West, Volume 3, Frank Lloyd Wright Field Guide [Paperback]

Thomas A. Heinz (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0471977470 | ISBN-13: 978-0471977476 | Publication Date: June 8, 1999 | Edition: Volume 3

The Frank Lloyd Wright Field Guide series provides the first comprehensive visitor's guide to all of Wright's buildings in the US and overseas. Each guide is written and compiled by an acknowledged expert on Frank Lloyd Wright, Thomas A Heinz. With his highly readable and informative style. Heinz presents each building page by page, providing brief histories and background details, information on accessibility and viewing, and directions from Interstate routes. Every entry is accompanied by a photograph and location map produced by the author. There are four books in the Field Guide series: Upper Great Lakes. MetroChicago, West and East. Each guide is arranged geographically, beginning in the northwest and ending in the southeast of the region covered. Full alphabetical and geographical lists enable buildings to be easily accessed either by location or name.

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This series provides the first comprehensive visitors' guide to all of Wright's buildings in the United States. Each guide is written and compiled by an acknowledged expert on Frank Lloyd Wright, Thomas A. Heinz. With his highly readable and informative style, Heinz presents each building page by page, providing brief histories and background details, information on accessibility and viewing, and directions from Interstate routes. Every entry is accompanied by a photograph and location map produced by the author. Full alphabetical and geographical lists enable buildings to be easily accessed either by location or name.

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The Frank Lloyd Wright Field Guide series provides the first comprehensive visitor's guide to all of Wright's buildings in the US and overseas. Each guide is written and compiled by an acknowledged expert on Frank Lloyd Wright, Thomas A Heinz. With his highly readable and informative style. Heinz presents each building page by page, providing brief histories and background details, information on accessibility and viewing, and directions from Interstate routes. Every entry is accompanied by a photograph and location map produced by the author. There are four books in the Field Guide series: Upper Great Lakes. MetroChicago, West and East. Each guide is arranged geographically, beginning in the northwest and ending in the southeast of the region covered. Full alphabetical and geographical lists enable buildings to be easily accessed either by location or name.

Product Details

• Paperback: 168 pages
• Publisher: Academy Press; Volume 3 edition (June 8, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471977470
• ISBN-13: 978-0471977476
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.3 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #808,036 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars book available in June 1999, East don't know, June 4, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: West, Volume 3, Frank Lloyd Wright Field Guide (Paperback)

this book is now available and the Publisher/Distributor, John Wiley & Sons, has it in their warehouse. It covers the Western US as well as Japan, Central America and South Asia. It is the first in the series to use color in the maps which makes them much more readable. The binding has been altered from the first two volumes but should shill lie flat when opened. The GPS numbers are entered in full. The Alphabetical index at the back locates all of the buildings for the first three volumes. There is a problem with the last volume, #4, East. The publisher is hesitating to bring it out. If you are interested in seeing the series complete, please write to the publisher, John Wiley & Son, in New York and request that it be published. These books bring a tremendous amount of new information on the buildings but expecially on the people who comisioned them, the clients. There are many new findings on buildings that have been demolished as well as those that were mereely planned. These make goot reading and make the humt for each pilgrimage site much easier and effecient. Each site is rated. The rating indicates how much effort one should expend to get to the site. A low rating does not mean the building is not a good one but that if you travel to see it, you may not be able to because it is inreachable or unseeable. Each community should take pride in having a world class design in it.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars California wrong, April 8, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: West, Volume 3, Frank Lloyd Wright Field Guide (Paperback)

The reader from California must have the wrong book. There is no photo of a decorative detail of the Hollyhock House. I checked on the cities and found that some are noted differently than other texts but are accurate. One example is the Sturges House (page 49) listed in Los Angeles, most others list it in Brentwood. After the OJ trial, everyone now knows Brentwood is actually a neighborhood of Los Angeles. The photo of the Millard House (page 61) is printed backwards but the house is symmetrical and is still recognizable.

The book reveals a great deal of new, previously unpublished material that adds a great deal to our understanding of Wright's work such as the sections on San Francisco and Los Angeles that give locations and information of the clients or sites for buildings that are demolished to those only proposed. It helps to make the work more real and exciting.

The California reader must keep in mind that the purpose of this book is to assist all the Pilgrims making their way to every one of Wright's work. For that it is one of the greatest books available as Wright's work needs to be seen in person to be appreciated.

I am sure we are all eagerly awaiting the last of the series, The East!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Essential for Wright-seers, July 12, 2002

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This review is from: West, Volume 3, Frank Lloyd Wright Field Guide (Paperback)

Has 2 critical and unique features for each site -- GPS address (in addition to street address) and the accessibility for public viewing. Before this book, I've wasting much travel time trying to find sites and then finding them completely hidden from view.