Frank Lloyd Wright - Architect Book

Phaidon Press, 1997. Robert McCarter. Hardcover, 368 pages, Excellent condition. This book provides an overview of one of the greatest masters of modern architecture, a true generational talent. Included are beautiful illustrations of many of Frank Lloyd Wright's most well known buildings. Robert McCarter's text analyzes Wright's work emphasizing key designs and works relating to them, in parallel to an examination of several predominant themes active in Wright's design work. The themes of space and the spatial experience of the user are thus examined, alongside a discussion of construction and a tectonic order, and an investigation of the relationship between Wright's architecture and the landscape.