Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings Plans and Designs (86 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A new book and D.J. that is un used and unmarked 128 pages . Contains more than 100 full-color and black and white photos of exteriors and interiors of Wright's most admired buildings. and many of his architectural plans and drawings. Included are some fascinating designs that were never executed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. (2004), oblong 4to, 128pp, illustrated. VG+ in VG+ dj. From the dj: "Contains more than 100 full color and b&w photographs of exteriors and interiors of Wright's most admired buildings and many of his architectural plans and drawings. Included are some fascinating designs that were never executed, such as the plans for the San Marcos-in-the-Desert resort complex in Chandler, Arizona.".

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Shows the floor plans and designs for homes, banks, public buildings, and furniture created by Wright and other members of the Prairie School. Shows the floor plans and designs for homes, banks, public buildings, and furniture created by Wright and other members of the Prairie School. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Louis Isadore Kahn (1901-1974) treated each building like a temple. Across the United States, in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Israel, his designs combined the sleek, utilitarian surfaces of modernism with a devotion to geometric forms and a reverence for natural light that suffused his stuctures with a monumental and breathtaking spirituality. This essential introduction brings together 17 of Kahn's most important buildings across his cultural, governmental, religious, and residential repertoire. Plans, views, descriptions, and quality photographs trace the context and development of each project, while an introductory essay explores Kahn's unique architectural ideology and his legacy as one of the most important 20th-century American architects since Frank Lloyd Wright. Through Kahn masterworks, such as the National Assembly Building in Dhaka, Bangladesh, or Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, we'll explore Kahn's his "back to basics" grammar inspired by ancient sites in Italy, Greece, and Egypt; and his unique vocabulary of mass, void, and light that suffused the International Style with a near-celestial luminescence. Meet the man who treated each building like a temple. From Dhaka, Bangladesh, to La Jolla, California, this book traces the extraordinary architectural language of Louis Isadore Kahn, the pioneering modernist who inflected the International Style with a "back to basics" classical grammar and pierced its sleek masses with geometrical shapes and near-celestial spots of sunlight. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First US Edition. Stated first U.S. printing. A guide to the designs and finished public buildings of the noted American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. With a lengthy introduction by Martin Pawley, followed by 94 plates displaying the works and plans in black & white as well as in color. An entry in publisher's "Library of Contemporary Architects" series. --- In full black paper-covered boards with titling stamped in silver to cover and spine. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- With light soiling to endpapers and minor soiling to cloth, else a bright, clean, unmarked copy.; Small Quarto (9 to 11 in. tall); 130 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Hailing from Vienna, Rudolph Michael Schindler (1887-1953) emigrated to Chicago in 1914, like his lifelong friend and rival Richard Neutra. Eventually hired by Frank Lloyd Wright to work in Los Angeles, Schindler took cues from notions found in Cubism and the International Style to shape his unique vision: a style he called "space architecture," combining geometrical shapes, bold lines, and materials such as wood and concrete, with space as a medium in its own right, one to be controlled just like color or mass. This radical approach earned Schindler little recognition in his lifetime-but today, he is hailed as one of America's most important Modernist pioneers. Discover such key projects as the Wolfe House, nestled in a steep hillside; the tree house-like Falk Apartment Building; the Lovell Beach House, recognized as one of the foremost examples of the Modernist canon in America; the Schindler/Chace House, Schindler's most crucial work and his personal practice and home, which he shared with his family and that of Neutra. From private homes to small commercial buildings, Schindler's groundbreaking designs heralded a new era of contemporary construction. This collection is complete with a map locating all of the architect's most renowned projects, detailed entries, floor plans, as well as crisp photography of each structure and its interiors. Meet Rudolph Michael Schindler, the Austrian-born architect who combined Cubism, the International Style, and Californian Modernism into "space architecture." Unnoticed for decades, his structures are today hailed as landmarks of the Modernist movement. This collection presents Schindler's most important projects through crisp photography, floor plans, texts, and maps. