Frank Lloyd Wright

Name: Frank Lloyd Wright
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ISBN: 9780670061389

ISBN-10: 0670061387

ISBN-13: 9780670061389

Edition: 2007

Authors: Jan Adkins

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Frank Lloyd Wright was the most influential architect of the twentieth centuryand a rogue genius whose life was a wild ride. Wright routinely ignored unpaid bills, clients wishes, budget constraints. Only his creative vision mattered to him. That vision transformed the way we live, sweeping aside the Victorian home and creating a uniquely American architecture exemplified by his Prairie Style houses. Wright built hotels, churches, and offices, too, incorporating endless innovations in techniques and materials. Ideas poured out of him throughout his long career; he called it shaking the design out of my sleeve. Jan Adkinss fascinating biography of this compelling, infuriating, largerthan-…

Book details

List price: $16.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/8/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Foreword


Introduction



Darkness and Light



Foundations



The White City



Bootlegging



A Prairie Wind



Instinct and Wind



Soap and God



A Failure of Structural Integrity



Losing Eden



The Vamp



Ring of Fire



Hollywood



The Mystic



The Great Depression



Shaking It Out of His Sleeve



Desert Lord



Dangerous Dream



Usonia



Streamlining



Time Traveling



An Eclipse of the Sun



A Mystic Spiral



Gliding Home


Source Notes


Bibliography


Index