Frank Lloyd Wright

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The essential short life of America’s most famous — and most controversial — architect. Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) reinvented how we build and live, and in this sharp, concise biography, legendary critic Ada Louise Huxtable — the first writer to win a Pulitzer Prize for criticism — delivers him in all his genius and contradiction.

Huxtable traces the extraordinary career: the Prairie School houses of the early 1900s, the daring cantilevers of Fallingwater, the spiral of the Guggenheim Museum — the masterpieces that made “organic architecture” a household phrase. She also confronts the man behind the myth: the scandals, the ego, the clients driven to distraction, the relentless self-reinvention across seven decades.

Incisive, fair, and beautifully written, this is the one-sitting Wright — ideal for anyone who wants to understand the architect, the artist, and the legend together, from a critic who watched the myth being made.

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) was the most famous architect America has ever produced — and the most controversial. In Frank Lloyd Wright: A Life, legendary architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable, the first writer to win a Pulitzer Prize for criticism, delivers a sharp, concise, and deeply insightful biography of the genius who reinvented how we build and live.
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nHuxtable traces Wright’s extraordinary career from his Prairie School houses of the early 1900s through the daring cantilevers of Fallingwater and the spiral of the Guggenheim Museum — the masterpieces that made ‘organic architecture’ a household phrase. But she also confronts the man behind the myth: the scandals, the ego, the clients driven to distraction, and the relentless self-reinvention that kept him at the center of American culture for seven decades.
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nIncisive, fair, and beautifully written, this is the essential short life of Wright — ideal for anyone who wants to understand the architect, the artist, and the legend in one sitting.
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