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardback. Condition: New. This richly illustrated survey, bound in an elegant portable format, profiles the most architecturally distinguished new houses from around the globe. Features 300 color photographs and 150 black-and-white architectural drawings. The diversity of the fifty-five houses featured in this photo-packed volume, by architects like Alvaro Siza, Tony Fretton, Hild und K, Jim Jennings Architecture, and Souto Moura Architects, demonstrates that the single-family home continues to play a pivotal role as a means of architectural expression and experimentation in the new millennium. These structures, all designed, commenced, or completed in the past four years, range from Tucson's Campbell Cliffs, a 25,000-square-foot mansion that reimagines Frank Lloyd Wright's classic prairie style on a massive scale, to the Living Room in Gelnhausen, Germany, a house-cum-artwork whose living room can slide from the facade like a drawer to become a balcony! Author Jonathan Bell, an experienced architecture journalist, divides the book into four chapters that correspond to the main trends he discerns in the featured buildings: "The House in the Landscape" presents houses that stand alone in the landscape as architectural statements in the grand Modernist tradition; "New Urban Sites" highlights homes that fit into a larger architectural fabric; "Pragmatic Solutions" focuses on designs for livable, affordable, and environmentally sustainable housing; and "The Future" surveys architects' varying visions of tomorrow's house. The case studies of individual houses within these chapters include not only the architects' own plans and elevations but also a generous number of full-color interior and exterior photographs-some 300 in all. Useful supplementary features, including an introduction that illuminates the present state of residential architecture and project credits that include contact information for the featured architects, ensure that this handily-sized volume will be welcomed by all practitioners, students, and enthusiasts of architecture.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. "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. The complete Wasmuth drawings, 1910. Wright's early experiments in organic design: 100 plates of buildings from Oak Park period from first edition. Includes Wright's iconoclastic introduction. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. 334 pages, illustrations (some colour), plans, portraits; 31 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held February 20 to May 10, 1994. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. Profusely illustrated. *** "Undeniably the greatest architectural genius of his time, Frank Lloyd Wright produced a vast body of work that defined and redefined American architecture. This book, published to accompany a retrospective exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, presents a comprehensive summary of his vision - from the turn of the century until his death in 1959 - and a new assessment of his remarkable achievement. A wealth of illustrations, including many in full color, present newly restored original drawings of his designs as well as photographs of built works. Wright's residential architecture provided images and models for generations of suburban building across the United States. Among his best known works are single-family houses: the Prairie houses; the California Textile Block houses; Usonian houses for middle-class America; and spectacular commissions for wealthier clients, such as Fallingwater, the famous house constructed on natural rock and cantilievered dramatically over a waterfall. Wright also explored community planning and low-cost housing, and he executed a wide range of institutional and commercial projects. Among the latter are the Larkin Company Administration Building in Buffalo; Unity Temple in Oak Park, Illinois; the S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. Administration Building and Research Laboratory Tower in Racine, Wisconsin; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York; and the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo - all landmarks in the history of architecture. Wright's most spectacular commissions are presented in these pages along with a representative selection of works from all periods of his unusually long and productive career. Projects are shown through photographs of buildings and models, through plans and sketches, and through reproductions of the architect's masterful drawings, many previously unpublished. Research for the book has drawn upon many sources, including unrestricted, independent access to The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and Archives. A pragmatist and brilliant technical innovator, Wright was also an aggressively independent thinker and articulate advocate for his views. The essays in this book, by distinguished architectural critics and historians, not only chart the development of his work, but also define the essence of his thought, which had its core in Emersonian spiritualism. Exploring the resonance of Wright's career in twentieth-century American society, the authors discuss his views on individuality and community, craftsmanship and technology, and nature and the built environment; his relationship to European modernism; and his autocratic advocacy of a democratic architecture." - Publisher. Size: 4to.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. An A-Z listing of Wright's work, family, friends, and the major events which shaped his career, a fascinating and comprehensive guide to Wright's life and times. It features over 100 stunning photographs. including aerial pictures, interior and exterior shots of his most acclaimed buildings, and details of his exquisitely crafted, elegant furniture and interior designs. A chronological section shows how Wright's career developed and lists every building that he ever worked on as well as plans which never reached fruition. May require extra postage due to size and weight.

