Frank Lloyd Wright: America's Master Architect [Hardcover]

This diminutive survey features all aspects of Wright's art, from lowslung Prairie houses to the dramatic, seminal Fallingwater, to larger projects such as his two homes, Taliesin and Taliesin West, culminating in that icon of modernism, New York's Guggenheim Museum. This satisfying volume is complete with drawings and rarely seen works from Wright's own Asian art collection.

Kathryn Smithis the author ofFrank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin and Taliesin WestandFrank Lloyd Wright, Hollyhock House, and Olive Hill: Buildings and Projects for Aline Barnsdall, and is a former professor of architectural history at the Southern California Institute of Architecture.

Based on sound scholarship . . . set[s] forth Wright's ideas about buildings, people, nature and their interaction. . . . Warm, radiant pictures of his famous interiors will especially appeal to decorators. . . . All the pictures are of the highest quality. —Roanoke Times, 10/18/98

7 | INTRODUCTION: AMERICA’S MASTER ARCHITECT
21 | FORMATIVE YEARS (1887-1899)
45 | PRAIRIE PERIOD (1900-1910)
99 | JAPAN AND CALIFORNIA (1911-1924)
139 | REGENERATION AND RENEWAL (1925-1936)
167 | USONIAN PERIOD (1937-1947)
219 | LATE WORKS (1948-1959)
257 | WRIGHT’S ART COLLECTION
274 | CHRONOLOGY
277 | SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE READING
281 | INDEX

INTRODUCTION: AMERICA’S MASTER ARCHITECT

While there is little dispute that Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) is America’s greatest architect, there is a general lack of agreement as to the source and the extent of his achievement. His prodigious legacy embraces decorative art, graphic art, houses, public buildings, commercial buildings, and town planning; indeed, everything needed for a total living environment. Wright’s philosophy of organic architecture sought unity in every detail, from furniture to freeways. Over his seventy-year career, l£.