Frank Lloyd Wright: His Life and His Architecture

By Robert C. Twombly and Goold

Book Overview

A complete biography based on a wide range of previously untapped primary sources, covering Wright's private life, architecture, and role in American society, culture, and politics. Views Wright's buildings as biographical as well as social statements, analyzing his work by type, category, and individual structure. Examines Wright's struggle to develop a new artistic statement, his dramatic personal life, and his political and economic ideas, including those on cities, energy conservation, cooperative home building, and environmental preservation. Includes over 150 illustrations (photographs, floor plans, and drawings--many never before published), extensive footnotes, and the most exhaustive bibliography of Wright's published work available.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471857971
• ISBN13: 9780471857976
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

clear, thorough, well-written

This biography is extremely clear and easy to read --it details Wright's philosophy of architecture as well as his personal life, and summarizes the achievements of each important building in his career.

Everything about the life and work of Wright

This book is very good to understand the works of Wright. The biography put always in parrallel his life with his works, so it is interesting to understand why he makes one project or another at a certain time. the books has also a good selection of photography and drawings not seen in must of the others books.