Frank Lloyd Wright: Home and Studio, Oak Park documents the Oak Park complex where Wright first dismantled the conventions of American residential architecture — a building he continuously reworked as his ideas evolved, making it as much laboratory as home.
About This Book
Before the Prairie School had a name, Wright was inventing it room by room in Oak Park. This book traces the evolution of his home and studio from 1889 through successive additions and alterations, each reflecting a shift in his architectural thinking. The interiors — layered with Japanese prints, Teco ceramics, oriental rugs, classical plaster sculpture, and built-in furnishings of Wright's own design — are captured in colour photography by Jon Miller of Hedrich-Blessing. A portfolio of historic black-and-white photographs, some taken by Wright himself, grounds the contemporary images in the building's own history. For students of organic architecture and the development of modernism in America, this is primary source material made visual.
Key Features
- 56 pages of colour photography by Jon Miller of Hedrich-Blessing alongside a portfolio of historic black-and-white photographs
- Text by Elaine Harrington
- Published by Edition Axel Menges, ISBN 9783930698233
What You'll Discover
- How Wright's successive alterations to the Oak Park complex — in 1889, 1895, and 1898 — directly paralleled the development of his early architectural thinking and the emergence of the Prairie School
- The role of the studio as a collaborative workspace where Wright and his young assistants rethought plan, proportion, materials, and spatial sequence in American residential design
- Wright's approach to interior decoration as an integrated design act: Japanese prints, Teco ceramics, oriental rugs, and custom-designed furniture unified by nature-toned colour
- A portfolio of historic black-and-white photographs, including images taken by Wright himself, offering a rare firsthand visual record of the building's early life
About the Author
Elaine Harrington contributed the text for this volume on Wright's Oak Park home and studio. [Details available upon request]
Specifications
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 56
- Dimensions: 289 x 312 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783930698233
- Publisher: Edition Axel Menges
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects and historians with an interest in the origins of American modernism, Frank Lloyd Wright scholars, and collectors of monographs on canonical twentieth-century residential architecture.