Wrightscapes : Frank Lloyd Wrights landscape designs Introduction: forces that shaped the young architect The emergent years: 1889 1897 The Oak Park Studio years: 1897 1909 The pivotal years: 1909 1915 The California years: a search for new direction 1916 1923 The closing years of an era: 1923 1929 The depression years a time for reflection 1929 1937 The Taliesin Fellowship years: the era of Usonia: 1937 1959 Here is the first book to examine the environmental landscape designs of Frank Lloyd Wright probably the worlds best known and most influential architect. Wrightscapes analyzes 85 of his works and pays particular attention to site planning landscape design community scale and regional planning. The authors include many original diagrams rare archival material and some 200 photographs many never published before. Wrightscapes also chronicles how and way Wrights famous ecological sensabilities were established and how his design aspirations went far beyond accepted definitions of architecture. Wrightscapes is ideal for required or supplemental reading within many curriculums of architecture landscape architecture and city planning or urban design