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    Understanding Frank Lloyd Wright's Architecture

    By Donald Hoffmann

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    "May be the best book on Wright ever written, with the exception of the master's own incomparable autobiography." — New York Times Book Review
    Despite the vast literature about Frank Lloyd Wright, noted Wright scholar Donald Hoffmann contends that observations about Wright commonly fail to reach any understanding of his art and few commentaries deal with the principles of his architecture. What inspired his work? How did his architecture mature? What are the dynamics of its characteristic expression? Why will the formative principles always be valid?
    The answers to these and other questions about Wright's architectural philosophy, ideals and methods can be found in this superb treatment, enhanced with 127 photos, plans, and illustrations of a host of Wright masterworks. Among these are the Robie house, the Winslow house, Fallingwater, Hollyhock House, the Larkin Building, Unity Temple, Taliesin, the Guggenheim Museum, the Johnson Wax Building, and many more.
    Expertly analyzing Wright's approach to siting, furnishing, landscaping, and other details, Mr. Hoffmann has written an insightful guide to the concepts that gave Wright's architecture "not only its extraordinary vigor of structure and form, expression and meaning, but its surprising continuity." The book will be essential reading for all Wright fans and anyone interested in the evolution of modern architecture.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateApr 4, 2012
    ISBN9780486135779
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      Frank Lloyd Wright is probably still America's best known and iconic architect with 433 projects listed in Storrer's work catalog. FLW's buildings all share a common look of Japan/Pueblo meets Hobbit romanticism.In this unassuming booklet with plenty of B/W photos and illustrations, Hoffmann distills the essence and principles of FLW's architecture: the horizontal lines hugging the ground, the cantilevered roof freeing walls from structural duties, the integration of buildings in their natural surroundings.While Hoffmann dwells on the importance of the prairie on Wright's style, he neglects in my opinion the influence of Japanese buildings (a culture rediscovered shortly before FLW's birth). A discussion of his near contemporary Walter Gropius who also discovered many of Wright's lessons might have served to illustrate Wright's closeness to the 19th century with his focus on craftmanship and uniqueness. Overall, an excellent primer on Wright.