Bibliograph

Frank Lloyd Wright designs, the sketches, plans and drawings, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer in association with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation

Type

Label

Frank Lloyd Wright designs, the sketches, plans and drawings, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer in association with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Frank Lloyd Wright designs

Nature of contents

abstracts summariesbibliography

Oclc number

697261598

Responsibility statement

Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer in association with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation

Sub title

the sketches, plans and drawings

Summary

The first major presentation in decades of the visionary drawings of the artist-architect and master designer. Frank Lloyd Wright was an architect of vast and unprecedented vision, whose work is not only still admired by the critics and carefully studied by historians but is also widely beloved. Comfortable spaces, humanly scaled, with extraordinary attention to detail-as seen in a range of architectural forms-are at the center of Wrights enduring appeal. This vision and attention is nowhere more evident than in the drawings. It has been said that had Wright left us only drawings, and not his buildings as well, he would still be celebrated for his brilliant artistry, and this is borne out here. Even more significant, and shown here as never before, are the magical first moments of invention and inspiration-Wrights earliest sketches, some never before published-which offer unique insight into the mind of the master architect. Frank Lloyd Wright Designs is the most important and comprehensive book to be published on the drawings, designs, conceptual sketches, elevations, and plans of Wright, with particular emphasis on the development of certain important projects. It includes the best-known and beloved projects-like Fallingwater, The Coonley House, Midway Gardens, the Guggenheim, the Imperial Hotel-as well as a range of intriguing, unfamiliar, and previously unpublished drawings by Wright

Table Of Contents

The dwelling place -- Buildings for worship -- Buildings for culture and education -- Buildings for travel and entertainment -- Buildings for commerce and work -- Buildings for the city -- Integral ornament: designs for a book, a magazine, a mural, and a theater curtain

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