The definitive publication on America's greatest architect. The three-volume monograph features all of Wright's designs (numbering approximately 1100), both realized and unrealized. Made in cooperation with the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives in Taliesin, Arizona, this collection leaves no stone unturned in examining and paying tribute to Wrights life and work. Author and preeminent Wright expert Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer highlights the latest research and gives fresh insight into the work. Volume 3 starts after World War II, when Wrights organic living architecture introduced ideas for the use of solar energy and curved open spaces. In addition to the Guggenheim museum, the postwar era also saw extraordinary projects such as Wrights plans for a new Baghdad, his only realized high-rise tower in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, the crystal figure of the Beth Sholom Synagogue in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, and an endless row of houses that reached new complexity by floor plans based on hexagons.
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Peter Gossel runs a practice for the design of museums and exhibitions. He is the editor of TASCHEN's monographs on Julius Shulman, R. M. Schindler, John Lautner and Richard Neutra, as well as the editor of the Basic Architecture series. Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer became Frank Lloyd Wright's apprentice at the Taliesin Fellowship in 1949. In 1957, he spent a year in Paris and attended the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris for five months. Pfeiffer returned to Taliesin in 1958 and continued his apprenticeship with Wright until his death in 1959. He remained at Taliesin and has done so to this day. He is director of the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives and a vice-president of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. Pfeiffer is the author and editor of numerous publications on Wright's life and work.
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Should have been better,
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This review is from: Frank Lloyd Wright Complete Works, Vol. 3: 1943-1959 (v. 3) (Hardcover)
I highly anticipated this book but the reality of it is somewhat disappointing. Starting with the cover. Woodgrain? Wright would have hated it! But the content is what matters. On that score, it's a mixed bag. On the plus side, the generous dimensions of the book are appreciated. The book is well-illustrated with Wright's conceptual sketches, floor plans, elevations and perspectives. However, the photography is often less than mediocre. The best-known buildings are mostly represented with professional photographs and interesting vintage shots, including some construction photos. But far too many houses are shown with subpar and small photos by the likes of Thomas Heinz, etc. That is inexcusable when so many excellent images are available of ALL Wright buildings! Did the editors even do a search on Flickr and other websites for available images? When I spend $125.00 for a book, I expect top-notch photography throughout. A book of this kind, which claims to be definitive, should have been produced with a commitment to excellence.
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I don't need to read this in three languages,
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I didn't mind the oversize shape of the book to terribly. Nor does using a magnifying glass to view the drawings bother me enough to bestow a negative review. These are compromises I'm willing to accept in order to have a complete overview of Wright's work. However, I could do without the tri-lingual text. I suspect that is/was a mandate of the publisher, but it does nothing for me but add needless pages and cost. And actually, I'd be more than happy with the extra pages (and cost) if they contained more or larger photos/drawings instead of the other languages.
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This review is from: Frank Lloyd Wright Complete Works, Vol. 3: 1943-1959 (v. 3) (Hardcover)
My wife and I have made a hobby of studying Frank Lloyd Wright's residential architecture. We've visited Wright designed homes throughout the country and hope to build a Wright inspired Usonian-type retirement home. We have collected 20+ books depicting Wright's work to better inform ourselves of the proportions and details required to create "the look" we want to achieve. We purchased this volume and the companion volume Frank Lloyd Wright, Complete Works 1917-1942 because they contain Wright's original drawings (which are in and of themselves works of art) and because they are so comprehensive--including projects that were never built. The drawings are reproduced from Wright's original works so they are authentic. They are beautifully printed. The downside is that reproducing detailed images of large drawings requires spacious pages so the volumes are large and heavy. This makes them difficult to shelve and tiring to use. Even though the format is over-sized for a book, it is not large enough to reproduce Wright's original drawings without significant reduction so a magnifying glass is required to see finer details. (I suspect the finest lines in Wright's original work have been lost altogether.) Every public library should probably have this set and we will probably add Volume I to our collection when it is released. But we are pretty fanatical. For most home libraries it is probably overkill.
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