[PDF] Architect The Life And Ideas Of Frank Lloyd Wright eBook

Author : Robert C. Twombly
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 20,74 MB
Release : 1991-01-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780471857976

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A 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.

Author : Kathleen Thorne-Thomsen
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 44,64 MB
Release : 1994-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 156976784X

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"Revised and updated edition of a longstanding classic that details the life, times, and work of America's most celebrated architect"--

Author : Robert C. Twombly
Publisher : Wiley-Interscience
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,14 MB
Release : 1991-01-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780471857976

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A 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.

Author : Patricia Geis
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,4 MB
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781616895938

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The life and work of visionary American architect Frank Lloyd Wright launches our new activity book series, Meet the Architect!, an expansion of our Meet the Artist! series. Flaps, cutouts, and pull tabs, take readers on a fascinating journey through Wright's famous works — the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Fallingwater, and Taliesin, among others — and the materials and techniques he used to create them. This hands-on introduction will inspire budding architects from ages eight to eighty.

Author : Frank Lloyd Wright
Publisher : Pomegranate
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 28,48 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Architects
ISBN : 9780764932434

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Originally published: New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1943.

Author : Ada Louise Huxtable
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 14,50 MB
Release : 2008-04-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780143114291

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Pulitzer 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.

Author : John Lloyd Wright
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 47,74 MB
Release : 2012-04-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0486140628

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Charming memoir, by his son, of Wright as genius, father, and family man. The book also includes the complete text of William C. Gannet's The House Beautiful, a work designed by Wright. 10 halftones.

Author : Frank Lloyd Wright
Publisher : Wiley-Interscience
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 15,36 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Architecture
ISBN :

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This is a unique and comprehensive collection of the significant speeches of Frank Lloyd Wright. The speeches presented, spanning nearly six decades, touch on Wright's ideas on organic architecture, the machine, improving the human condition, honor, education, democracy, city planning and his Broadacre City in particular and government. Profusely illustrated with over 300 photographs and drawings, most of which have never been published. A companion volume to the author's collection of conversations and interviews with Wright, The Master Architect.