50 Favorite Houses by Frank Lloyd Wright

by Diane Maddex

This gorgeous volume celebrates the great houses designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, the world's noted and America's most popular architect. An illustrated introduction provides an overview of design principles and Wright's ideas behind the modern home and is followed by sections on Early Houses, Prairie Houses, 1920's and 1930's Houses, and Usonian Houses. Elegant full-color photographs and an authoritative yet accessible text profile fifty of the best-loved signature homes that the architect created. Written by award-winning author, Diane Maddex, this lush companion to its hugely successful predecessors, Fifty Favorite Rooms by Frank Lloyd Wright and Fifty Favorite Furnishings by Frank Lloyd Wright, offers an approachable look at the architect's definitive decorative style.

Genres: Architecture

128 pages, Hardcover

Published March 1, 2001

Reviews

[Kathleen · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book was really disappointing. It begins with a short but great introduction that describes some of the most important ideas that shaped Wright's work. There's an emphasis on built ins, open floor plans, spaces for living in a new way. The rest of the book is photos of the exteriors of houses. Which wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the fact that the whole point of these houses is how you live in them, not just how you look at them. It's like reading a book about computers and the only thing they show you is the plastic case that holds all the important parts. It makes no sense whatsoever.

The pictures are pretty though. So, I guess that's something.

[Ed · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice write-ups about each home that give context and tie them to his various phases.

Most houses though only had one photo, from the street, so a lot of what was being described could not be seen.