Studies and Executed Buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright: Lloyd Wright Frank

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Frank Lloyd Wrights Wasmuth folios one of the most important publications on modern architecture in the 20th century is available once again from Rizzoli. First published in Germany in 1910 these 100 plates of Wrights early work had enormous influence on the architects of the time and will provide a valuable resource to historians and architects today. This facsimile edition includes the original selection of presentation and working drawings form the Oak Park period the years perhaps most crucial to Wrights development. Also faithfully reproduced are the architects own introduction and his comments on each project. A new foreword discusses the recently discovered historic background of these folios and Wrights intention to proffer them as a primer for a new democratic American architecture.