Lloyd Wright: The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright Jr.

by Alan Weintraub

Gorgeously illustrated with new color photographs, this is the first definitive look at the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, Jr. (1890-1978), known as Lloyd Wright, who had a long, successful, but generally overlooked career in Southern California. Writer Anais Nin, who knew Lloyd Wright in the 1940s, wrote, "He is a poet of architecture. For him a building, a home, a stone, a roof, every inch of architecture has meaning".For the last 10 years, internationally renowned architectural photographer Alan Weintraub has been painstakingly documenting Lloyd Wright's exquisite buildings in superb detail. More than 590 images, most published here for the first time, reveal how Lloyd Wright masterfully fused landscape with built form, creating beautiful syntheses of nature, Southern Californian modernism, and the exotic influences of Japan and South America.

Thirty-one of Wright's finest works, mostly residences built in and around Los Angeles, are featured extensively, and an exhaustive reference section includes an illustrated chronology with Wright's own archival sketches.

Genres: Architecture

428 pages, Hardcover

First published September 30, 1998

Reviews

[Kitap Yakıcı]

Frank Lloyd Wright Jr. didn't design nearly as many landmarks as his dad, but the houses in this book are all very interesting to look at, as one might expect. FLW meets UFOs. The painstaking attention to the design of the details in each house is amazing.

[KT]

Interesting to see what FLW Jr took from father's aesthetic. Some more ornate, some nicer simplicity, but many design principals there. Great photographs and commentary, many examples. Will want to find more of Weintraub's books.