Frank Lloyd Wright by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer is the authoritative single-volume survey of America's most consequential architect, drawing on unrestricted access to the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation's archives at Taliesin West to cover the full span of his paradigm-shifting career.
About This Book
From the horizontal sweep of the early prairie houses to the gravity-defying cantilevers of Fallingwater, and from the Usonian concept homes to the spiralling rotunda of the Guggenheim Museum, Wright's architecture resists easy categorisation. What Pfeiffer's compilation achieves is a coherent through-line: Wright as a designer who understood the relationship between built form and natural environment before that conversation had a name. Both realised and unrealised projects are included, among them the utopian urban vision of "The Living City," making this one of the few volumes that treats Wright's speculative thinking as seriously as his built work. Essential for students of American modernism and practitioners interested in the origins of organic architecture.
Key Features
- 512 pages of archival drawings, project documentation, and built and unbuilt works spanning Wright's entire career
- Author: Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer
- Notable projects include Fallingwater, the Guggenheim Museum New York, Usonian homes, Tokyo-period works, and "The Living City"
- Published by Taschen, ISBN: 9783836599672
What You'll Discover
- How Wright's use of steel and glass redefined the threshold between interior and exterior space across multiple building typologies
- The development of the Usonian house as a model for democratic, affordable American domestic architecture
- Wright's administrative and religious commissions alongside his residential work, revealing the breadth of a practice rarely reduced to a single mode
- The unrealised visions — including "The Living City" — that position Wright as a speculative urbanist as much as a building architect
About the Author
Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer is a leading authority on Frank Lloyd Wright, having worked at Taliesin and with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation for decades. His access to the Foundation's primary archives at Taliesin West in Arizona underpins this compilation, giving it a documentary authority that distinguishes it from secondary surveys of Wright's work.
Specifications
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 512
- Dimensions: 15.6 x 21.7 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783836599672
- Publisher: Taschen
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architecture students and historians studying American modernism, practitioners with an interest in organic architecture and the evolution of domestic design, and collectors seeking a definitive single-volume Wright reference.