The essential Frank Lloyd Wright
Subtitle: critical writings on architecture
By: Frank Lloyd Wright ; edited by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer.
Contributors: Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks.; Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 453
ISBN-13: 9780691133188
Subjects: Architecture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. The art and craft of the machine; title: Ausgefuhrte Bauten und Entwurfe von Frank Lloyd Wright; title: The Japanese print: an interpretation; title: Louis Henry Sullivan: his work; title: In the cause of architecture: The third dimension; The architect and the machine; Standardization, the soul of the machine; Steel; Fabrication and imagination; The new world; The logic of the plan; What "styles" mean to the architect; The meaning of materials: stone, wood, the kiln, glass, concrete; Sheet metal and modern instance; Terms; title: Pt. 2. Modern architecture, being the Kahn lectures (Princeton); title: Two lectures on architecture (Art Institute of Chicago); title: The disappearing city; title: Architecture and modern life: some aspects of the past and present of architecture; title: "The architectural forum"; title: Pt. 3. The natural house; title: A testament.