lloyd Wright's House on Kentuck Knob by Donald Hoffmann Pdf

More than fifty photographs, drawings, and diagrams accompany a detailed descriptive text to illustrate how the peculiarities of the plan, based on the equilateral triangle, resulted in a house that generates countless vistas, indoors and out, and spatial effects of great charm and intimacy."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Diane Maddex
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2001-03-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0810982129

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50 Favorite Houses By Frank Lloyd Wright by Diane Maddex Pdf

Wright believed that the home was the center of family life, of individual freedom, a place of repose. As this book shows, his ideal home took on an amazing variety of forms, but was always built using natural materials and colors, and was always a work of art. Included here are his Prairie houses; revolutionary designs in California built of concrete blocks; the famous Fallingwater; and Taliesin West, his home in the desert.

Author : Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781616895907

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Wright Sites by Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy Pdf

A comprehensive guide to Frank Lloyd Wright-designed buildings open to the public—with travel itineraries and information on seventy-four sites. Frank Lloyd Wright’s groundbreaking designs, innovative construction techniques, and inviting interiors continue to astound and inspire generations of architects and design aficionados. Covering all the publicly accessible sites across the United States—plus four in Japan—Wright Sites describes the design ideas and history behind each building. The volume also includes suggested destination itineraries for Wright road trips, a list of archives, and a selected bibliography. This revised edition features twenty sites newly opened to the public, up to date descriptions and access information, and new color photographs of each site. The introduction is written by Jack Quinan, a founding member of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy and author of Frank Lloyd Wright's Martin House.

Author : Thomas A. Heinz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UVA:X004644785

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Frank Lloyd Wright's Houses by Thomas A. Heinz Pdf

This text celebrates the best of Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture and design. The subjects have been photographed by the author, Thomas A. Heinz, who is an expert on Wright and his work.

Author : Frank Lloyd Wright
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780486132341

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Drawings and Plans of Frank Lloyd Wright by Frank Lloyd Wright Pdf

Complete Wasmuth drawings, reproduced from a rare 1910 edition, feature Wright's early experiments in organic design. Includes 100 plates of public and private buildings from Oak Park period, plus Wright's Introduction and annotations.

Author : Carla Lind
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0684813068

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Lost Wright by Carla Lind Pdf

The author details more than one hundred of Wright's buildings that no longer exist--lost to fire, natural disaster, changes in fashion or economy, or intended to be temporary.

Author : Donald Hoffmann
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780486274300

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Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater by Donald Hoffmann Pdf

Traces the complicated development of Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater, including planning, site selection, and construction

Author : Paul Hendrickson
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 45,5 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 : Donald Hoffmann
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780486139227

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Frank Lloyd Wright's Dana House by Donald Hoffmann Pdf

Handsome pictorial essay documents creation of residential masterpiece with more than 160 interior and exterior photos, plans, elevations, sketches, and studies. Informative text recounts the house's history, including its site, plans, and construction.

Author : William Channing Gannett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Arts and crafts movement
ISBN : HARVARD:RSLEAU

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The House Beautiful by William Channing Gannett Pdf