Frank Lloyd Wright in Arizona

by Cheek, Lawrence W.

• ISBN13: 9781887896825
• ISBN10: 1887896821
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-02-15
• Publisher: Rio Nuevo Pub

Summary

"Wright fell in love with the desert quickly and profoundly," writes Lawrence W. Cheek. "It was a vast, blank canvas ... it was an open-air warehouse of natural forms, colors, and textures that both delighted and inspired him." Frank Lloyd Wright first came to Arizona in 1928. In this spectacular desert landscape he built his winter headquarters, Taliesin West, and found a passion that drove him for the next 31 years of his life. In the first book to focus solely on Wright's work in Arizona, Lawrence W. Cheek explores the twelve breathtaking buildings that Wright contributed to the state. Cheek also delves into the audacious, mischievous, egocentric, and often outrageous life of Frank Lloyd Wright and examines today's Taliesin West, still a center of vigilant devotion to the man often called the greatest architect of the twentieth century. 50 color photos.

Table of Contents

The "Vast Battleground" of Arizona	p. 9
The "Spiritual Cathartic"	p. 23
An Architecture for Arizona	p. 37
The "Ever Advancing Human Threat"	p. 65
Arizona Buildings	p. 71
Other Buildings in the West	p. 71
Suggested Reading	p. 72
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