My Father, Frank Lloyd Wright
Title | My Father, Frank Lloyd Wright PDF eBook |
Author | John Lloyd Wright |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | 210 |
Release | 2012-04-19 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 0486140628 |
Charming memoir, by his son, of Wright as genius, father, and family man. The book also includes the complete text of William C. Gannet's The House Beautiful, a work designed by Wright. 10 halftones.
My Father who is on Earth
Title | My Father who is on Earth PDF eBook |
Author | John Lloyd Wright |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 264 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN |
On March 6, 1945, after hearing rumors that his son, John, was writing a book about their stormy past, Frank Lloyd Wright wrote a note asking him, "What is this talk of a book? Of all that I don't need and dread is more exploitation. Can't you drop it?" John assured his father that he would like the book and sent him a copy on its publication--March 29, 1946. A few days later, Frank Lloyd Wright returned it with numerous comments penciled in the margin, responding to what his son had written, and with a request that a new, second copy be sent to him. John complied with the request but first transcribed not only all his father's comments into the clean copy in black pencil but also his own answers to them in red pencil. He also transcribed all these comments into a third copy, again using colors to differentiate his comments from those of his father. This third copy is the basis for this new edition of John Lloyd Wright's book. The main text of this volume is a reprint of the 1946 edition along with marginal notes, comments, and corrections made by John Lloyd Wright and his father, as well as explanatory notes and an introduction by Narciso G. Menocal. In the postscript, Elizabeth Wright Ingraham, John Lloyd Wright's daughter, remembering her grandfather and father, says that in this edition "what was a son's book becomes a father and son book."
Frank Lloyd Wright
Title | Frank Lloyd Wright PDF eBook |
Author | Frank Lloyd Wright |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | 308 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9780393732610 |
The most influential, provocative, and enduring writings of the American master are gathered in this anthology.
To My Father
Title | To My Father PDF eBook |
Author | Iovanna Lloyd Wright |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 3 |
Release | 1959 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Who Was Frank Lloyd Wright?
Title | Who Was Frank Lloyd Wright? PDF eBook |
Author | Ellen Labrecque |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 114 |
Release | 2015-12-29 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0399539727 |
Born in Wisconsin in 1867, Frank Lloyd Wright became obsessed with a set of building blocks his mother had given to him on his ninth birthday. He grew up to become the father of organic architecture and the greatest American architect of all time, having designed more than 1,100 buildings during his lifetime. These included private homes – such as the stunning Fallingwater, churches, temples, a hotel, and the world-famous Guggenheim Museum in New York City. When asked how he could create so many designs, he answered, “I can’t get them out fast enough.” Frank Lloyd Wright was a man ahead of his time who could barely keep up with his own ideas!
Truth Against the World
Title | Truth Against the World PDF eBook |
Author | Frank Lloyd Wright |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 500 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN |
Frank Lloyd Wright
Title | Frank Lloyd Wright PDF eBook |
Author | Jan Adkins |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 305 |
Release | 2008-10-30 |
Genre | Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1101564962 |
Frank Lloyd Wright was the most influential architect of the twentieth century?and a rogue genius whose life was a wild ride. Wright routinely ignored unpaid bills, clients? wishes, budget constraints. Only his creative vision mattered to him. That vision transformed the way we live, sweeping aside the Victorian home and creating a uniquely American architecture exemplified by his Prairie Style houses. Wright built hotels, churches, and offices, too, incorporating endless innovations in techniques and materials. Ideas poured out of him throughout his long career; he called it ?shaking the design out of my sleeve.? Jan Adkins?s fascinating biography of this compelling, infuriating, largerthan- life figure will change the way every reader looks at architecture.