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Frank Lloyd Wright: American Master

Kathryn Smith

With 350 color photographs collected in a compact volume, this breathtaking design coffee table book offers a survey of Wright's life in architecture in a portable format.

Featuring more than 100 discrete works, from the well-known to the obscure, expertly discussed in the text of highly respected Wright scholar Kathryn Smith, Frank Lloyd Wright weaves a gorgeous tapestry that will engage the mind and delight the eye.

An extraordinarily abundant trove of architectural riches, the book includes:

- Early Work: Such as the Home and Studio in Oak Park, IL (1889)
- Textile Block Houses: Evocative scenes of Los Angeles in the mid-1920s
- Seminal Masterpieces: Including Fallingwater in the Pennsylvania wilderness (1935) and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York (1956)

A stunning overview of the work of this towering American genius, this compact architecture book encompasses the entirety of Frank Lloyd Wright's long and extraordinarily prolific career.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
  • Publish Date: Apr 21st, 2009
  • Pages: 400
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 6.60in - 9.90in - 1.60in - 3.25lb
  • EAN: 9780847832361
  • Categories: Individual Architects & Firms - GeneralHistory - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)

About the Author

Alan Weintraub is the photographer for Rizzoli's Frank Lloyd Wright: The Houses, Frank Lloyd Wright: Prairie Houses, Frank Lloyd Wright: Mid-Century Modern, Oscar Niemeyer Houses, and The Architecture of John Lautner.

Kathryn Smith is an architecture historian, preservation consultant, author, and lecturer. She is the author of Frank Lloyd Wright: Hollyhock House & Olive Hill and a contributor to Frank Lloyd Wright: The Houses and Frank Lloyd Wright: Prairie Houses.