Wright-Sized Houses

Wright-Sized Houses
Author: Diane Maddex
Publisher:
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2003-11-25
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

This is the only book on the master architect that focuses on the house of moderate cost, turning the spotlight on Frank Lloyd Wright's ingenious solutions to make homes look and feel large.

Frank Lloyd Wright's California Houses

Frank Lloyd Wright's California Houses
Author: Carla Lind
Publisher: Pomegranate
Total Pages: 48
Release: 1996
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780764900136

Always an experimenter, in the 1920's Wright debuted an innovative building system with four striking houses in the Los Angeles area. This book features these internationally renowned compositions and a fifth that shares their exotic form.The Wright-at-a-Glance series showcases the work of one of the world's best-known architects. Comprising twelve books in all, this series offers an overview of Wright's life, buildings, and designs.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright
Author: Alan Hess
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2007
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

"The mid-twentieth century was one of the most productive and inventive periods in Frank Lloyd Wright's career, producing such masterworks as the Guggenheim Museum, Price Tower, Fallingwater, the Usonian Houses, and the Lovness House, as well as a vast array of innovative furniture and object design. With a wide variety of shapes and forms-ranging from honeycombs to spirals-this period defies simplistic definition. Simplicity, democratic designs, and organic forms characterize Mid-Century Modern, and, mentoring such mid-century talents as Richard Neutra and Rudolph Schindler among others, Wright was one of its most influential proponents. Frank Lloyd Wright: Mid-Century Modern is a comprehensive examination of an under-explored period in Wright's career, a time dating from roughly 1935 to 1958, during which this master architect was at his most daring and innovative."--Jacket

Frank Lloyd Wright's Life and Homes

Frank Lloyd Wright's Life and Homes
Author: Carla Lind
Publisher: Pomegranate
Total Pages: 68
Release: 1994
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781566409964

A summary of Wright's life and career as well as dramatic color photographs of his three homes capture the essence of this innovative man who forever changed the way we look at the spaces around us.

Hometown Architect

Hometown Architect
Author: Patrick F. Cannon
Publisher: Pomegranate
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2006
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780764937460

Oak Park and River Forest are a mecca for Wright scholars and enthusiasts. Nowhere else can one visit so many Frank Lloyd Wright buildings and experience the architect's Prairie-style philosophy so fully. Hometown Architect is a thorough chronicle of that experience. Even if you have not had the good fortune to see these houses firsthand, the textual and photographic tours comprising this book will make you feel as though you have. Hometown Architect presents twenty-seven Wright homes, and Unity Temple, documenting one of the architect's most influential periods of his career. The last chapter surveys eight lost, altered, and possibly Wright homes. More than ninety photographs of the buildings' exteriors and interiors are accompanied by descriptive captions, while introductory text to each chapter details the story behind each commission, addressing Wright's relationships with his clients, the importance of each building in Wright's oeuvre, and the characteristics that make each house unique. The endpapers of this book feature a map locating all the sites discussed. By Patrick F. Cannon, introduction by Paul Kruty, photography by James Caulfield. Published in cooperation with the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust.

Usonian Houses

Usonian Houses
Author: Doreen Ehrlich
Publisher: PRC Publishing
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2002
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Despite his grand achievements, Frank Lloyd Wright understood the needs of the typical American family. For them he designed the "Usonian Home" and proved that affordability and superb architecture could go hand in hand. With simple supplies and characteristic creativity, Wright devised elegant homes that belied their modest price tag. Take a fascinating tour of the best of these--including the inaugural Jacobs House (1936)--all built on the same principles, but subtly differing, depending on the occupants' lifestyles and local materials.

Lost Wright

Lost Wright
Author: Carla Lind
Publisher:
Total Pages: 184
Release: 1996
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780684813066

The author details more than one hundred of Wright's buildings that no longer exist--lost to fire, natural disaster, changes in fashion or economy, or intended to be temporary.

This American House

This American House
Author: Jason Loper
Publisher:
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2021
Genre: American System-Built Homes
ISBN: 9781087500614

Long before designing his signature Usonian houses, Frank Lloyd Wright envisioned an earlier series of affordable models for the middle class: The American System-Built Homes. He developed seven floorplans of varying size and layout, standardized so that materials could be precut at the factory to reduce costs. Only a few years after the project began, the United States entered World War I, and all home construction was stalled due to lumber shortages. Wright then turned his attention to other projects, and with fewer than twenty built, the American System-Built Homes were all but forgotten.In 2011, Jason Loper and Michael Schreiber purchased the only American System-Built Home constructed in Iowa, the Meier House, which set them on a course of refurbishing and researching their new residence. In This American House, Loper and Schreiber trace the history of the Meier House through its previous owners, and shed light on this underexplored period of Wright's oeuvre. With a preface by John H. Waters, the Preservation Programs Manager of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy, This American House addresses what it means to be the stewards of a piece of history.

Frank Lloyd Wright's Forgotten House

Frank Lloyd Wright's Forgotten House
Author: Nicholas D. Hayes
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2021-04-27
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0299331806

Frank Lloyd Wright's foray into affordable housing--the American System-Built Homes--is frequently overlooked. When Nicholas and Angela Hayes became stewards of one of them, they began to unearth evidence that revealed a one-hundred-year-old fiasco fueled by competing ambitions and conflicting visions that eventually gave way to Wright's most creative period.