Frank Lloyd Wright designs : the sketches, plans and drawings / Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer in association with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.

Main entry:

Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks.

Title & Author:

Frank Lloyd Wright designs : the sketches, plans and drawings / Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer in association with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.

Publication:

New York, NY : Rizzoli, 2011.

Description:

420 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The dwelling place -- Buildings for worship -- Buildings for culture and education -- Buildings for travel and entertainment -- Buildings for commerce and work -- Buildings for the city -- Integral ornament: designs for a book, a magazine, a mural, and a theater curtain.

Summary:

The first major presentation in decades of the visionary drawings of the artist-architect and master designer. Frank Lloyd Wright was an architect of vast and unprecedented vision, whose work is not only still admired by the critics and carefully studied by historians but is also widely beloved. Comfortable spaces, humanly scaled, with extraordinary attention to detail-as seen in a range of architectural forms-are at the center of Wrights enduring appeal. This vision and attention is nowhere more evident than in the drawings. It has been said that had Wright left us only drawings, and not his buildings as well, he would still be celebrated for his brilliant artistry, and this is borne out here. Even more significant, and shown here as never before, are the magical first moments of invention and inspiration-Wrights earliest sketches, some never before published-which offer unique insight into the mind of the master architect. Frank Lloyd Wright Designs is the most important and comprehensive book to be published on the drawings, designs, conceptual sketches, elevations, and plans of Wright, with particular emphasis on the development of certain important projects. It includes the best-known and beloved projects-like Fallingwater, The Coonley House, Midway Gardens, the Guggenheim, the Imperial Hotel-as well as a range of intriguing, unfamiliar, and previously unpublished drawings by Wright.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9780847835706 (hardcover)
0847835707 (hardcover)

Subject:

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 Exhibitions.
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959
Wright, Frank Lloyd 1867-1959
Wright, Frank L.
Wright, Frank Lloyd, (1867-1959)
Wright, Frank Lloyd.
Architecture United States History 20th century.
Architecture États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture and Planning.
Architecture
Architekturzeichnung
Bauzeichnung.
Skizze.
Architecture États-Unis 20e siècle.
United States

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
History
Ausstellungskatalog.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 275951
Call No.: BIB 210446
Status: Available

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