First comments are about series, applicable to all three volumes: they are exactly what they claim to be, complete record of Wright's work with great photos and plans. Some have griped that many plans and drawings too small: it would be impossible to do unless you either made this a 20 volume series or make the books bigger... and they are HUGE already. We live in a golden age of architecture publishing: 30 years ago there were few books with color photographs of Wrights work, in fact one of about 8" x8" on his drawings and then various hard-to- obtain books by Japanese publisher GA. Now there are too many books too list. This Taschen series has unusual photos, never seen-before drawings and good summaries by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer. Yeah, I can complain too about not having enough photos or some I don't like but it is easy enough to buy other Wright books to fill the gaps for bigger and more photos. As a Wright fan-atic, I am thrilled to have these books where one gets the entire span of his remarkable career, from renderings with horse and carriages to private atomic-powered helicopters. If you are not a Wright fan, there are far cheaper and smaller books that will be more than enough; if you are a Wright fan or into the history of architecture, all three volumes are worth having.
Volume 3 probably has the greatest flowering of his work, with that constant range from tiny little cottage (dog house in one case) to giant public architecture or even city planning. This includes his work that borders almost on fantasy (whether one likes it or not) such as Huntingon Hartford club in Hollywood Hills (a project that echoes one of his first romantic visions, for the Doheny Ranch project in volume 2) and plan for Bagdad, both with their wonderful color renderings, or the Mile High Tower, with the BurjAlKhalif began to make this not a fantasy idea anymore. In fact this volume has some of the best renderings because there were so many unbuilt projects and the pencil renderings seemed to become more and more colorful. So if you are only getting one volume and you like visionary projects combined with beautifully executed homes of all scales, this is the one to choose.
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