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A Frank Lloyd Wright Companion brings together in one handsome, oversized volume the essential details, descriptions, brief histories, photographs, and plans of everything built by America's best-known architect.

For the first time, William Allin Storrer presents complete plans of all Wright's work as built along with a remarkably rich treasury of critical information and rare anecdotal material collected over many years of research.

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Overview

A Frank Lloyd Wright Companion brings together in one handsome, oversized volume the essential details, descriptions, brief histories, photographs, and plans of everything built by America's best-known architect.

For the first time, William Allin Storrer presents complete plans of all Wright's work as built along with a remarkably rich treasury of critical information and rare anecdotal material collected over many years of research.

Surveying almost 450 buildings, each of which he visited at least twice, Storrer includes the full range of Wright's architecture--from vacation cottages in Montana and Michigan to such monuments of modernism as the Johnson's Wax Building and the Guggenheim Museum. He also includes buildings completed after Wright's death in 1959.

Organized to follow Wright's career from his first design, the interior of the Helena Valley Chapel near Taliesin, to his last built work, the Lykes residence in Phoenix, the entries feature:

A text that summarizes what is important about the history of each building, its commission, design, use, and client, its place in Wright's work, and its stylistic and engineering innovations.

1000 photographs of interiors and exteriors, most taken by the author. There are also elevations and historical images of buildings that are no longer standing.

Floor plans of Wright's built work showing changes in his preliminary plans, and each meticulously redrawn by the author.

As a comprehensive single-volume reference unmatched in scope, detail, and authority, the Companion will be an indispensable centerpiece of any Wright collection and any serious library of art and architecture.

For the first time, the complete plans of all of Wright's work as built along with a remarkably rich treasury of critical information and rare anecdotal material collected over many years of research. Features drawings of 701 floor plans--many published here for the first time. 1,000 halftones.

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Library Journal
With this volume, Storrer surpasses his previous catalog of Wright's work, The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright (MIT Pr., 1978), by compiling detailed plans, photographs, and brief histories of every structure built by America's most widely known architect. The very handsome oversized book details the range of Wright's output from cottages in Montana to the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Although the author denies its relevance, some color photography would have enhanced the text, and the lack of a bibliography is regrettable; also, Storrer continues his earlier use of zip codes as guides to locations, a device some users will find clumsy. Nevertheless, this volume is an essential purchase for serious architecture collections.-- Daniel J. Lombardo, Jones Lib., Amherst, Mass.
Booknews
An handsome, oversized (10.75x10.75") volume bringing together the essential details, descriptions, brief histories, photographs (960), and plans (635) of everything built by American architectural giant Wright (1867-1959). Organized chronologically, the Companion is a work-by-work guide to 433 buildings, from vacation cottages in Montana and Michigan to monuments of modernism such as the Johnson Wax Building and Guggenheim Museum, as well as a number of projects completed after Wright's death. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Donna Seaman
Wright expert Storrer has compiled "the" definitive Wright reference book. His splendid descriptive volume covers more than 450 buildings designed by master architect Wright between 1886 and 1959. Storrer documents each structure with plans, drawings, photographs, and commentary. Each presentation is both complete and concise, following each stage of Wright's aesthetic development, each leap of his imagination, and each instance of technical innovation. The surprisingly fluid text includes anecdotes about the circumstances leading up to important commissions and pithy discussions of the personalities and motivations of Wright's often unusual clients. Storrer is not only a scholar and writer, but a computer draftsman and photographer as well. He has painstakingly redrawn floor plans to accurately reflect the layout of the actual buildings, as opposed to Wright's preconstruction drawings, and taken most of the 965 photographs. Storrer carefully composed each shot to capture the play of light and shadow Wright orchestrated for both the interior and the exterior of his unique creations. While Storrer's "companion" is not as coffee-table pretty as some of the other Wright books out this past year, it is an invaluable, enjoyable, and authoritative resource.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780226776248
  • Publisher: University of Chicago Press
  • Publication date: 1/28/1994
  • Pages: 492
  • Product dimensions: 10.80 (w) x 10.91 (h) x 1.32 (d)

Meet the Author

William Allin Storrer has written and lectured on Frank Lloyd Wright for thirty-five years. He is the author of The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, now in its third edition.
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Table of Contents

AcknowledgementsPrefaceFrank Lloyd Wright BuildingsIllustration CreditsLocations by ZIP Code Index
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