Books : Frank Lloyd Wright Prairie Houses
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by: Alan Hess
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 720.973
EAN: 9780847828586
ISBN: 0847828581
Label: Rizzoli
Manufacturer: Rizzoli
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: November 14, 2006
Publisher: Rizzoli
Release Date: November 14, 2006
Sales Rank: 713228
Studio: Rizzoli
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With the advent of Prairie style architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright embarked on a journey that would forever change the course of architecture. During this extraordinarily prolific period, roughly the first quarter of the twentieth century, Wright built the first great modern American houses. He cast aside many of the conventions of the past, opening up interior spaces so that there might be a more subtle flow of rooms. The plans for Prairie style architecture were based on a tartan plaid of main spaces and secondary spaces, of public rooms and circulation spaces. Their decentralized asymmetry did not follow the Beaux Arts insistence on a primary, often dominating, focal point—a vestige of its roots as a symbolic architecture for divine-right royalty. Following Wright's philosophy, Prairie design was emphatically democratic and non-hierarchical. Frank Lloyd Wright Prairie Houses comprehensively demonstrates this philosophy. Focusing on interiors and details, the book features more than 70 Prairie style houses and other buildings, still extant, in lavish, full-color photography.
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Rating:  - Hundred Year Old Houses that Still Look New
Frank Lloyd Wright's work around 1900 developed what are called the Prairie Houses. These houses split off from traditional American architecture to establish themselves as the start of what is truly American. These houses are open with horizontal lines that reflect the prairie from which they get their names.
One surprising thing about the Prairie Houses is that they still look so modern that they could fit into any new sub-division being developed today. They certainly formed the ... Read More
Rating:  - Not a Worthy Sequel to a Fine Book
Given the the high quality of Frank Lloyd Wright The Houses, this book was disappointing.
Rating: - Unworthy sequel
In the wake of the magnificent "Frank Lloyd Wright: The Houses", this followup volume disappoints on several levels. I expected some duplication with the earlier book. Certainly, extended coverage of the iconic works such as Dana, Robie and Coonley was warranted. As pointed out in my review of the previous book, many houses received coverage only via a thumbnail photo appendix. I anticipated these works would receive expanded coverage here, for the most part I was wrong. What we get instead is ... Read More
Rating: - Worthy sequel and incredible book in its own right
A sequel to the early collaboration of Alan Weintraub and Alan Hess on Frank Lloyd Wright houses, this work focuses on a series of houses the Wright office completed at the first decade of the century, dubbed "Prairie Style." The book contains some brief essays, prefaces, and then a series of phenomenal photographs of what are arguably the most influential group of houses of the twentieth century.
Ironically the impact of these Prairie houses was spread through the lithographs of the ... Read More
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