Category: Arc Frank Lloyd Wright

The Robie House of Frank Lloyd Wright (Chicago Architecture and Urbanism)

By: Connors, Joseph

Price: $10.00

Publisher: University Of Chicago Press : March 1984

Seller ID: 56877

ISBN-13: 9780226115429

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Robie House in Chicago is one of the world's most famous houses, a masterpiece from the end of Frank Lloyd Wright's early period and a classic example of the Prairie House. This book is intended as a companion for the visitor to the house, but it also probes beneath the surface to see how the design took shape in the mind of the architect. Wright's own writings, rare working drawings from the period, and previously unpublished photographs of the house in construction help the reader look over the shoulder of the architect at work. Beautiful new photographs of the Robie House and related Wr...
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Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House

By: Hoffmann, Donald

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Dover Publications : September 1992

Seller ID: 50002

ISBN-13: 9780486271330

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

At the behest of oil heiress Aline Barnsdall, the twentieth century's greatest architect created one of his most imaginative and controversial residential designs. Built in Hollywood in 1920-21, Hollyhock House attests to the genius of Frank Lloyd Wright and was eventually designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. This splendid home and its construction are documented here in more than 120 illustrations -- photographs, floor plans, elevations, sketches, etc. -- accompanied by the author's detailed, perceptive text.Donald Hoffmann, noted Wright scholar and architectural critic, draws on a wea...
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Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House: The Illustrated Story of an Architectural Masterpiece (Dover Architecture)

By: Hoffmann, Donald

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Dover Publications : July 1984

Seller ID: 50000

ISBN-13: 9780486245829

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Frank Lloyd Wright firmly believed that "life could be formed anew if new form could be brought to its setting, architecture." His revolt against customary architectural design was shared by rugged individualist Fred C. Robie, who chose Wright to build his dream house in 1908 -- a structure that was eventually named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. In this painstakingly researched and illuminating account of the design and construction of the Robie home, a noted architectural authority presents an in-depth study remarkable for clarity and thoroughness.At age 28, Robie had become a highly succe...
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Frank Lloyd Wright to 1910: The First Golden Age

By: Manson, Grant Carpenter

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Wiley : May 1979

Seller ID: 113818

ISBN-13: 9780471289401

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Down to Earth: An Insider's View of Frank Lloyd Wright's Tomek House

By: Moran, Maya

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press : October 1995

Seller ID: 49963

ISBN-13: 9780809315604

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

In 1974, Maya Moran and her husband purchased a dilapidated Frank Lloyd Wright house in Riverside, Illinois. She has since spent the intervening years rescuing and restoring that house, acting as contractor, maintenance woman, decorator, furniture designer, gardener, curator, and tour guide. In "Down to Earth, "Moran tells how she resurrected the 1904 Tomek House, transforming it into both a home and a showplace, and describes in vivid detail its impact on her life.Historian Robert Twombly notes in his foreword, "This is the first book about a Prairie house by someone who lives in one, the fir...
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The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright at Florida Southern College (FL) (Images of America)

By: Randall M. MacDonald, Nora E. Galbraith, James G. Rogers Jr.

Price: $11.00

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing : October 2007

Seller ID: 46468

ISBN-13: 9780738552798

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

As small Florida Southern College embarked upon an ambitious building program in the 1930s, the serendipitous arrival of Frank Lloyd Wright transformed the future of the school. Pres. Ludd Myrl Spivey was a leader with limitless imagination, and he realized the virtue in bringing an architect of Wright s renown to Lakeland. Wright s first visit to the lakeside campus was in 1938. He envisioned a grand 18-unit Child of the Sun campus, where buildings would grow from the Florida sand into the light. The buildings are especially suited to the landscape and are connected thematically by a series o...
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