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Frank Lloyd Wright Early Visions
Author: Nancy Frazier; Frank Lloyd Wright

Also subtitled: The Great Achievements of the Oak Park Years — Originally published as Ausgefuhrte Bauten in Germany in 1911, Frank Lloyd Wright: Early Visions reproduces the first book of photographs of Wright's architecture. Here are the works of what is called his Oak Park period, the years between 1893 and 1910 when Wright lived and worked in... more » Oak Park, Illinois. Included are more than thirty houses, as well as some public buildings.

In 1910, although Wright's practice was prospering in Illinois, his reputation was modest in the rest of the United States. As his earlier employer and mentor Louis Sullivan had learned, Americans were not ready to approve, let alone applaud, a native architecture not based on European models. In Europe, however, Sullivan and Wright were appreciated. In fact, Wright was so highly esteemed that publication of his works was being assembled in Germany.

Wright went to Berlin in order to oversee these major books being prepared by Ernst Wasmuth. In 1910 Wasmuth published the Ausgefuhrte Bauten und Entwurfe, a gorgeous portfolio containing one hundred plates in unbound sheets. These showed architectural plans as well as details of the ornaments on Wright's most important buildings to date. The following year Wasmuth brought out Frank Lloyd Wright: Ausgefuhrte Bauten, of which this book is a facsimile. Another version of the book, Frank Lloyd Wright: Chicago -- part of the series Sonderheft der Architektur des XX Jahrhunderts -- was also published by Wasmuth in 1911; the many additional photographs in that version have been reproduced in Early Visions as a supplement to the Ausgefuhrte Bauten. The original introduction by the British Arts and Crafts leader C. R. Ashbee was translated in German--and has been translated back into English for this edition.

Wright's genius was extraordinary and timeless, but his concepts were nevertheless firmly grounded in his era, particularly in the Arts and Crafts movement that flourished in America between 1875 and 1920. While Britain's John Ruskin and William Morris were known as forerunners of the movement, Frank Lloyd Wright would become its most renowned American star. The style of his architecture fit into what was called the Prairie School, and its strongest inspiration was the landscape of the Midwest, the long, horizontal horizon of the western plains. The Prairie style is seen in Wright's Unity Temple, in houses such as the Susan Lawrence Dana residence, and in the Frederick C. Robie residence, its most famous and mature expression. All of these buildings are thoroughly documented in this book.

Early Visions covers the idealistic, formative years of Frank Lloyd Wright's career. In many ways, they were the most important years. A number of the buildings reproduced have been demolished, but many others still stand. Indeed, today under the auspices of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Oak Park celebrates the Frank Lloyd Wright Prairie School of Architecture in a National Historic District, with twenty-five structures by Wright. It is the largest collection of his built designs in the world. His home and studio at 951 Chicago Avenue, where he lived and worked from 1889 to 1909. is open to the public, and tours of his other buildings may be arranged. In this new edition of the first book of Wright's architectural photographs, the spirit of these and other early works by the greatest of American architects remains bold and vital.

ISBN-13: 9780517147221
ISBN-10: 051714722X
Publication Date: 10/22/1995
Pages: 166
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Publisher: Gramercy
Book Type: Hardcover
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