Basic Frank Lloyd Wright: Legend and Fact About America's Most Creative Architect - Softcover

Michel, Henry J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0965223728 ISBN 13: 9780965223720

Publisher: One Palm Books, 1999

Synopsis

In this very compact volume are related the significant events in the architect's life from his unsettling boyhood in a disruptive family environment in the mid-nineteenth century, through a series of personal excesses and tragedies while at the same time he blazes a new trail for American architecture. The book concentrates on his personal life as it also chronicles, in layman's language, the legendary stories of his professional triumphs.

About this title

From the Publisher

Here's a book for the new Wright fan, as well as the long-time aficinado who knows bits and pieces about his life and work, but never really had it all put together. And it is just the right book for today's busy, busy person who can't get around to tackling one of those 500-page biographies.

From the Back Cover

The Right Book For You If You: Know a bit about Frank Lloyd Wright and want to learn a good bit more - Don't have time to digest a thick biography full of technical jargon - Know about his unconventional buildings, but not about his unconventional life - Heard about his offbeat life and character, but can't offhand name two of his major structures.

Edition details

• Publisher: One Palm Books
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0965223728
• ISBN 13: 9780965223720
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 64