Frank Lloyd Wright: His Life and His Architecture

About this book

A complete biography based on a wide range of previously untapped primary sources covering Wrights private life architecture and role in American society culture and politics. Views Wrights buildings as biographical as well as social statements analyzing his work by type category and individual structure. Examines Wrights struggle to develop a new artistic statement his dramatic personal life and his political and economic ideas including those on cities energy conservation cooperative home building and environmental preservation. Includes over 150 illustrations (photographs floor plans and drawings--many never before published) extensive footnotes and the most exhaustive bibliography of Wrights published work available.