FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT: THREE QUARTERS OF A CENTURY OF DRAWINGS
Alberto Izzo and Camillo Gubitosi [Editors]
Alberto Izzo and Camillo Gubitosi [Editors]: FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT: THREE QUARTERS OF A CENTURY OF DRAWINGS. New York: Horizon Press, 1981. First English-language edition of the catalogue FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT DRAWINGS 1887-1959 originally published by Centro Di, in Florence, 1977. Square quarto. Black cloth titled in white. Photo illustrated dust jacket. Unpaginated. 232 color and black and white illustrations. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print. Faint wear overall. A nearly fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket.
"In our country the chief obstacle to any real solution of the moderate-cost house-problem is the fact that our people do not really know how to live, imagining their idiosyncrasies to be their "tastes," their prejudices to be their predilections and their ignorance to be virtue where any beauty of living is concerned." -- Frank Lloyd Wright
8.75 x 9.5 hardcover catalog with 232 black and white and color reproductions of Frank Lloyd Wrights' architectural renderings and drawings of designs for the ideal city, houses, apartment and industrial buildings, factories, skyscrapers, churches, hotels, museums theatres, etc. This book catalogues the range of Wright's work and the 'miracle' materials that he used to create innovative textures, shapes and spaces.
A marvelous survey of Wright's brilliant work as an architect and as a draftsman. The drawings range from 1887-1959. Text includes "The Architectural Innovations of Frank Lloyd Wright," and a chronology of the life work of FLLW; & bibliographies of publications in periodicals & books by & about FLLW. Catalogue of an exhibition organized by the University of Naples Institute of Architectural Analysis in collaboration with the Frank Lloyd Wright Memorial Foundation, Taliesin, Ariz.
"I am certain that any approach to the new house . . . must be a pattern for more simple and, at the same time, more gracious living: new but suitable to living conditions as they might so well be in the country we live in today. This needed house of moderate cost must sometime face reality. Why not now? The houses built by the million . . . do no such thing. To me such houses are "escapist" houses, putting on some style or other, really having none. Style is important. A style is not. There is all the difference when we work with style and not for a style." -- Frank Lloyd Wright