Product Description

Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward features a lifetime of achievement by this titan of American architecture through newly commissioned contemporary photography, archival photography, and wonderfully detailed drawings of more than 200 projects, including such masterworks as the S. C. Johnson & Sons Administration Building in Wisconsin, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, and Taliesin West, Wright’s desert home in Arizona, as well as less-known projects designed for Baghdad, Iraq, and beyond. The book is richly accompanied by authoritative text from some of the most important Frank Lloyd Wright scholars and writers at work today, and presents a timely reevaluation of the work and life of Frank Lloyd Wright within the context of social spaces, in the spirit of the exhibition.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #247407 in Books
• Published on: 2009-05-12
• Released on: 2009-05-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 360 pages

Review
A major publication documenting the landmark exhibition Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward, commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Frank Lloyd Wright.

About the Author
Richard Cleary is a professor and the Page Southerland Page Fellow in Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin. Neil Levine is the Emmet Blakeney Gleason Professor of the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. Mina Marefat is an architectural historian, urban designer, registered architect, and principal at Design Research in Washington, DC. Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer is director of archives at the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Taliesin West. Joseph M. Siry is professor of art history at Wesleyan University. Margo Stipe is curator and registrar of collections at the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives, Taliesin West.

Customer Reviews

Spectacular Overview of Wright's Major Projects (and many minor ones)
2009 marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Frank Lloyd Wright and the 50th anniversary of the Guggenheim Museum in New York City (Wright died six months before the opening in 1959.) To celebrate both, the Guggenheim is doing a major retrospective on Wright's work, from privately residences, civic and government buildings, religious and performance spaces, and even urban mega-structures that were never built. The eponymous titled //Frank Lloyd Wright From Within Outward// is the companion volume to the exhibit, featuring current and contemporary photographs of his work, hundreds of drawings and commentary from Wright scholars on about 60 of Wright's projects. Projects range from the Unity Temple (Oak Park, Illinois, 1905) to the hosting Guggenheim. //From Within Outward// is an excellent overview of Wright's design genius, his attention to detail and scope of interests.

While probably not as good as going to the exhibit (May 15-August 23, 2009), the book will be a highlight of your coffee table or bookshelf for years to come.

Great collection of his Frank Lloyd Wright's work
I'm a big fan of Frank Lloyd Wright's work and this is a great compilation of his drawings and philosophy. If you've seen his exhibit displayed at the Guggenheim, many of those works are captured in this book. It goes into detail on his concepts and buildings he's built during his lifetime.

Wright and the Guggenhiem
If you were lucky enough to see the Frank Lloyd Wright show at the Guggenhiem Museum in New York, you would know what to expect in this tome. The show picked a few of his projects, built and unbuilt, and did an excellent job of research on those buildings and showed comparisons with others of his work. This book is not for the casual Wright devotee but one who wants to get some depth in their understanding of his work.