By Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer. This book covers all of his designs (numbering approximately 1100), both realized and unrealized. This is the Wright stuff and the definitive publication on America’s greatest architect. The three-volume monograph features all of Wright’s designs (numbering approximately 1100), both realized and unrealized. Volume 2 covers the post-World War I years and the Usonian concept house period. His wide-ranging and paradigm-shifting oeuvre is the subject of Taschen’s three-volume monograph that covers all of his designs (numbering approximately 1100), both realized and unrealized. Made in cooperation with the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives in Taliesin, Arizona, this collection leaves no stone unturned in examining and paying tribute to Wright’s life and work. From his early Prairie Houses (typified by the Robie House) to the Usonian concept home and progressive’living architecture’ buildings to late projects like the spiral Guggenheim Museum in New York and the development of his fantastic vision of a better tomorrow via his concept of the’living city’, all of the phases of Wright’s career are painstakingly described and illustrated herein. Author and preeminent Wright expert Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer highlights the latest research and gives fresh insight into the work, providing new dating for many of the plans and houses. A plethora of personal photos gives readers a feeling of what it was like to work in Frank Lloyd Wright’s fellowship, traveling each spring from Taliesin West to the old Taliesin complex in Wisconsin and returning the next fall to spend the winter in sunny Arizona again. Volume 1 is dedicated to the early Chicago years and Prairie Houses, the period which provoked a profound influence on European architects. Volume 2 deals with the work after World War I, beginning with the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo and covering Wright’s quest to design affordable houses with systematic construction methods and the Usonian concept house, with the forest-sited villa Fallingwater being the dramatic climax. Volume 3 starts after World War II, when Wright’s organic’living architecture’ introduced ideas for the use of solar energy and curved open spaces. In addition to the Guggenheim museum, the postwar era also saw extraordinary projects such as Wright’s plans for a new Baghdad, his only realized high-rise tower in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, the crystal figure of the Beth Sholom Synagogue in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, and an endless row of houses that reached new complexity by floor plans based on hexagons and playing with intersecting angles. Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer became Frank Lloyd Wright’s apprentice at the Taliesin Fellowship in 1949. In 1957, he attended the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris, returning in 1958 to continue his apprenticeship with Wright until his death in 1959. He remains at Taliesin to this day. He is director of the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives, a vice-president of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, and the author of numerous publications on Wright’s life and work. X 18.3 in. Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. Please contact Customer Services and request “Return Authorisation” before you send your item back to us. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. Home, Garden & Pets. Sign up to our newsletter to hear about new items and our latest offers. The item “Frank Lloyd Wright by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer Hardcover Book (English)” is in sale since Wednesday, May 04, 2016. This item is in the category “Books\Nonfiction”. The seller is “grandeagleretail” and is located in Fairfield, Ohio. This item can be shipped worldwide.
- Format: Hardcover
- ISBN-10: 3836509261
- ISBN-13: 9783836509268
- Author: Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer
- Publication Year: 2010
- Language: English
- Educational Level: Trade
