Frank Lloyd Wright : designs for an American landscape, 1922-1932

Spirn, Anne Whiston, 1947-, author.

Book 1996

During the 1920s, as the five remarkable projects in this book show, Frank Lloyd Wright developed architectural prototypes of far-reaching consequence. None of these schemes - Doheny Ranch, the Lake Tahoe summer colony, and the A. M. Johnson desert compound, all in California, the Gordon Strong automobile objective in Maryland, and San Marcos in the Desert, a compound of hotel and houses in Arizona - were built. But in them, Wright explored advan...

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ISBN:

9780810939813
0810939819

Description:

207 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 31 cm

Notes:

Catalogue of an exhibition co-sponsored by the Canadian Centre for Architecture (shown June 18-Sept. 22, 1996), the Library of Congress (Fall 1996), and the Frank Lloyd Foundation
Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Frank Lloyd Wright : designs for an American landscape, 1922-1932 / David G. De Long
Frank Lloyd Wright, architect of landscape / Anne Whiston Spirn
Symbol and catalyst : the automobile in architectural representation before 1930 / C. Ford Peatross
Frank Lloyd Wright chronology, 1922-1932 / Robert L. Sweeney

LCCN:

95030509

Control Number:

62391

Other Authors:

Centre canadien d'architecture
De Long, David Gilson, 1939-
Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
Library of Congress
Peatross, C. Ford
Sweeney, Robert L. (Robert Lawrence), 1945-

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