Frank Lloyd Wright and San Francisco - Hardcover

Turner, Paul V.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300215029 ISBN 13: 9780300215021

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2016

Synopsis

An unprecedented look at the architect’s storied relationship with San Francisco and the Bay Area

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) often spent time in San Francisco, which he called “the most charming city in America.” Paul V. Turner looks at the architect’s complex and evolving relationship with the city, surveying the full body of Wright’s work in the Bay Area—roughly thirty projects, a third of which were built. Spanning 1900 to 1959, they include houses, a gift shop, a civic center, a skyscraper, a church, an industrial building, a mortuary, and a bridge across the San Francisco Bay. The unbuilt structures are among Wright’s most innovative, and the diverse reasons for their failure counter long-held stereotypes about the architect.

Wright’s Bay Area projects are published together here for the first time, along with previously unpublished correspondence between Wright and his clients, as well as his Bay Area associate Aaron Green. Stories from San Francisco newspapers portray the media’s changing positions on Wright—from his early personal scandals to his later roles as eccentric provocateur and celebrated creative genius. Beautifully illustrated with the architect’s original drawings and plans, Frank Lloyd Wright and San Francisco highlights aspects of the architect’s career that have never before been explored, inspiring a new understanding of Wright, his personal and client interactions, and his work. 

About this title

About the Author

Paul V. Turner is Wattis Professor of Art, Emeritus, in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University. 

Edition details

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300215029
• ISBN 13: 9780300215021
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224