2. edition. 211 pages, mostly illustrated with plans, text English and Japanese Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 2800 4°, Hardbound, dust jacket, slipcase.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. Large portfolio of ONE HUNDRED drawings, plans and designs by renowned architect FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT. String-tied portfolio holder; 32pp large booklet; 100 large plates (loose). The booklet has a few small library stamps; plates and portfolio holder are unmarked. LIMITED EDITION no. 407E. Dimensions: 26"x 16"x 2".

Hardback. Condition: New. Polley, Robbie (illustrator). Fifty of the world's most important buildings seen through specially commissioned isometric illustrations and detailed photographs and plans, providing the perfect introduction to architecture for students and anyone interested in buildings.Taking readers behind architecture's facades and finishes, this charmingly illustrated book explores how some of the most important buildings in the world were constructed. Specially commissioned isometric drawings present the essential structural elements of the world's masterpiece buildings that are not visible to the naked eye. These illustrations are displayed alongside plans, details, and photographs, all of which are clear and accessible, yet accurate and elegant enough to satisfy the most discerning eye.This fascinating book explores the thinking and expertise behind architects' designs and offers a means by which to better understand buildings already visited as well as those on the must-see list. Selections range from domestic structures such as Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater and skyscrapers such as the Chrysler Building, to iconic classics such as the Louvre and Barcelona's famed Sagrada Familia Cathedral. The buildings have been chosen for their importance and interest, their role in the development of architectural thinking, and the structural secrets that intricate 3-D drawings can reveal.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. vii, [1], 232 p.: illustrations, plans; 30 cm. Grey cloth with black spine and cover titles. No dust jacket. Presents designs for apartment buildings that had previously appeared in Architectural Record in the past few years and for dormitories and other college housing. Includes articles on design and construction of housing in Vallingby in Stockholm; Brazil and Peru; and Park Forest, Illinois; as well as Castlemont Gardens in Oakland, California; the H. C. Price Tower, the only skyscraper by Frank Lloyd Wright ever built; Fordham Hill Apartments in the Bronx, NY; U.S. embassy staff housing in Tokyo; the Elkay Apartments in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles by Richard Neutra; the Brentwood Garden Apartments in Los Angeles, described as "apartments designed for single people"; the Bel Air Garden Apartments in Los Angeles by A. Quincy Jones, Jr.; housing at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, by Marcel Breuer; a cooperative dormitory at Vassar College, also by Breuer; and residence halls by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. Scarce. In Near Fine Condition: slightly cocked; clean and tight.

