Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

Riley, Terence and Peter Reed (edited) ; Essays by William Cronon, Anthony Alofsin, Kenneth Frampton, Gwendolyn Wright

ISBN 10: 087070642X / ISBN 13: 9780870706424

Published by Museum of Modern Art 1994, New York, NY, 1994

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344 pp., 484 illustrations (183 in colour). Accompanying the retrospective exhibition at MOMA, this book has a wealth of illustration, including many in full colour, some newly restored original drawings and photographs of finished works. Still shrinkwrapped 087070642x 4to.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
• Publisher: Museum of Modern Art 1994, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 087070642X
• ISBN 13: 9780870706424
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Architecture

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Synopsis

From the turn of the century until his death in 1959, Frank Lloyd Wright produced an almost uninterrupted stream of projects that redefined the American architectural vision. The most comprehensive summary and appraisal of Wright's achievement ever assembled, with nearly 500 illustrations, including 190 in color, this volume presents an impressive array of works: single family houses that provided images and models for generations of suburban buildings across the United States, community solutions to housing for Depression America, and an astonishing progression of landmark commercial and institutional structures. In these pages appear Wright's most spectacular commissions--among them Fallingwater, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and Tokyo's Imperial Hotel--but also a retrospective selection of other projects from all periods of his enormously productive career. Photographs of actual buildings and of models, plans, and sketches, as well as reproductions of the architect's masterful drawings, many previously unpublished, are all included.

From Library Journal

This book is published on the occasion of the Museum of Modern Art's exhibition of the same name. Coming more than 50 years after the museum's first Wright retrospective, both book and exhibit offer a fresh, comprehensive view of the architect's work. The transfer of the exhibit to book form is only partially successful, however. The book comprises photographs-many in color-of buildings and models, plans and sketches, and newly restored drawings by Wright. These are divided into nine thematic sections, but the themes and sections are not easily deciphered. The sections are neither titled nor listed in the table of contents, making it difficult to locate each individual introduction. Moreover, there are no running titles, so one's only orientation is chronological. And while the plates are truly stunning, the text explaining them is woefully deficient, often leaving the reader puzzled. While the text seems redeemed by the first five essays, comprehensive collections will be better served by William Allin Storrer's The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion (LJ 2/1/94).
Daniel J. Lombardo, Jones Lib., Amherst, Mass.
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