Title & Author:

On and by Frank Lloyd Wright : a primer of architectural principles / Robert McCarter, editor.

Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Phaidon Press, 2005.

Description:

372 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 368-369) and index.
Abstract essence : drawing Wright from the obvious / Robert McCarter -- On Frank Lloyd Wright -- Academic tradition and the individual talent : similarity and difference in Wright's formation / Patrick Pinnell -- Evolution of the Prairie House / Werner Seligmann -- Chicago frame / Colin Rowe -- Architectural practice and social vision in Wright's early designs / Gwendolyn Wright -- Schooling the Prairie School : Wright's early style as a communicable system / David Van Zanten -- Form and philosophy : Froebel's kindergarten training and Wright's early work / Richard MacCormac -- Enspacement : the main sequence from 4 to 6 : analysis of Wright's steel cathedral project / Otto Antonia Graf -- The text-tile tectonic : the origin and evolution of Wright's woven architecture / Kenneth Frampton -- Warp and woof : a spatial analysis of Wright's Usonian houses / John Sergeant -- From the Prairie House to Fallingwater / Bernhard Hoesli -- A beat of the rhythmic clock of nature : Wright's waterfall buildings / Kathryn Smith -- Frank Lloyd Wright's diagonal planning revisted / Neil Levine -- Consecrated space : Wright's public buildings / Jonathan Lipman -- The integrated ideal : ordering principles in Wright's architecture / Robert McCarter -- By Frank Lloyd Wright -- In the cause of architecture / Frank Lloyd Wright -- The logic of the plan / Frank Lloyd Wright -- In the nature of materials / Frank Lloyd Wright.

Summary:

A collection of essays on and by Frank Lloyd Wright focuses on specific aspects of Wright's work, analyzing buildings and projects in order to explain the general principles of Wright's much-debated design methods. Included are previously published contributions from well-known historians and Wright scholars.

ISBN:

0714844705
9780714844701
9780714863160 (pbk.)
0714863165 (pbk.)

Subject:

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 Criticism and interpretation.
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 Critique et interprétation.
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.
Wright, Lloyd.
Architecture United States History 20th century.
Architecture États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture.
Gebouwen.
Bouwprojecten.
United States.

Form/genre:

Writings.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Added entries:

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.
McCarter, Robert, 1955-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 242237
Call No.: BIB 172037
Status: Available