Hardback. Condition: New. '60 fantastical structures described and illustrated in this colourful and highly entertaining book.' The Sunday Times 'If you can't think of a present for the armchair architect in your life - well, problem solved' The Daily Telegraph 'These ghostly architectural echoes entrance the reader.' The Field 'This is a lavishly illustrated book of wonder for the dreamer in your life' The MetroA skyscraper one mile high, a dome covering most of downtown Manhattan, a triumphal arch in the form of an elephant: some of the most exciting buildings in the history of architecture are the ones that never got built. These are the projects in which architects took materials to the limits, explored challenging new ideas, defied conventions, and pointed the way towards the future. Some of them are architectural masterpieces, some simply delightful flights of fancy. It was not usually poor design that stymied them - politics, inadequate funding, or a client who chose a 'safe' option rather than a daring vision were all things that could stop a project leaving the drawing board. These unbuilt buildings include the grand projects that acted as architectural calling cards, experimental designs that stretch technology, visions for the future of the city, and articles of architectural faith. Structures likeBuckminster Fuller's dome over New York or Frank Lloyd Wright's mile-high tower can seem impossibly daring. But they also point to buildings that came decades later, to the Eden Project and the Shard. Some of those unbuilt wonders are buildings of great beauty and individual form like Etienne-Louis Boullée's enormous spherical monument to Isaac Newton; some, such as the city plans of Le Corbusier, seem to want to teach us how to live; some, like El Lissitsky's 'horizontal skyscrapers' and Gaudí's curvaceous New York hotel, turn architectural convention upside-down; some, such as Archigram's Walking City and Plug-in City, are bizarre and inspiring by turns. All are captured in this magnificently illustrated book.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. If you've ever wanted to step inside a house designed by frank Lloyd Wright or if you've ever dreamed of living in one The Wright Style offers the next best thing: an extraordinary look inside dozens of Wright's incomparable houses, all of them filled with countless inspiring ideas from America's favorite architect. From "pure" Wright houses to homes where his decorative magic has been mixed with related styles, the book captures the essence of the architect's timeless designs the spaces, the textures, the colors, the light, the furniture, the special features that all say Frank Lloyd Wright. As the magnificent houses here show, each of Wright's buildings was a complex composition of many interrelated elements; he regarded them as symphonies. Wright designed not just the shell, but everything inside as well: furniture, skylights, art glass windows, light fixtures, textiles, carpets, wall murals, decorative accessories, even the landscaping. Illustrating how Wright affected and inspired other houses, The Wright Style also presents interpretations of Wright's principles by some of his followers and apprentices providing a guided walk through a century of his unsurpassed influence on design. And for those who love Wright but who cannot live in complete, authentic rooms or purchase antique Wright furnishings, the book's catalogue of products makes it possible at least to bring a touch of the Wright style home. "Wright's ideas have so permeated our architectural world that we have lost track of the source," writes author Carla Lind. "His open floor plans led to family rooms, kitchens open to living areas, indoor spaces open to outdoor living spaces, garden rooms, decks, and carports. His use of glass opened window walls and brought generous amounts of light and inspiring vistas into rooms. He altered America's collective subconscious. By bringing together many elements and inspirations, most neither new nor original, he was able to synthesize fresh new forms that reflected the character of the nation." The first book to highlight Frank Lloyd Wright's extraordinary contributions to interior design, The Wright Style opens the doors to more than 40 houses designed by Wright and his followers and includes an illustrated catalogue of sources for the furniture, rugs, wallpaper, lighting fixtures, textiles, and accessories shown. Over 250 photographs, most in full color. Targeted mailings. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Elephant folio, 30 pages in text, 100 mounted plates printed on heavy card stock. Foreword by William Wesley Peters. Limited edition copy 445E of 2600. 32 page booklet enclosed. Plates bright, clean and fresh. KARPEL B1332." A near but not exact facsimile of the Wasmuth `Ausgefuhrte Bauten,' published in Berlin in 1910. H. Allen Brooks, the distinguished Wright scholar calls the Wasmuth original the `most influential book ever published by Wright , and probably the most influential book on architecture published during our century.' The Horizon facsimile is very well done and essential to the student of Wright." SWEENEY 1534. Repair to first cover sheet: Guide To Terms Used In The Plans and black chemise holding the individual pages. Wear to board portfolio, cloth ties lacking. Orig. cloth and board portfolio. Very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A monumental folio of 100 large drawings and plans of Buildings designed by the renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright, it comes with a booklet which gives a brief description of each and features works from the early years of his career (1893-1910). This is the American edition printed in a limited number of 2,600, it is a monograph that was originally published as the Wasmuth Portfolio (1910) in Germany that had a profound effect on architecture in both Europe and America. This is an amazing record of plans for buildings by one of the 20th centuries most famous architects - some of which were completed and some never to be built. (This American edition was printed to replace the 500 original copies of the German edition that burned in the Taliesin House fire.) This copy is NO. 101 E. The portfolio is complete and is in excellent condition, the portfolio cover has minor shelf ware. Additional shipping will be required , dimensions: 25"x16"x2".

