Oftentimes I can be found in some bookstore or another picking my way through paperbacks, hardbacks, leather bound books and various other tomes. Due to my necessarily limited student income I don’t actually buy many but I have an Amazon wishlist which goes from here to Timbucktu.
This one is right at the top of my list: The Complete Frank Lloyd Wright
A while back I was sitting at home watching TV in the middle of the day. I think I was either on holidays or it was a weekend and I has having one of those particularly lazy days where you stay in your pyjamas and leave the couch only for food and toilet breaks. I was flicking channels and came across this documentary about Frank Lloyd Wright. I had seen pictures of some of his designs before but had never really paid that much attention to them.
One thing that attracts me to Wright’s design is their organic feeling. He placed a large emphasis on the interaction between a building and the site on which it was to be built. Landscape and setting played a huge part in his designs for example homes in heavily wooded regions would be built from wood while houses in the desert would have stone floors. and so on He was also cutting edge in that he was the first architect to supply custom-built furniture which was specifically designed to fit into the homes he had designed.
This is one of three volumes, this one covering the postwar years which have been called his “living architecture” period. Maybe this one can go on my birthday wishlist… At £120.00 (somewhere in the region of AUD$240.00) it is a little out of my price range. Oh well, a girl can wish right?
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