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Title: The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion, Revised Edition
ISBN: 0226776212
Author:
William Allin Storrer
Publicate Date: 2006-11-01
Publish: 2006-11-01
List Price: $99.00
Average Customer Rating: 5.0
Format: Hardcover
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1: Book review
Excellent reference for all things Wright. Well organized and complete, contains many details about each home & traces Wright's evolution in his approach to design. Includes floor plans for many projects, as well as photographs for both existing & demolished works.
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2: An Important Book By a Highly Respected Wright Scholar
This is the finest compendium of all built Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings and is a top ten book for any Frank Lloyd Wright Enthusiast. This wonderful book documents all of standing buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright with excellent photographs, floor plans, and well written commentary. As a Frank Lloyd Wright homeowner and architect I enjoy looking up the less well known Wright buildings. The author, William Storer, is a highly respected Wright scholar. This book is highly recommended for its breadth, accuracy, and scholarship on the work of America's Greatest Architect.
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3: Flawed, but essential
I found a lot of errors in the floor plans in the first edition of this book (which may have been corrected this time around). Also, I really object to the use of contemporary photos of buildings which have been heavily altered over the years. Other than that, this book is highly recommended and, in fact, essential.
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4: A Must for those who are FLLW fans
If you want a complete overview and Wright reference, get this. I have a growing large FLLW library and this is a great compliment to every book I have.
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5: A Complete Record Of All FLW Works
Covering the almost 80-year career from his Unity Chapel in Wisconsin in 1886 to the Lykes house built in Phoenix in 1966, seven years after his death, this book contains floorplans and textual desciptions for all FLW-designed structures as well as black-and-white pictures for almost all of them, except for a small handful which have been demolished and for which no pictures exist.
The clear, readable floorplans which are given for every structure is possibly the biggest selling point of this book.
I should add that an excellent addition to this book is Thomas Heinz' _The Vision Of Frank Lloyd Wright_ which, although not as complete, features large color pictures of many of the buildings.
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