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Very Good. The importance of the architect to the quality and character of any society is not usually as widely regarded as it deserves to be. While every past civilization is, to a considerable extent, recognized and judged by its architecture, its creators are in general little known or revered; it would seem as though the buildings which are of such importance to our lives have spontaneously appeared as if by magic. Civilizations are more widely evaluated by their literature, music, painting and sculpture and other useful artefacts, while architecture is merely taken for granted. In this century, however, where great and far-reaching developments have occurred which require examination and justification, architects have come to be regarded with a mixture of interest, suspicion and sometimes dismay. All this has served to transform the interest of the general public in architecture and the architect is beginning to be appreciated and valued. When they have great strength of character, lucidity of exposition and, in the view of the media, an interesting personal history as well, they have become publicly recognized figures of social importance. None more so than the subject of this book whose personality and achievement has, unlike many of his peers, dominated the first half of this century. With such figures as Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe, he is recognized as a creative architectural genius. His singular individual achievement, as a native-born American, was to gather together the strands of American historical architecture and create a corpus of work which is both modern and essentially American.Frank Lloyd Wright's career, sometimes tragic, sometimes tempestuous--at alltimes creative--has been examined and re-examined in numerous studies and articles both during his lifetime and since his death in 1959 shortly before his most famous and notorious Guggenheim Museum in New York was completed. And his life continues to demand re-examination as the progress of architectural philosophy inspires dramatic stylistic change. This concise consideration of his life and work offers a careful analysis of this complex, powerful and confident personality as well as the architectural legacy left behind by him. This richly illustrated collection of Wright's early architecture includes essays on his work by architects of the period and by Wright himself. Features more than 200 photographs, plans and drawings of his early residential and commercial designs.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. white & full color glossy photo illustrated (cover of book and cover of dustwrapper are identical in appearance) hardcover ~ 2º (folio ~ 12"x10"). large "coffee table" book, international or priority shipping will cost extra. dustwrapper in protective brodart book jacket cover. very fine cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in very fine cond. as new. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing (FPu1999 & nap). glossy full color photo frontis. 416p. gloss pages throughout. key to symbols. "1000 stunning (glossy full color) photographs". A to Z listings. chronology. bibliography. art history. art books. architecture. biography. american history. landscaping. interior design. americana. ~ FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT was a pioneer in the modern style ~ he is widely considered one of the most innovative and influential figures in modern architecture. Wright's long career of over 70 years encompassed modern technological developments in both building materials and techniques and he was one of the first architects to explore and exploit the new opportunities that these exciting developments made possible. His work was unfailingly inventive and beautiful and his influence over design around the globe throughout the 20th century has been immense. He is a giant figure in both the world of art and of architecture; an innovator and genius whose turbulent life witnessed many tragedies and triumphs. This book offers an insight into the incredible spirit of America's foremost architect. An A~Z listing of his work, family, friends, and the major events which shaped his career, Frank Lloyd Wright, A Visual Encyclopedia provides a fascinating and comprehensive guide to Wright's life and times. It features over 1,000 stunning photographs ~ many of which are new ~ including aerial pictures that have never been taken before. interior and exterior shots of his most acclaimed buildings, and details of Wright's exquisitely crafted, elegant furniture and interior designs. To the side of each entry a symbol categorizes the subject matter and bold highlights throughout the text make cross referencing and finding additional information easy and enjoyable. A chronological section shows how Wright's career developed and lists every building that he ever worked on as well as plans which never reached fruition. This account is a wonderful companion suitable for those interested in the turbulent life of a true artist and his place in American history.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Gainesville. 2018. September 2018. University Press of Florida. