Frank Lloyd Wright: Preserving the Architectural Heritage- Decorative Designs From the Domino's Pizza Collection

by David A. Hanks

Book Overview

This book is a survey of the decorative designs by the great architect. A sensational book on architecture This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525245227
• ISBN13: 9780525245223
• Release Date: July 1989
• Publisher: E. P. Dutton
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.8" x 11.3"

Customer Reviews

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This tremendous book, brought to you by the nation's favourite pizzeria, shows a genius at work. What is evident in the work of Lloyd Wright, and what can certainly be seen in this magnificent retrospective, is his continual striving to incorporate innovation with consistency in order to create an architectural grammar which was, though eclectic, uniquely American. Take, for example the Larkin Building, in which the architect showed his willingness to experiment with new materials and technologies. Just as Lloyd Wright innovated with air-conditioning, plate-glass windows, integral desk furniture and suspended toilet bowls, so the Domino's Master Piemaker brings an almost symphonic unity to his work with multifaceted swathes of mushroom, cantilevered tranches of melting cheese and geometric designs hewn from pork. As David Hanks says in his helpful introduction "The romantic spirit that Wright brought to all his buildings is that same unabashed virtuosity that is brought boxed and piping hot to your door (thanks to their revolutionary new HeatWave packaging system) when you phone for a delicious Domino's pizza from any one of their 6200 franchised stores worldwide".