Frank Lloyd Wright The Rooms

Author : Alan Hess
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 53,8 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 : Diane Maddex
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001-03-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0810982110

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50 Favorite Rooms By Frank Lloyd Wright by Diane Maddex Pdf

Profiles fifty different interiors created by architect Frank Lloyd Wright, including living rooms, dining rooms, small spaces, and large buildings.

Author : Patrick F. Cannon
Publisher : Pomegranate
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0764937464

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Hometown Architect by Patrick F. Cannon Pdf

Oak Park and River Forest are a mecca for Wright scholars and enthusiasts. Nowhere else can one visit so many Frank Lloyd Wright buildings and experience the architect's Prairie-style philosophy so fully. Hometown Architect is a thorough chronicle of that experience. Even if you have not had the good fortune to see these houses firsthand, the textual and photographic tours comprising this book will make you feel as though you have. Hometown Architect presents twenty-seven Wright homes, and Unity Temple, documenting one of the architect's most influential periods of his career. The last chapter surveys eight lost, altered, and possibly Wright homes. More than ninety photographs of the buildings' exteriors and interiors are accompanied by descriptive captions, while introductory text to each chapter details the story behind each commission, addressing Wright's relationships with his clients, the importance of each building in Wright's oeuvre, and the characteristics that make each house unique. The endpapers of this book feature a map locating all the sites discussed. By Patrick F. Cannon, introduction by Paul Kruty, photography by James Caulfield. Published in cooperation with the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust.

Author : Spencer Hart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1597642118

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Wright Rooms by Spencer Hart Pdf

This volume of interiors by visionary American architect Frank Lloyd Wright showcases aspects of his residential design genius. Wright Rooms explores these interiors from the standpoints of spatial freedom and unity, color and texture, master masonry and influences including Japanese art and the Arts and Crafts Movement.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-21
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9780847843428

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Frank Lloyd Wright: The Rooms by Anonim Pdf

INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards -- 2014 BRONZE Winner for Architecture An invitation into the evocative, human-scaled, and artful interiors designed by Wright. Frank Lloyd Wright: The Rooms presents the warm interior spaces and exceptional design work of this beloved American master. Wright was an early proponent of "total design." Unsatisfied with what was available in designing a given space or home, he invented what was needed, developing a language of architectural detail and styling that is unique and which extended to the tables, bookcases, easy chairs, sofas, and cabinets; to rugs and murals; to stonework; to stained glass "light screens," which served as windows, doors, and room partitions; and lighting. This approach was manifested distinctly in each of his residential projects. This book offers the reader an immersion into this work by means of extraordinary artful detail in intimately explored rooms and spaces. From the Oak Park Home and Studio in Illinois to the majestically appointed Darwin D. Martin House with its abundance of art glass, including Wright’s famous "Tree of Life" and "Wisteria" designs, this luxurious volume ranges over the whole of Wright’s oeuvre. It highlights a number of Wright masterpieces, including Hollyhock House, the mysterious Aztec-like home and arts complex built on a hill in Los Angeles; the Dana House, with its luminous "butterfly" transom glass; and the fabled living room at Fallingwater.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0764952021

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Frank Lloyd Wright Designs, 2011 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Diane Maddex
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 42,8 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 : Kathryn Smith
Publisher : Abbeville Publishing Group
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1998-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015049640249

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Frank Lloyd Wright by Kathryn Smith Pdf

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) is unquestionably America's most celebrated architect. In fact, his career was so long and his accomplishments so varied it can be difficult still to grasp the full range of Wright's achievement.

Author : Diane Maddex
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1998-10-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : PSU:000033957258

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Fifty Favorite Rooms by Frank Lloyd Wright by Diane Maddex Pdf

Profiles fifty different interiors created by architect Frank Lloyd Wright, including living rooms, dining rooms, small spaces, and large buildings.

Author : Frank Lloyd Wright
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 50,9 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 : 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 : Diane Maddex
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Architects
ISBN : 0500341680

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50 Favourite Rooms by Frank Lloyd Wright by Diane Maddex Pdf

Frank Lloyd Wright is a one-man phenomenon - between 1887 and 1959 he completed more than 400 commissions in the USA as well as writing numerous books and giving frequent lectures. Thousands of visitors annually flock to the fifty Wright buildings in America that are open to the public and he is an inspiration to countless architects and designers everywhere. 50 Favourite Rooms by Frank Lloyd Wright showcases his very best work in interior design. Here are the most glorious living rooms, dining rooms and kitchens, public spaces and more from the buildings that Wright designed over his prolific seven-decade career. Exemplifying the architect’s unfailing principles of unity, simplicity and respect for nature, these rooms also present a chronological picture of his stylistic development.

Author : Diane Maddex
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 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 : Paul Hendrickson
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 40,7 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 : Diane Maddex
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Interior architecture
ISBN : 1435110323

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Fifty Favorite Rooms by Frank Lloyd Wright by Diane Maddex Pdf