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Dover Architecture Ser.: Drawings and Plans of Frank Lloyd Wright : The Early Period, 1893-1909 by Frank Lloyd Wright (1984, Trade Paperback, Reprint)

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"I would much rather build than write about building, but when I am not building, I will write about building -- or the significance of those buildings I have already built." -- Frank Lloyd Wright Frank Lloyd Wright built a body of works and drawings to illustrate and explain his work: collections of designs with commentary that temperamentally parallel that work: irascible, radical, powerful and dense, astonishing and simple in its clarity. One of his earliest published works illustrates the parallel, preserving thought and design at a prophetic moment, shortly before Wright's genius and fame captured two continents and many converts. The Wasmuth portfolio of drawings (named after the original German publisher) is reproduced here from an extremely rare first edition (1910). Wright's polemical preface indicates the importance he attached to the drawings and their publication: ". . . the work illustrated in this volume, with the exception of the work of Louis Sullivan, is the first consistent protest in bricks and mortar against this pitiful waste [academic, inorganic styles]. It is a serious attempt to formulate some industrial and aesthetic ideals that in a quiet, rational way will help to make a lovely thing of an American's home environment. . . ." "Home environment" for Wright was the Midwestern plain; these these drawings, perhaps his earliest experiments in organic design, partake of the Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin prairie with their emphasis on the horizontal ("the line of domesticity") and the environmental motif: "A beautiful elm standing near gave the suggestion for the mass of the building," Wright says of the Winslow house in River Forest, Illinois, a dwelling he cites as the first embodiment of many of his ideas. Elegant full-page architectural drawings and plans show Wright's atelier in Oak Park, Illinois, many homes, cottages, banks, a burial chapel, Unity Church temple, a concrete house designed for Ladies' Home Journal and numerous studies for buildings, treated as problems in design, that were never built. The republication of this rare work gives access again to what has been called "the single most important collection of work published by Frank Lloyd Wright." Students of American architectural genius will find here the seeds of Wright's greatness.

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Publisher
Dover Publications, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0486244571
ISBN-13
9780486244570
eBay Product ID (ePID)
191755

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Book Title
Drawings and Plans of Frank Lloyd Wright : the Early Period, 1893-1909
Author
Frank Lloyd Wright
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Features
Reprint
Topic
Design, Drafting, Drawing & Presentation, Individual Architects & Firms / General
Publication Year
1984
Genre
Architecture
Number of Pages
112 Pages

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Item Length
13.7in
Item Width
10.8in
Item Weight
18.6 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Na737.W7a4 1983
Edition Description
Reprint
Edition Number
2
Copyright Date
1983
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
82-018229
Dewey Decimal
720/.22/2
Series
Dover Architecture Ser.
Dewey Edition
19
Illustrated
Yes

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