Table of Contents

7 | INTRODUCTION: AMERICA'S MASTER ARCHITECT 21 | FORMATIVE YEARS (1887-1899) 45 | PRAIRIE PERIOD (1900-1910) 99 | JAPAN AND CALIFORNIA (1911-1924) 139 | REGENERATION AND RENEWAL (1925-1936) 167 | USONIAN PERIOD (1937-1947) 219 | LATE WORKS (1948-1959) 257 | WRIGHT'S ART COLLECTION 274 | CHRONOLOGY 277 | SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE READING 281 | INDEX

About the Author

Kathryn Smith is the author of FLW's Taliesin and Taliesin West (Abrams, 1997) and FLW, Hollyhock House, and Olive Hill: Buildings and Projects for Aline Barnsdall (Rizzoli, 1992). Smith is former professor of architectural history at the Southern California Institute of Architecture.

Reviews

"Based on sound scholarship ... set[s] forth Wright's ideas about buildings, people, nature and their interaction... Warm, radiant pictures of his famous interiors will especially appeal to decorators... All the pictures are of the highest quality." --Roanoke Times, 10/18/98