A. Hess / A. Weintraub - Frank Lloyd Wright Les Maisons - 2006

Frank Lloyd Wright Les Maisons - Photographies de Alan Weintraub / Texte de Alan Hess - Essays by Kenneth Frampton, Thomas S. Hines, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, Kathryn Smith, Margo Stipe and Eric Lloyd Wright - Editions Chêne, 2006 - Hardcover publisher's full black cloth, top board and spine titled, under illustrated dust jacket, 539 pages, square format: 29 x 29 cm, boards and endpapers illustrated, frontispiece: Photo of F. L. Wright - Very rich iconography, in text and out of text, in color - Table of contents: see photos - IN AS NEW CONDITION!!! - Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), the man of 300 projects realized, is one of the most famous architects in the world. He continues to attract attention. No other American architect has inspired more books, theories, quotes. He would crown himself a genius, which, in the opinion of his peers as well as laypeople, was largely justified - A devotee of organic architecture, open plans, the erasure of the boundaries between interior and exterior, he profoundly renewed the relationship of architecture to nature - Summary: Frank Lloyd Wright in Becoming / Frank Lloyd Wright and the American House - The Prairie Style / The Suburban Urbanity of Frank Lloyd Wright, 1900-1916 - The Crossing of the Desert / Masters and Disciples: Wright, Schindler and Neutra - The Utopia in Motion / Complexity and Contradiction: The Work of Frank Lloyd Wright - The Utopia in the Work / The Usonian Automatics - Postface / The Plans / List of Houses / Reference Works / Index -