WRIGHT FRANK LLOYD

An analytical account of Wright's career, this text features recent photography, archival images and redrawn plans of the architect's best known buildings. The book also features a chronology of all Wright's buildings and projects. The monograph explores the underlying themes and principles of Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture. Robert McCarter's text and the many illustrations present the consistent and systematic qualities underlying all of Wright's designs. Wright himself described his life's work as being one singular effort, with the same ordering principles determining his architecture throughout his 60-year career. The book's chronological presentation, which emphasizes key designs and those related to them thematically, is therefore paralleled by an examination of the development of three primary principles, simultaneously active in Wright's design work, and singled out by him as being of fundamental importance in his understanding of architecture. First, Wright's development of concepts and methods for making architectural space; second, his development of concepts and methods for ordering space through the manner of its construction; and finally, his development of concepts and methods for establishing the relationship between his architecture and the landscape. A specially commissioned chronology of all Wright's buildings and projects by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer.