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50 Favourite Houses by Frank Lloyd Wright
Diane Maddex
£14.95
An attractive gift book for devotees of the famous architect
Overview
Houses were Frank Lloyd Wright’s favourite building type from the beginning to the end of his seventy-year career as an architect. To him the house was the centre of family life, symbolized by a warming hearth, and above all a place of repose. As 50 Favourite Houses by Frank Lloyd Wright shows, his ideal home took on an amazing variety of forms.
Here, from the architect’s first period, is his own home and studio in Oak Park, Illinois, an architectural laboratory for him over two decades. His 1920s California works, built of textured concrete blocks, were revolutionary, his 1930s houses, Fallingwater and Taliesin West, internationally renowned. From then until his death in 1959, Wright took on the designed simplified residences, such as the honeycomb-shaped Hanna House, that helped change the look of the modern home.
Each of the examples shown exemplifies Wright’s never-changing principles that a house should be built with nature, achieve harmony through unity and be a work of art — not just a house.
Product Information
Book Details
Format: Hardback
Size: 27.8 x 25.8 cm
Extent: 128 pp
Illustrations: 61
Publication date: 27 March 2000
ISBN: 9780500019924
Contents List
Introduction • Early Houses • Prairie Houses • 1920s and 1930s Houses • Usonian Houses • Selected Bibliography
About the Author
Diane Maddex is an authority on Frank Lloyd Wright and has written many books on this perennially popular architect.
