Frank Lloyd Wright: A Life (Penguin Lives) [2008, PDF/EPUB, ENG]

by Ada Louise Huxtable

(136 ratings)
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Pulitzer Prize?winning critic Ada Louise Huxtable?s biography of America?s greatest architect

Renowned architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable's biography
Frank Lloyd Wright looks at the architect and the man, from his tumultuous personal life to his long career as a master builder. Along the way she introduces Wright's masterpieces, from the tranquil Fallingwater to Taliesin, rebuilt after tragedy and murder-not only exploring the mind of the man who drew the blueprints but also delving into the very heart of the medium, which he changed forever..
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  • Author : Ada Louise Huxtable
  • Publisher : Penguin Books; Illustrated edition
  • Published : 04-28-2008
  • Language : English
  • Pages : 272
  • ISBN-10 : 0143114298
  • ISBN-13 : 978-0143114291
  • Reader Reviews : 136 (4.2)

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Ada Louise Huxtable


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Robert N. Frank
'Frank Lloyd Wright: A Life' by Ada Louise Huxtable
Reviewed in the United States on 02-08-2013
I haven't finished this book yet, but, from what I've read till now, I'm fascinated. Frank Lloyd Wright was a real American original: a genius for sure, but an enormously controversial personality whom not everybody loved. Huxtable (who, regrettably, just died at the age of 92), was a wonderful architecture critic and she tells the story well. I'm fascinated by it because I want to understand, as best I can, what this brilliant but truly strange and often not very pleasant man was all about..
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tcboyd
A brilliant designer who probably didn't need to make himself larger ...
Reviewed in the United States on 03-07-2015
Architecture is a visual medium, and more pictures and plans would have been greatly appreciated. I read the book on a Kindle, and maybe the Kindle version doesn't include as many illustrations as the printed book, so my comments only apply to the Kindle version. Otherwise, it revealed Frank Lloyd Wright as a man who apparently drank his own cool-aid, and seemed to believe even his own rewriting of history. A brilliant designer who probably didn't need to make himself larger than life in order to be considered an icon in architecture..
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Pugwash
The Wright Stuff
Reviewed in the United States on 12-13-2014
Volumes have been written about Frank Lloyd Wright. His design still stands as a testament to his creative genius. A trip to Falling Water reveals a home built in 1935 that still radiates a transcendent and timeless modernity. The guides are breathless devotees of a spectral master.

Wright inspired feelings that crossed over a wide spectrum. Genius, charlatan, irascible eccentric, and more. Through his brilliance came many schemes with which to enrich himself. Often finding himself over budget on his projects, he could be obsequious to his clients in getting more money. He raised money later in life by taking the apprenticeship model to a new level, and charging young people to live communally with him as devotees, carrying out a wide array of projects.

Yet, his fusion of design utilizing nature and geometry brought him widespread fame, respect and awe. From his first projects in the early 1900's to gain nationwide attention, he became a lightning rod for his behavior, for the tragedies that befell him, and for his work. Today, his name inspires reverence and awe.

This brief bio attempts to dispel many of the misperceptions of this complicated and brilliant man. It may partially succeed in this endeavor, but it does shed light on some of his work, though not in excessive detail. For a reader that does not want to wade through a 500 page intensive manuscript of this historic figure, it is a good primer.
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