A Taliesin Legacy: The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright's Apprentices - Hardcover

Tobias S. Guggenheimer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0442018797 ISBN 13: 9780442018795

Publisher: Van Nostrand, 1995

Synopsis

In this monumental book, the author unveils hundreds of photos and original interviews tracing the careers of thirty architects who apprenticed with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin. Among those interviewed are Fay Jones, Aaron Green, John Lautner, Anthony Putnam, Paolo Soleri, and Edgar Tafel.

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In a time when publishers are eager to flood us with books about the legacy of Frank Lloyd Wright, there is still a dearth of information about the work of students who studied at Wright's Taliesin Fellowship in Wisconsin and Arizona. Guggenheimer (architecture, Pratt Inst.) has assembled an encyclopedia study of the projects planned and/or built by these students, who eagerly embraced Wright's ethic of organic design. While the author did his research and gathered his quotes from the architects in yeoman fashion, the result is flawed. Too many of the photographs of finished buildings look as if they were shot with old Instamatic cameras at dusk. Because scholars and interested lay readers need to know what Taliesin Fellowship designers have wrought, we will have to live with this shortcoming. Sadly, the greater failure here is well beyond the author's control?these disciples of Wright, hero worshippers all, offer building designs that scream with excesses of thrust and sweep and drama, as if making loud and bizarre structures rather than organic architecture will put them on the post-Wright map. Recommended for larger architecture collections.?David Bryant, New Canaan P.L., Ct.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Van Nostrand
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0442018797
• ISBN 13: 9780442018795
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256