DI Library: Style Guide: Modernism and the International Style: Frank Lloyd Wright

Wright's Own Words

In the Cause of Architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright by Frank Lloyd Wright; Frederick Gutheim (Editor)
Call Number: NA 737 .W7 D37 1975
Wright's historic essays for architectural record 1908-1952. With a symposium on Wright and architecture.
Modern Architecture: Being the Kahn Lectures for 1930 by Frank Lloyd Wright; Neil Levine (Introduction by)
Call Number: NA 737 .W7 W69 2008
Modern concepts concerning an organic architecture, from the work of Frank Lloyd Wright
The Natural House by Frank Lloyd Wright
Call Number: NA 737 .W7 W75 1954
Wright describes and details his ideals and ideas of houses for American families.

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Evolving Transcendentalism in Literature and Architecture: Frank Furness, Louis Sullivan, and Frank Lloyd Wright (ebook) by Naomi Tanabe Uechi
Demonstrates how American architects read literature and transformed abstract philosophy and literary form into physical substance. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Books and Magazines in the DI Library

Frank Lloyd Wright by Peter Gossel; Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (Editor)
Call Number: NA 737 .W7 P43 2003
Provides an overview of Wright's life and work.
Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward by Richard Cleary
Call Number: NA 2707 .W74 A4 2009
Explores Wright's life and work through authoritative writings, contemporary photography, archival photography, and detailed drawings.
Frank Lloyd Wright: The Masterworks by Bruce B. Pfeiffer; David Larkin (Editor)
Call Number: NA 737 .W7 F72 1993
Presents each building from conceptual sketch, plan, or drawing to finished masterwork, along with an in-depth essay detailing the development of the work.
Frank Lloyd Wright Designs: The Sketches, Plans and Drawings by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer
Call Number: NA 737 .W75 P44 2011
Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly by Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
Call Number: NA 737 .W7 F6785
Includes articles on Fallingwater, the Guggenheim Museum, organic architecture, and more.
Frank Lloyd Wright: Interiors and Furniture by Thomas A. Heinz
Call Number: NK 2439 .W7 H45 1994
Includes interiors and freestanding and built-in furniture, with photographs and drawings, and in-depth examinations of the Dana House, the Willits House, the Robie House and the Barnsdall House.

Websites

About Frank Lloyd Wright | Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
Authoritative information about Wright's life, work and design philosophy.