Wrightscapes : Frank Lloyd Wright's landscape designs /

• Main Author: Aguar, Charles E.
• Other Authors: Aguar, Berdeana
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York ; London : McGraw-Hill, �2002.
• Subjects: Wright, Frank Lloyd, > 1867-1959.; Wright, Lloyd, > 1890-1978.; Landscape design > United States.; Landscape architecture > United States.; ARCHITECTURE > Landscape.; GARDENING > Garden Design.; GARDENING > Landscape.; Landscape architecture.; Landscape design.; Tuinarchitectuur.; Landschapsarchitectuur.; United States.; Electronic books.

Here is the first book to examine the environmental landscape designs of Frank Lloyd Wright, probably the world's best known and most influential architect. Wrightscapes analyzes 85 of his works, and pays particular attention to site planning, landscape design, community scale, and regional pla...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: forces that shaped the young architect
• The emergent years: 1889-1897
• The Oak Park Studio years: 1897-1909
• The pivotal years: 1909-1915
• The California years: a search for new direction, 1916-1923
• The closing years of an era: 1923-1929
• The depression years, a time for reflection, 1929-1937
• The Taliesin Fellowship years: the era of Usonia: 1937-1959.