Author(s): Goessel Et Al

Architecture & Design | Secondhand

 American icon Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was an architect of aspiration. He believed in giving cultivated American life its fitting architectural equivalent and applied his idealism to structures across the continent, from suburban homes to churches, offices, skyscrapers, and the celebrated Guggenheim Museum. Wright's work is distinguished by its harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture, and which found its paradigm at Fallingwater, a house in rural Pennsylvania, cited by the American Institute of Architects as "the best all-time work of American architecture."

Exploring Wright's aspirations to augment American society through architecture, this book offers a concise introduction to his at-once technological and Romantic response to the practical challenges of middle-class Americans.

Fine in near-fine dust jacket.