A Taliesin Legacy: The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright's Apprentices (Architecture Series) (Hardcover)

by Tobias S. Guggenheimer (Author) "In 1932 Frank Lloyd Wright celebrated his 65th birthday safely delivered into the pantheon of world history's most creative figures..." (more)
Key Phrases: organic architecture, exterior view, exterior perspective, Frank Lloyd Wright, Fay Jones, Taliesin Fellowship (more...)

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From Library Journal
In a time when publishers are eager to flood us with books about the legacy of Frank Lloyd Wright, there is still a dearth of information about the work of students who studied at Wright's Taliesin Fellowship in Wisconsin and Arizona. Guggenheimer (architecture, Pratt Inst.) has assembled an encyclopedia study of the projects planned and/or built by these students, who eagerly embraced Wright's ethic of organic design. While the author did his research and gathered his quotes from the architects in yeoman fashion, the result is flawed. Too many of the photographs of finished buildings look as if they were shot with old Instamatic cameras at dusk. Because scholars and interested lay readers need to know what Taliesin Fellowship designers have wrought, we will have to live with this shortcoming. Sadly, the greater failure here is well beyond the author's control?these disciples of Wright, hero worshippers all, offer building designs that scream with excesses of thrust and sweep and drama, as if making loud and bizarre structures rather than organic architecture will put them on the post-Wright map. Recommended for larger architecture collections.?David Bryant, New Canaan P.L., Ct.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Description
In this monumental book, the author unveils hundreds of photos and original interviews tracing the careers of thirty architects who apprenticed with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin. Among those interviewed are Fay Jones, Aaron Green, John Lautner, Anthony Putnam, Paolo Soleri, and Edgar Tafel.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Wiley (June 27, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471286427
• ISBN-13: 978-0471286424
• Product Dimensions: 12.3 x 9.7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,493,985 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rekindling the Home fire, March 5, 2000

By	Earl Ledden (Sandy Creek New York) - See all my reviews

Too bad FLW is not able to read this book. He would have seen where his apprentices have taken his work ,and, through their eyes, how he was remembered. We, the living, are more fortunate. Like any kid, what first attracted me to this book was the pictures,in COLOR no less! But it gets even better;this book brings to life the memory fo FLW by those who knew him best,and gives life to his architecture as it is practiced by his proteges. Now I can feel the presence of the man when I see his work. As an aside,it is time for a book for us empty-nested babyboomers who would like a bungalow sized home with FLW written all over it. We want style,simplicity,function,efficiency,ecology,and enviromental soundness in our space,without all the space;an update of Usonia,a sort of Wright Lite. I hope the apprentices of the apprentices are listening. Meanwhile,read this book!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It shows the great results of FLLW's teachings still going., November 7, 1997

By	[e-mail] "my_bookshelf" (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Taliesin Legacy: The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright's Apprentices (Architecture Series) (Hardcover)

The book shows the selected works of several of FLLW's most famous and not so famous apprentices works which have been done since the master passed away in 1959. A great book for the non believers who think the teachings or practices of Mr. Wright died in 1959 when he did. This book shows incredible results of just where organic architecture is today. Check out the works of Edgar Tafel, Cunningham, Milton Stricker, Bob Beharka, Eric Lloyd Wright, Lloyd Wright, John Lautner all of whom I'm fortunate to know and to have known. A great book to have as a part of your collection to show to your friends or those who don't think they are interested in Wright's work, it'll change them into believers fast. Also a great gift for budding architects to steer them in the right (Wright) direction. We can only hope that the work of many lessor known apprentices and fellows of Taliesin gets published soon as Volume #2.