Frank Lloyd Wright

by Thomas A. Heinz

Book Overview

This is a state-by-state guide to all the homes and buildings designed by probably the 20th century's most prolific and influential architect. Also includes an informative introduction, a section on Wright's interior designs, a list of demolished buildings, and a chronology. Illustrated with over 300 full-color photographs.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312303319
• ISBN13: 9780312303310
• Release Date: March 1982
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Oh, if this were 12" x 11" or larger!

Finally, someone gets it right, every full color photo page is exactly that, full page, no interruptions. There's a 6 page introduction and a 5 page short descriptive paragraph regarding each page. Meanwhile, the book shines with it excellent mix of close up photos of exterior shots, interior and some detail photos such as stained glass and one of a chair in a room. Man, if this book was large, whew doggy, it'd be what I've been looking for all along while I've been building my big FLW photo book collection with inexpensive purchases. I can't find one of the large books where main content, like this book, say 4/5's of the pages, are dedicated to color photos that take up the entire page and 17 are 2 full faceing pages of one big photo mostly interior shots. That is the way to go with this subject. Let it shine. This is a total 5 star masterpiece if it's twice the size. As it is, it's well worth owning for the high quality photos and how they completely take over the pages. It's a shame the binding prevents a full flattening of the photos, a minor complaint. I'm glad I own it. chrisbct@hotmail.com

Superior signature photos, 83 projects, little text

In this album review, 83 architectural projects (mostly houses) are illustrated by excellent signature photos in color and without text descriptions or technical drawings. The only text is an introductory analysis of technical aspects of the Wright's designs on 7 pages with illustrating b & w photos on 5 pages. The book has glossy, white paper and high quality printing and binding, but it is slightly inferior to "Frank Lloyd Wright American Architect For The Twentieth Century". ISBN: 1854901052 (HC), ISBN: 1854901109 (PB), ISBN: 0312072430 (HC) or ISBN: 0312071493 (PB) only. CONTENTS: 6 Evidence of Intelligence PROJECTS 18 Charnley House, 1891 20 McArthur House, 1892 21 Winslow House, 1892 24 Emmond House, 1892 24 Bagley House, 1894 25 Moore House, 1895 28 Heller House 1896 29 Romeo and Juliet Windmill, 1896 30 Williams House, 1897 32 Smith House, 1897 32 Furbeck House, 1897 33 Lincoln Center, 1899 34 Bradley House, 1900 36 Henderson House, 1901 36 Thomas House, 1901 38 Fricke House, 1902 39 Willits House, 1902 40 Dana House, 1902 46 Barton House, 1903 47 Little House, 1903 48 Heurtley House, 1903 52 William A Martin House, 1902 53 Darwin D Martin House, 1904 56 Cheney House, 1904 56 Wescott House, 1904 57 Glasner House, 1905 58 Tomek House, 1906 60 HuntHouse, 1906 62 Unity Temple, 1906 70 Heath House, 1907 72 Gilmore House, 1908 73 Stockman House, 1908 73 Coonley House, 1908 74 Davidson House, 1908 75 Robie House, 1909 76 Irving House, 1909 76 Balch House, 1911 77 Little House, 1913 78 Taliesin, 1911-1959 80 Imperial Hotel, 1916 82 Munkwitz Apartments, 1916 82 Richards Type Prefab House, 1916 83 BogkHouse, 1916 83 Hayashi House, 1917 84 Yamamura House, 1918 86 Gakuen School, 1920 88 Millard House, 1922 89 Freeman House, 1923 90 Storrer House, 1923 91 Barnsdall House, 1923 94 Ennis House, 1924 95 Jones House, 1929 96 Johnson House, `Wingspread', 1937 99 Taliesin West, 1938 102 Pope House, 1939 103 Sturgess House, 1939 104 Lewis House, 1940 106 Jacobs House, 1943 108 Smith House, 1946 109 Miller House, 1946 110 Unitarian Church, 1947 112 Adelman House, 1948 114 Mossberg House, 1948 116 Alsop House, 1948 116 Morris Gift Shop, 1948 117 Anthony House, 1949 117 Laurent House, 1949 120 Zimmerman House, 1950 122 Wright House, 1950 123 Harper House, 1950 123 Keyes House, 1950 124 Walker House, 1950 125 Adelman House, 1951 125 Wright House, 1953 126 Hagan House, 1954 128 Lovness House, 1954 131 Pappas House, 1955 131 Kundert Medical Clinic, 1955 132 Beth Sholom Synagogue, 1957 134 Kalil House, 1957 134 Fasbender Clinic, 1957 135 Mann County Building, 1957 138 Friedman House, 1959 140 List of Projects 142 Bibliography

The First of the Best

There are some of the best of the photos of Wright's work in this book, After seeing this work, Edgar Kaufmann, jr. hired Heinz to take the photos for his Fallingwater coffee table book. Aparently the Reader from California has copied this review on to several of Mr. Heinz's book pages. This review does not seem to be appropriate to this book. This can easily be determined by simply looking at the three wonderful photos of the Hollyhock house. None of them are upside down. None of the 100 photos are mis-identified. These are wonderful photographs and this may be the first of Mr. Heinz's 20 some books, all are delight to have and look through. Mr. Heinz, we want more of your work, keep at it.

California Reader Extremely WRONG

As a practicing architect and architectural historian living in California, I have found this book to be an essential part to my research for projects designed by FLW. The photography is rich and alive. I have visited most of the buildings included in this book, the photography could not be more powerful. What else can be expected from such a talented author as Mr. Heinz? Another fine book by Mr. Heinz and cannot wait to see his upcoming book on Green and Green's Blacker House.