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Jan Adkins
其他書名
Frank Lloyd Wright, a Twentieth-century Life
出版
Viking
, 2007
主題
Juvenile Nonfiction / Architecture
Juvenile Nonfiction / Art / General
Juvenile Nonfiction / Biography & Autobiography / General
Juvenile Nonfiction / Biography & Autobiography / Art
Juvenile Nonfiction / People & Places / United States / African American & Black
ISBN
0670061387
9780670061389
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=KhTxnQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Frank Lloyd Wright was the most influential architect of the twentieth centuryaand a rogue genius whose life was a wild ride. Wright routinely ignored unpaid bills, clientsa wishes, budget constraints. Only his creative vision mattered to him. That vision transformed the way we live, sweeping aside the Victorian home and creating a uniquely American architecture exemplified by his Prairie Style houses. Wright built hotels, churches, and offices, too, incorporating endless innovations in techniques and materials. Ideas poured out of him throughout his long career; he called it ashaking the design out of my sleeve.a Jan Adkinsas fascinating biography of this compelling, infuriating, largerthan- life figure will change the way every reader looks at architecture.