The Life and Works of Frank Lloyd Wright
Author: Maria Costantino
Publisher: Seal Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780762403783
DOWNLOAD EBOOKText and over 200 illustrations explore the work and legacy of Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Frank Lloyd Wright
Author: Ada Louise Huxtable
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2008-04-29
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780143114291
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPulitzer 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.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Author: Frank Lloyd Wright
Publisher: Pomegranate
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 604
ISBN-13: 9780764932434
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published: New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1943.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Author: Robert C. Twombly
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 1991-01-16
Total Pages: 462
ISBN-13: 9780471857976
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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.
Famous Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright
Author: Bruce LaFontaine
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 1996-01-01
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 9780486293622
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor coloring book enthusiasts and architecture students — 44 finely detailed renderings of Wright home and studio, Unity Temple, Guggenheim Museum, Robie House, Imperial Hotel, more.
The Life & Works of Frank Lloyd Wright
Author: Thomas A. Heinz
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780760734995
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMostly colored photographs with captions examine construction techniques and the detailing of some of the well-known architect's home designs.
Frank Lloyd Wright in New York
Author: Jane King Hession
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9781423601012
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'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
Frank Lloyd Wright--the Lost Years, 1910-1922
Author: Anthony Alofsin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780226013664
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew definition to the little-known work Wright produced during this period, which he describes as Wright's primitivist phase. He traces this influence in his art through Wright's explorations of primitivist sources, innovations in sculpture, and an intensification of the architect's use of ornament. Less tangible, but as important, was Wright's view of himself, his art, and society, and Alofsin uncovers the European impact on the architect's image of himself as a.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Author: Robert C. Twombly
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Published: 1991-01-16
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780471857976
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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.
The Shape of the World
Author: K.L. Going
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2017-09-05
Total Pages: 38
ISBN-13: 1442478284
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA little boy who loves to find shapes in nature grows up to be one of America’s greatest architects in this inspiring biography of Frank Lloyd Wright. When Frank Lloyd Wright was a baby, his mother dreamed that he would become a great architect. She gave him blocks to play with and he learned that shapes are made up of many other shapes. As he grew up, he loved finding shapes in nature. Wright went on to study architecture and create buildings that were one with the natural world around them. He became known as one of the greatest American architects of all time.