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780813056906. September 2018. hardcover. keywords: Architecture. DESCRIPTION - William Morgan (1930-2016) was a bold, innovative, and highly imaginative architect known internationally for fusing ancient and modern styles and for his early championing of green design principles. This extensively illustrated book traces Morgan's life story and the development of his singular design vision. Exploring Morgan's early influences, Richard Shieldhouse reveals the architect's childhood familiarity with pre-Columbian village sites and introduces college mentors who encouraged his interest in both architecture and archaeology. During navy service in the Pacific, Morgan studied ancient structures in Guam as well as Frank Lloyd Wright's design work in Japan. Later, his drive and discipline brought him into contact with leading architects such as Paul Rudolph at Harvard's Graduate School of Design, a hotbed of modernism at the time. From there, Morgan struck out on his own in Jacksonville, Florida, to shape the course of architectural history. This book tracks the evolution of Morgan's guiding ideas-economy, efficiency, visual delight, imaginative use of everyday materials, and environmental sensitivity. His most famous designs are featured with photographs, drawings, and the architect's own commentary. Structures such as the Dunehouses, a duplex built into the side of an oceanfront dune, represent Morgan's commitment to earth architecture. His plans for police headquarters and other public buildings incorporate green roofs, stepped terraces, pyramid forms, and other elements inspired by aspects of prehistoric design. Morgan was unique among architects for his interest in ancient North America and for blending a modern style characterized by its rejection of history with the design language of prehistory. Highlighting how his work has impacted many areas of architecture such as urban design, this book celebrates Morgan's continuing legacy. inventory #43965.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. pictorial hard covers, dust jacket, 431 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans, portraits ; 23 x 29 cm.,A guide to the great architect's work features color photos of all of the buildings he designed, with information on Wright's life and philosophy, biographical information on his clients, and more.CONTENTS: A biography Early houses 1887-1910 Houses from 1911 Non-residential buildings Decorative arts.Includes index.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Nice copy large octavo 130pp., col. & b/w pls., plans, bibliog., index, A guide to the designs and finished public buildings of the noted American architect.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. The first major presentation in decades of the visionary drawings of the artist-architect and master designer. Frank Lloyd Wright was an architect of vast and unprecedented vision, whose work is not only still admired by the critics and carefully studied by historians but is also widely beloved. Comfortable spaces, humanly scaled, with extraordinary attention to detail-as seen in a range of architectural forms-are at the center of Wrights enduring appeal. This vision and attention is nowhere more evident than in the drawings. It has been said that had Wright left us only drawings, and not his buildings as well, he would still be celebrated for his brilliant artistry, and this is borne out here. Even more significant, and shown here as never before, are the magical first moments of invention and inspiration-Wrights earliest sketches, some never before published-which offer unique insight into the mind of the master architect.Frank Lloyd Wright Designs is the most important and comprehensive book to be published on the drawings, designs, conceptual sketches, elevations, and plans of Wright, with particular emphasis on the development of certain important projects. It includes the best-known and beloved projects-like Fallingwater, The Coonley House, Midway Gardens, the Guggenheim, the Imperial Hotel-as well as a range of intriguing, unfamiliar, and previously unpublished drawings by Wright. "The first major presentation in decades of the visionary drawings of the artist-architect and master designer. Frank Lloyd Wright was an architect of vast and unprecedented vision, whose work is not only still admired by the critics and carefully studied by historians but is also widely beloved. Comfortable spaces, humanly scaled, with extraordinary attention to detail-as seen in a range of architectural forms-are at the center of Wright's enduring appeal. This vision and attention is nowhere more evident than in the drawings. It has been said that had Wright left us only drawings, and not his buildings as well, he would still be celebrated for his brilliant artistry, and this is borne out here. Even more significant, and shown here as never before, are the magical first moments of invention and inspiration-Wright's earliest sketches, some never before published-which offer unique insight into the mind of the master architect. Frank Lloyd Wright Designs is the most important and comprehensive book to be published on the drawings, designs, conceptual sketches, elevations, and plans of Wright, with particular emphasis on the development of certain important projects. It includes the best-known and beloved projects-like Fallingwater, The Coonley House, Midway Gardens, the Guggenheim, the Imperial Hotel-as well as a range of intriguing, unfamiliar, and previously unpublished drawings by Wright." Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Condition: Fine. Number of books: 1 book.

