Frank Lloyd Wright the Buildings - Hardcover

Frank Lloyd Wright: The Buildings, is a companion volume to Rizzoli's Frank Lloyd Wright: The Houses, features the great non-residential masterpieces of architecture by this American genius. Wright's major projects are here showcased, including such seminal works as the Guggenheim Museum in NewYork, Price Tower in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Marin County Civic Center in San Rafael, California, Unity Temple in Oak Park, Illinois, Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Florida, and TaliesinWest in Scottsdale, Arizona. Included also is stunning archival imagery of the great demolished buildings, such as the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo and Midway Gardens in Chicago, as well as inspiring visions conceived and drawn by Wright, among themThe Baghdad Opera House and The Mile High "Illinois," to name only a few. In Frank Lloyd Wright: The Buildings, extensive, all-new photography shows the buildings to an extent rarely seen (including such little-known gems as Beth Sholom Synagogue, Kalita Humphreys Theater, R.W. Lindholm Service Station, and many others) while rich text by author Alan Hess coupled with insightful essays byWright scholars David G. De Long and Kathryn Smith uncover the great innovative richness of the master architect's non-residential work, ultimately inviting a reevaluation of the architectural legacy of this almost mythical figure.

Alan Weintraub is the photographer for Rizzoli’s Frank Lloyd Wright: The Houses and Frank Lloyd Wright: Mid-Century Modern, among others. Alan Hess is a practicing architect and architecture critic for the San Jose Mercury News and author of Frank Lloyd Wright: The Houses and Frank Lloyd Wright: Mid-Century Modern, among others. Kathryn Smith is an architecture historian, preservation consultant, author, and lecturer. She is the author of Frank Lloyd Wright: Hollyhock House & Olive Hill. David G. De Long is professor emeritus of architecture in the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation at the University of Pennsylvania. He is co-author of Rizzoli’s Louis I. Kahn: In the Realm of Architecture and author of Auldbrass: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Southern Plantation.