$175.99
- Hardcover
456 pages
- Release Date
25 March 2025
Summary
Newly revised, this comprehensive monograph on the renowned twentieth-century architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, explores both his major architectural designs and many of his minor projects in detail. Robert McCarter analyzes Wright’s work chronologically, exploring each building’s spatial experience, material, and tectonic character, and relationship to the landscape. Now in a fully revised and updated new edition, this definitive account of the life and work of the modern master features an ext…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781838668723 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1838668721 |
| Author: | Robert McCarter |
| Publisher: | Phaidon Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | Phaidon Press Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 456 |
| Release Date: | 25 March 2025 |
| Weight: | 2.33kg |
| Dimensions: | 305mm x 238mm x 41mm |
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Critics Review
Praise for the first edition:
‘Robert McCarter’s volume is a masterly achievement.’ – Times Literary Supplement
‘As a presentation of Wright’s complete career, it is difficult to imagine McCarter’s book being bettered.’ – Architects Journal
‘A sumptuous and revealing book… An intensely human and at times poetically interpreted description of Wright’s work and life.’ – World Architecture
About The Author
Robert McCarter
Robert McCarter is a practicing architect and has been Ruth and Norman Moore Professor of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis since 2007. He has written for numerous international publications, and his books include: Louis I Kahn (2022⁄2025); Place Matters: The Architecture of W. G. Clark; Grafton Architects (2018); Marcel Breuer (2016); Steven Holl (2015); Alvar Aalto (2014); Carlo Scarpa (2013); and Understanding Architecture, co-authored with Juhani Pallasmaa (2012); all published by Phaidon Press. He has also published The Work of MacKayLyons Sweetapple Architects: Economy as Ethic (2017); The Space Within: Interior Experience as the Origin of Architecture (2016); Herman Hertzberger (2015); and Aldo van Eyck (2015), among other books.
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