For the first time, all 289 extant houses designed by the master architect are shown here in exquisite color photographs. Along with Weintraub's stunning photos and a selection of floor plans and archival images, the book includes text and essays by several leading Wright scholars.
Focusing on interiors and details, this book features more than 70 prairie-style houses and other buildings, still extant, in lavish, full-color photography.
The San Francisco Bay Area is one of the most beautiful and romantic spots in America, and for over a hundred years some of the country's greatest architects have graced the region with their work. Bay Area Style houses exhibit a distinct and frequently dramatic relationship to the out-of-doors while suggesting a feeling of informality. Emerging ...
Frank Lloyd Wright presents a stunning overview of the work of this towering American genius, encompassing the entirety of Wright's long and extraordinarily prolific career. From his earliest work, such as the Home and Studio in Oak Park, IL, of 1889, to the wonderfully evocative textile block houses of Los Angeles of the mid-1920s, to such ...
Oscar Niemeyer is one of the greatest architects of our time. Hugely influential, his work has added a new dimension to modern architecture in the twentieth century. The designer of Brasilia showed that the rhythmic, sensuous lines of Brazilian Modernism were as legitimately modern as the rectilinear lines of the Bauhaus. Oscar Niemeyer Houses ...
The mid-twentieth century was one of the most productive and inventive periods in Wright's career, producing such masterworks as the Guggenheim Museum, Price Tower, Fallingwater, the Usonian houses, and the Loveness House, as well as a vast array of innovative furniture and object design. With a variety of shapes and forms-ranging from honeycombs ...
"Mid-Century Architecture in Modern California" reveals the work of the innovative architects building in California from the 1930s to the 1970s. With groundbreaking and illuminating examples that will alter the way we think of California architecture, Hess and Weintraub focus on those that exemplify early mid-century modern, variations on ...
The open plains, sublime mountains and glorious West Coast of America have provided the inspiration for some of the most inventive and exciting residential design in contemporary America. Highly original modern designs or variations on classical ruins, moorish fantasies, Deco delights and prismatic follies are found in works by such ...
Accompanying the bestselling "Frank Lloyd Wright: The Houses," this exceptional publication features Wright's major projects and programs, including such masterpieces as the Guggenheim Museum, Unity Temple, and Taliesin. 300 color and 30 b&w photos.
Frank Lloyd Wright Jr., known as Lloyd Wright (1870-1978), is arguably one of the greatest undiscovered architects of the 20th century. Over a ten year period, architectual photographer Alan Weintraub has documented his buildings in colour and in fine detail. This monograph offers a comprehensive presentation of Lloyd Wright's complete oeuvre. ...
Offers a tour of the ease and elegance that prospers amidst the vineyards and lush hillsides of the California wine-growing regions. Saeks visits more than 25 wine country homeowners as they enjoy the seasonal splendour of outdoor dining, vine covered vistas, sun dappled interiors and spectacular scenery.
The charming architecture and interiors so beloved from Western movies and TVshows distinguish the beautiful homes in "Rancho Deluxe, " the essential guideto living in style, the Western way. 240 color photos. 15,000print.
John Lautner is recognized as one of the foremost architects who practiced at the height of the modern movement. In "The Architecture of John Lautner," stunning photography and insightful text illuminate the work of this modern master. This revised and condensed reprint of the Rizzoli title of the same name outlines all of Lautner's residential ...
Surveying over 125 years this book traces the trends of organic architecture, architecture that interprets a building's design, structure, use, and life as an organic thing. Showcasing the work of architects such as Louis Sullivan, Frank Furness, Frank Lloyd Wright and Bruce Goff to lesser knowns these architects embraced a fresh style that used ...
At age 100, Oscar Niemeyer is universally acknowledged as a master of form, color, and light--the last living Modern master. Niemeyer is known primarily for his large-scale institutional and civic designs throughout Brazil and Europe--daringly conceptual works that challenged twentieth-century orthodoxy about Modernism, materials, and structure. ...
Through biography, analysis and interviews, this volume traces the span of architect John Lautner's career from the 1940s to the 1990s. It contains photographs of 25 important designs revealing his multifaceted houses, particularly his innovative use of modern structural systems - steel, cantilevers, wood bents and concrete. Lautner's residential ...
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