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American Master Architect

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) is unquestionably America's most celebrated architect. In fact, his career was so long and his accomplishments so varied it can be difficult still to grasp the full range of Wright's achievement. In this new study, Wright scholar Kathryn Smith does just that, exploring the grace and beauty found in all facets of Wright's work.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Modern Living

Featuring some of the most important architects of the region and generation - including Charles Eames, Craig Ellwood, A. Quincy Jones, Pierre Koenig, Richard Neutra, and Raphael Soriano-the program reflected the modernist goal of reinventing the house as a way of redefining living.

Modern Living

Enduring design

A text for architectural design studio courses, geared to inspire design ideas and to help students understand the energy consequence of design decisions. Concentrates on the analysis of sun, wind, and light resources of a particular site and climate.

Enduring Design

American Dream

American Dream documents the Houses at Sagaponac, a groundbreaking architecture project initiated by real estate developer Harry J. Brown. The project features homes designed by internationally recognized architects on a 10-acre site near the tip of Long Island.

American Dream: The Houses at Sagaponac

Louis I Kahn

Born in Estonia in 1901, Louis Isidore Kahn was to become one of the United States' most important architects of the post-war period, alongside the Modern masters Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier.

Louis I Kahn by by Robert McCarter

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Frank Lloyd Wright

This extraordinary book presents thirty-eight of the most renowned and significant buildings of America's premier architect Frank Lloyd Wright, from his early Prairie work in Oak Park, Illinois, in the 1890s to his daring creations of the 1940s and 1950s.

Frank Lloyd Wright: The Masterworks

Prefab Modern

For many, the idea of prefab may bring to mind trailers and other less desirable images of housing.

Prefab Modern by Jill Herbers

Small houses

Small houses are no longer synonymous with cheap houses and lack of privilege. Instead, they symbolize a range of culturally coded values: compactness, efficiency, discrimination, discreteness, minimalism.

Small Houses: Contemporary Residential Architecture

Julia Morgan

William Randolph Hearst's dazzling castle at San Simeon, California, is famous world round, yet only the aficionado can name Julia Morgan as the architect who built it.

Julia Morgan, Architect

Early Georgian Interiors

An authoritative and lavishly illustrated survey of the interiors of the grand houses of early eighteenth-century Britain. The interiors of the great country and town houses built in Britain in the eighteenth century were splendid creations, increasingly extravagant as fashions changed and aristocratic home owners attempted to outdo one another.

Early Georgian Interiors