Frank Lloyd Wright

The world's most famous Oak Parker, not to mention our biggest tourist draw, Frank Lloyd Wright has left an imprint on our town everywhere. We keep an extensive selection of Frank Lloyd Wright titles on hand at all times--below is just a small selection of what we have to offer in the store. For more information on Frank Lloyd Wright and local tours, please visit:

 

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ISBN-13: 9780892073856
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Published: Guggenheim Museum, 8/2009
Published on the occasion of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum's fiftieth anniversary, and in association with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, this fascinating, beautifully designed volume is the first to fully explore the process behind one of the greatest, most iconic Modern buildings in America-and the world. It examines the history, design and construction of Wright's masterwork with preliminary drawings, models and photographs, as well as three major essays that consider the building in three important contexts.

The Women (Hardcover)

$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780670020416
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Published: Viking Adult, 2/2009
T.C. Boyle's novelized account of Wright's life, as told through the experiences of the four women who loved him, blazes with his trademark wit and invention.

$19.95
ISBN-13: 9780764951497
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Published: Pomegranate Communications, 9/2009
A long overdue updated pictorial of Unity Temple. Contains vivid, all-new photography.

$27.99
ISBN-13: 9780764937460
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Published: Pomegranate Communications, 9/2006
The best, most up-to-date pictorial of Frank Lloyd Wright's Oak Park buildings. Spectacular new photography of every extant house as well as Unity Temple, plus the inside cover includes a detailed map of all of their locations.

$33.96
ISBN-13: 9780764945953
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Published: Pomegranate Communications, 9/2008
The only book to cover not only Frank Lloyd Wright but also his contemporaries who built in the Prairie Style in the greater Chicagoland area. Includes buildings by Tallmadge & Watson, E. E. Roberts, William E. Drummond, and many others.

$16.95
ISBN-13: 9780299222147
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Published: University of Wisconsin Press, 11/2008
Supplying both a gripping mystery story and an authoritative portrait of fabled architect Frank Lloyd Wright, Drennan casts new light on the 1914 massacre of seven adults and children at Wright's landmark residence, Taliesin.

$15.16
ISBN-13: 9780060988661
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Published: Harper Perennial, 10/2007
More than a decade in the making, this volume examines the dark story of architect Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship--the sexually fervid and deeply peculiar academy/commune where Wright did some of his greatest work and yet damaged scores of lives along the way.

The House Beautiful (Hardcover)

$18.95
ISBN-13: 9780764937644
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Published: Pomegranate Communications, 9/2006
In this book, Wright's designs and several of his photographs accompany the text by Unitarian minister William C. Gannett, which explores the interdependence of the various elements that must come together to create "the house beautiful"--subject matter ideally suited to Wright's artistic philosophy.

$159.95
ISBN-13: 9783822857700
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Published: Taschen, 7/2009
Literally the biggest Frank Lloyd Wright book. This enormous book, when open, will likely cover most of your coffee table. It details his complete buildings designed between 1943 and 1959. The first of a prospective 3-volume series (Yes, they started with Volume 3 and intend to work backwards from there.)

$59.95
ISBN-13: 9780847830930
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Published: Rizzoli, 10/2008
Accompanying Rizzoli's best-selling Frank Lloyd Wright: The Houses, this exceptional publication features Wright's major projects and programs, including such masterpieces as the Guggenheim Museum, Marin County Civic Center, Unity Temple, Johnson Wax, Taliesin, and Taliesin West, to name only a few. Also included is stunning archival imagery of the great demolished buildings, such as the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, as well as inspiring visions of the great unbuilt work drawn by Wright, including The Baghdad Opera House and The Mile High "Illinois," among others.

Loving Frank (Paperback)

$11.99
ISBN-13: 9780345495006
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Published: Ballantine Books, 4/2008
In this bestselling novel, fact and fiction blend together brilliantly. While scholars have largely relegated Mamah Cheney to a footnote in the life of America's greatest architect, author Nancy Horan gives full weight to their dramatic love story and illuminates Cheney's profound influence on Wright.

$11.20
ISBN-13: 9780143114291
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Published: Penguin Books, 4/2008
Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable's biography looks at the architect and the man, from his tumultuous personal life to his long career as a master builder. Along the way she introduces Wright's masterpieces, from the tranquil Fallingwater to Taliesin, rebuilt after tragedy and murder--not only exploring the mind of the man who drew the blueprints but also delving into the very heart of the medium, which he changed forever.

