Frank Lloyd Wright and San Francisco / Paul V. Turner.

Main entry:

Turner, Paul Venable, author.

Title & Author:

Frank Lloyd Wright and San Francisco / Paul V. Turner.

Publication:

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2016]
©2016

Description:

vi, 216 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Frank Lloyd Wright and the Bay Area -- The early years -- Resurgence in the 1930s -- Dynamic new forms in the 1940s -- Domestic designs of the 1950s -- Monumental last projects -- Aftermath and overview.

Summary:

"Although Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) famously disliked cities, he had a genuine affinity for San Francisco. Paul V. Turner's unprecendented book looks at the architect's complex and evolving relationship with the city, surveying the full body of Wright's work in the Bay Area-- roughly thirty projects, a third of which were built. Spanning from 1900 to 1959, they include houses, a gift shop, a civic center, a skyscraper, a church, and industrial building, a mortuary, a brigde across the San Francisco Bay, and even a dog house. The unbuilt structures are among Wright's most innovative, and the diverse reason for their failure counter long-held stereotypes about the architect and his client relationships. Wright's Bay Area projects are published together here for the first time, along with previously unpublished correspondence between Wright and his clients, as well as his Bay Area associate Aaron Green. Stories from San Francisco newspapers portray the media's changing positions on Wright -- from his early personal scandals to his later roles as eccentric provocateur and celebrated creative genius."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9780300215021 (hardback)
0300215029 (hardback)

Subject:

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.
Wright, Frank Lloyd 1867-1959
Architecture California San Francisco Bay Area History.
Architecture Californie San Francisco, Région de la baie de Histoire.
Architecture
California.
Californie.
California San Francisco Bay Area

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293161
Call No.: BIB 237855
Status: Available

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