Quarto; hardcover, with gilt spine titles and illustrated endpapers; 256pp., with many colour and monochrome illustrations. Minor wear. Dustwrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Near fine. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. A skyscraper one mile high, a dome covering most of downtown Manhattan, a triumphal arch in the form of an elephant: some of the most exciting buildings in the history of architecture are the ones that never got built. These are the projects in which architects took materials to the limits, explored challenging new ideas, defied conventions, and pointed the way towards the future. Some of them are architectural masterpieces, some simply delightful flights of fancy. It was not usually poor design that stymied them - politics, inadequate funding, or a client who chose a 'safe' option rather than a daring vision were all things that could stop a project leaving the drawing board. These unbuilt buildings include the grand projects that acted as architectural calling cards, experimental designs that stretch technology, visions for the future of the city, and articles of architectural faith. Structures like Buckminster Fuller's dome over New York or Frank Lloyd Wright's mile-high tower can seem impossibly daring. But they also point to buildings that came decades later, to the Eden Project and the Shard. Some of those unbuilt wonders are buildings of great beauty and individual form like Etienne-Louis Boullee's enormous spherical monument to Isaac Newton; some, such as the city plans of Le Corbusier, seem to want to teach us how to live; some, like El Lissitsky's 'horizontal skyscrapers' and Gaudi's curvaceous New York hotel, turn architectural convention upside-down; some, such as Archigram's Walking City and Plug-in City, are bizarre and inspiring by turns.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This issue is dedicated to various kinds of patterns in architecture. Buthayna Eilouti and Amer Al-Jokhadar address patterns in shape grammars in the ground plans of Mamluk madrasas, religious schools. Giulio Magli goes back further in history, to the age of Greek colonies in Italy before they were conquered by the Romans, to examine patterns in urban design. In Traditional Patterns in Pyrgi of Chios: Mathematics and Community Charoula Stathopoulou examines the geometric patterns that decorate the buildings of the town of Pyrgi, on the Greek island of Chios. Curve Fitting is a study of ways to construct a function so that its graph most closely approximates the pattern given by a set of points. Dirk Huylebrouck s paper examines how a pattern of points extracted from an arch might be associated to a precise mathematical curve. James Harris looks at the designs of Frank Lloyd Wright and Piet Mondrian to extract the rules of their pattern generation and propose possible applications.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Newly revised, this comprehensive monograph on the renowned twentieth-century architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, explores both his major architectural designs and many of his minor projects in detail. Robert McCarter analyzes Wright s work chronologically, exploring each building s spatial experience, material, and tectonic character, and relationship to the landscape. Now in a fully revised and updated new edition, this definitive account of the life and work of the modern master features an extensive selection of archival drawings, specially commissioned photographs, redrawn plans, and detailed drawings, as well as a complete list of Wright s buildings and projects compiled by the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives. A comprehensive monograph on Frank Lloyd Wright, one of the great masters of modern architecture Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: New. 8vo (23.5 x 23.5 cm), X, 188 pp. Publisher's cloth. The villas of Andrea Palladio have been among the most influential buildings in history. Drawing on the architect's original published legacy of forty-odd designs, George Hersey and Richard Freedman reveal the rigorous geometric rules by which Palladio conceived these structures. Where most earlier attempts to analyze the villas are mere lists of numbers and ratios that ignore space distribution, the present rules produce actual designs. Using a computer, the authors test each rule in every possible application, establishing a degree of validity not possible in ad hoc analyses. Progressing from the architect's most obvious to his subtlest ideas, the computer ultimately creates villa plans and facades that are stylistically indistinguishable from those of Palladio himself. Possible Palladian Villas opens the way to similar analyses of other such "paradigmatic" designs, whether Chinese screens, Greek temples, baroque