$27.95
ISBN-13: 9780764945960
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Published: Pomegranate Communications, 10/2008
The majestic Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, the stunning Midway Gardens in Chicago, and the innovative Larkin Administration Building in Buffalo, New York, are among the beautiful Frank Lloyd Wright masterpieces lost to us forever. With color photos, architectural illustrations, and black-and-white period photographs, Published on the occasion of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum's fiftieth anniversary, and in association with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, this fascinating, beautifully designed volume is the first to fully explore the process behind one of the greatest, most iconic Modern buildings in America-and the world. The Guggenheim: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Making of the Modern Museum examines the history, design and construction of Wright's masterwork with preliminary drawings, models and photographs, as well as three major essays that consider the building in three important contexts.Lind gives these glorious works the attention they deserve.

$47.95
ISBN-13: 9780847831746
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Published: Rizzoli, 4/2009
Frank Lloyd Wright's wife, Olgivanna, is famously quoted as saying that "My husband seemed to thrive on hardships." From the years 1920 to 1932 Wright's fortunes were at a low ebb; he was plagued by financial, personal, and professional setbacks, but saw the time as one of challenges instead of one of defeat. Unable to find patrons, his imagination led to visionary, often splendid, architectural conceptions that laid the groundwork for the revolutionary architecture he would build in the decades to follow. During this period he designed almost fifty projects, of which only a few were realized, but those few are seen today as among his most important creations.

$24.00
ISBN-13: 9780847832361
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Published: Rizzoli, 4/2009
Profiles over one hundred buildings of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, ranging from the Home and Studio built in 1889 to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum built in 1956.

$17.95
ISBN-13: 9780978927035
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Published: Top 5 Books, 12/2008
A well-researched study of Unity Temple and its significance to modern architecture.

$29.99
ISBN-13: 9780226776200
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Published: University Of Chicago Press, 8/2007
This updated third edition revisits each of Wright's existent structures, tracing the architect's development from his Prairie works, such as the Frederick Robie house in Chicago, to the last building constructed to his specifications, the magnificent Aime and Norman Lykes residence in California. Storrer provides full addresses, GPS coordinates, and maps of locations throughout the United States, England, and Japan, indicating the shortest route to each building--perfect for Wright aficionados on the go.

$67.99
ISBN-13: 9780847827367
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Published: Rizzoli, 11/2005
For the first time, all 289 extant houses designed by the master architect are shown here in exquisite color photographs. Includes floor plans and archival images, as well as text and essays by several leading Wright scholars.

$29.95
ISBN-13: 9780847828586
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Published: Rizzoli, 11/2006
The most comprehensive overview of Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie-style houses, including numerous Oak Park examples.

$18.70
ISBN-13: 9780226613253
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Published: Village Of Oak Park, Illinois, 10/2000
A convenient tour guide that covers not only Frank Lloyd Wright, but also puts him in a larger architectural context. Includes several walking tours.

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ISBN-13: 9780691133188
Availability: Out of Print
Published: Princeton University Press, 3/2008
This is the only book that gathers all of Wright's most significant essays, lectures, and articles on architecture, and Pfeiffer includes each piece in its entirety to present the architect's writings as he originally intended them. This volume is beautifully illustrated with original drawings and photographs, and is complemented by Pfeiffer's general introduction, which provides history and context.

$21.25
ISBN-13: 9780393732610
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 2/2009
Twenty-one carefully chosen selections from Wright's extensive literary output span the important period between 1900 and the late 1930s, when the architect exerted a powerful influence on the developing modern movement. A concise biography, explanatory head notes, and a short annotated bibliography make this an ideal introduction for students.

$26.96
ISBN-13: 9780691129372
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Published: Princeton University Press, 3/2008
This is a landmark text--the first book in which America's greatest architect put forth the principles of a fundamentally new, organic architecture that would reject the trappings of historical styles while avoiding the geometric abstraction of the machine aesthetic advocated by contemporary European modernists. One of the most important documents in the development of modern architecture and the career of Frank Lloyd Wright, "Modern Architecture" is a provocative and profound polemic against America's architectural eclecticism, commercial skyscrapers, and misguided urban planning.