Frank Lloyd Wright Drawings [Hardcover]

Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 304 pages
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams (September 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0810981432
• ISBN-13: 978-0810981430
• Product Dimensions: 12 x 11 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,048,469 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing !!!!, May 7, 1999

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This review is from: Frank Lloyd Wright Drawings (Hardcover)

When I first saw the FallingWater House, I saw that FLW was really an special person. This book shows us that all his masterpieces were just a clue of what he was able to do, of the buildings he could create. In FLW Drawings, you can see many perspectives representing his newest toughts and ideas, and proving that he really would have changed the world of architecture if God had givven him 30 years more (as he used to say). article: Joăo Paulo Salgueiro

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, February 29, 2008

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magellan (Santa Clara, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Frank Lloyd Wright Drawings (Hardcover)

Wright designed over 1000 buildings, of which about 500 were actually built. This book includes 300 drawings of his most important projects. Wright was mainly a residential architect, but many of his most important civic and public buildings are here, too. Wright was a great draughtman as well as a great architect, and there is no better way to appreciate his genius than to study his drawings. And this book contains many of his most important projects.

Even the greatest of architectural monuments still start out with what might seem relatively ordinary floor plan and elevation drawings, but it is the really the first concrete step toward creating the final building, and Wright was a master draughtsman as well, which this book beautifully illustrates. Also, the floorplan is the only way to visualize the entire internal structure of a building at one glance--even after it's built--since you'd have to remove the roof to see it at that point. :-) Very beautiful and detailed miniature models are often created by architects of important projects, but even those are less common now due to the advent of architectural drawing software, but the original drawings are still a critical part of the overall design process.

If you love Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture, this book will give you a bird's eye view of many of his most important works.

4 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great book, December 13, 1999

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harald palma (Austria) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Frank Lloyd Wright Drawings (Hardcover)

I got this book last x mas. I still read and look at it every month. I think it's a great review of a very special person who really knew how to draw !