Read Frank Lloyd Wright: A Complete History

Frank Lloyd Wright built for seventy years and never repeated himself twice in the same way: the Prairie house that dissolved the Victorian box, the concrete temple and office that announced a new American monumentality, the Tokyo hotel that rode out an earthquake, the house over a waterfall, the lily-pad columns of Racine and the white spiral on Fifth Avenue. He called it all one thing — organic architecture — and meant a discipline, not a mood: a building grown from its site, its materials and its purpose as a plant grows from its seed. This book follows the whole life and the whole argument, from the Froebel blocks of a Wisconsin childhood to the eight buildings the world inscribed as its heritage in 2019.