Frank Lloyd Wright

English

ISBN: 0670033421

EAN: 9780670033423

Category: Biography & Autobiography / Artists, Architects, Photographers/Architecture / Individual Architects & Firms / General/

Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

Release Date: 11/06/2004

Age Range: 18-UP

Synopsis: From the way we build to the way we live, Frank Lloyd Wright???s influence on American architecture is visible all around us. Now, Ada Louise Huxtable, the Pulitzer Prize- winning architecture writer for The Wall Street Journal???and chief architecture critic for The New York Timesfor nearly twenty years???offers an outstanding look at the architect and the man. She explores the sources of his tumultuous and troubled life and his long career as master builder as well as his search for lasting, true love. Along the way, Huxtable introduces readers to Wright???s masterpieces: Taliesin, rebuilt after tragedy and murder; the Imperial Hotel, one of the few structures left standing after Japan???s catastrophic 1923 earthquake; and tranquil Fallingwater, to which millions have traveled to experience its quiet grace. Through the journey, Huxtable takes us not only into the mind of the man who drew the blueprints, but also into the very heart of the medium, which he changed forever. A story of great triumph and heartbreak, Frank Lloyd Wrightis, like Wright???s own creations, an expertly wrought tribute to a man whose genius lives on in the very landscape of American architecture.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Hardcover

Height: 1.0 inches

Width: 5.42 inches

Length: 7.86 inches

Weight: 12.98 oz

Pages: 272