Frank Lloyd Wright and Midway Gardens
By: Paul Kruty.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
Subjects: Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 -- Criticism and interpretation; Midway Gardens (Chicago, Ill.); Commercial buildings -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 19th century; Lost architecture -- Illinois -- Chicago; Chicago (Ill.) -- Buildings, structures, etc
Description: Built in Chicago in 1914, Frank Lloyd Wright's Midway Gardens was a concert garden that included an indoor restaurant and dance hall, a five-tiered, outdoor summer garden with band shell, a tavern, and a private club - a work of art on the grandest scale uniting all the arts in an architecture of pleasure.

In this illustrated volume, the first to focus solely on Midway Gardens, Paul Kruty traces the project's history and argues that its complex design and extensive use of decoration were the first unmistakable examples of a change in style and approach that was to characterize Wright's work for the next fifteen years.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-252) and index.