churches, or Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie Houses. In fact a new approach to architectural history emerges: we can study designs that a given master might have produced but did not. Palladio's actual buildings, along with those of his generations of imitators, are set into the context not only of a new theory but of a new type of theory. Along with the Macintosh disk that runs the program, Possible Palladian Villas will fascinate the design community and students of architectural style, symmetry, and geometry. It will fill architectural historians with bracing dismay. George Hersey is Professor of the History of Art at Yale University. Richard Freedman, who designed the computer program, is a product marketer working on MS-DOS at the Microsoft Corporation.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. As new condition black boards/red spine/silver spine lettering contained in a fine condition photographic dust jacket. Includes Foreword and Glossary of German Words in the Ground Plans. Profusely illustrated with black-and-white photographs and blueprints. Small red remainder dot at upper page edge. This Gramercy edtion is an unabridged reproduction of the Ausgefuhrte Bauten, a collection of photographs of architecture by Frank Lloyd Wright that was first published in Berlin by Ernst Wasmuth in 1911." - from copyright page "Originally published as Ausgefuhrte Bauten in Germany in 1911, Frank Lloyd Wright: Early Visions reproduces the first book of photographs of Wright's architecture. Here are the works of what is called his Oak Park period, the years between 1893 and 1910 when Wright lived and worked in Oak Park, Illinois. Included are more than thirty houses, as well as some public buildings. In 1910, although Wright's practice was prospering in Illinois, his reputation was modest in the rest of the United States. As his earlier employer and mentor Louis Sullivan had learned, Americans were not ready to approve, let alone applaud, a native architecture not based on European models. In Europe, however, Sullivan and Wright were appreciated. In fact, Wright was so highly esteemed that publication of his works was being assembled in Germany. Wright went to Berlin in order to oversee these major books being prepared by Ernst Wasmuth. In 1910 Wasmuth published the Ausgefuhrte Bauten und Entwurfe, a gorgeous portfolio containing one hundred plates in unbound sheets. These showed architectural plans as well as details of the ornaments on Wright's most important building to date. The following year Wasmuth brought out Frank Lloyd Wright: Ausgefuhrte Bauten, of which this book is a facsimile. Another version of the book, Frank Lloyd Wright: Chicago - part of the series Sonderheft der Architektur des XX Jahrhunderts - was also published by Wasmuth in 1911; the many additional photographs in that version have been reproduced in Early Visions as a supplement to the Ausgefuhrte Bauten. The original introduction by the British Arts and Crafts leader C.R. Ashbee was translated into German - and has been translated back into English for this edition. Wright's genius was extraordinary and timeless, but his concepts were nevertheless firmly grounded in his era, particularly in the Arts and Crafts movement that flourished in America between 1875 and 1920. While Britain's John Ruskin and William Morris were known as forerunners of the movement, Frank Lloyd Wright would become its most renowned American star. The style of his architecture fit into what was called the Prarie School, and its strongest inspiration was the landscape of the Midwest, the long, horizontal horizon of the western plains. The Prarie style is seen in Wright's Unity Temple, in houses such as the Susan Lawrence Dana residence, and in the Frederick C. Robie residence, its most famous and mature expression. All of these buildings are thoroughly documented in this book. Early Visions covers the idealistic, formative years of Frank Lloyd Wright's career. In many ways, they were the most important years. A number of the buildings reproduced have been demolished, but many others still stand. Indeed, today under the auspices of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Oak Park celebrates the Frank Lloyd Wright Prarie School of Architecture in a National Historic District, with twenty-five structures by Wright. It is the largest collection of his built designs in the world. His home and studio at 951 Chicago Avenue, where he lived and worked from 1889 to 1909, is open to the public, and tours of his other buildings may be arranged. In this new edition of the first book of Wright's architectural photographs, the spirit of these and other early works by the greatest of American architects remains bold and vital." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.