Frank Lloyd Wright

A comprehensive monograph on Frank Lloyd Wright, one of the great masters of modern architecture

This comprehensive monograph on the renowned twentieth-century architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, explores both his major architectural designs and many of his minor projects in detail. Robert McCarter analyses Wright’s work chronologically, exploring each building’s spatial experience, material and tectonic character, and relationship to the landscape.

Now in a fully revised and updated new edition, this definitive account of the life and work of the modern master features an extensive selection of archival drawings, specially commissioned photographs, redrawn plans, and detailed drawings, as well as a complete list of Wright’s buildings and projects compiled by the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives.

Review

Praise for the first edition:

'Robert McCarter's volume is a masterly achievement.' – Times Literary Supplement

'As a presentation of Wright's complete career, it is difficult to imagine McCarter's book being bettered.' – Architects Journal

'A sumptuous and revealing book... An intensely human and at times poetically interpreted description of Wright's work and life.' – World Architecture

About the Author

Robert McCarter is a practicing architect and has been Ruth and Norman Moore Professor of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis since 2007.

He has written for numerous international publications, and his books include: Louis I Kahn (2022/2005); Place Matters: The Architecture of W.G. Clark; Grafton Architects (2018); Marcel Breuer (2016); Steven Holl (2015); Alvar Aalto (2014); Carlo Scarpa (2013); and Understanding Architecture, coauthored with Juhani Pallasmaa (2012); and, all published by Phaidon Press.

He has also published The Work of MacKayLyons Sweetapple Architects: Economy as Ethic (2017); The Space Within: Interior Experience as the Origin of Architecture (2016); Herman Hertzberger (2015); and Aldo van Eyck (2015), among other books.