Frank Lloyd Wright: Creating American Architecture

Frank Lloyd Wright: Creating American Architecture

Early on, Frank Lloyd Wright knew he would be an architect. His overriding goal was to create a Democratic American Architecture. But first he had to create an American Architecture. Born in Bear Valley, Wisconsin, raised in nearby Richland Center, he spent time in Massachusetts before settling in central Wisconsin. His architectural career began in Chicago, ended in Arizona. He created Prairie architecture, which was American, then Usonian architecture, which was Democratic American. This book covers his work to 1910, while Frank Lloyd Wright: Designing Democratic America, covers 1911 to the end of Wrightâ€™s long life. When Mr. Wright died, he had lived the entire second half of the nationâ€™s existence. William Allin Storrer worked with the dean of American architectural historians, Henry-Russell Hitchcock, author of In the Nature of Materials (the first and still important work about Wrightâ€™s architecture) in the production of The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, A Complete Catalog. Over a dinner to celebrate completion of the research in Hitchcockâ€™s archive, Hitchcock commented that there were still houses out there that nobody knew about: â€œWright would drive me through Evanston, River Forest and Oak Park, and Hyde Parkâ€ confided he. â€œEvery so often Wright would point to a building and say, â€˜I built that, but nobodyâ€™ll ever know.â€™â€œ This book reveals several works about which â€œnobodyâ€™ll ever know,â€ works now believed to have been by Wright or by Wright in collaboration with another architect. It is the story of Wrightâ€™s achieving half of his goal, an American Architecture, in his Prairie era homes.

Country	USA
Author	William Allin Storrer Ph.D.
Binding	Paperback
EAN	9781512284195
ISBN	151228419X
Label	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Manufacturer	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
MPN	colour illustrations
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	270
PartNumber	colour illustrations
PublicationDate	2015-09-03
Publisher	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Studio	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Frank Lloyd Wright: Creating American Architecture

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