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Author
Series
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
c2014.
Edition
Second edition, revised and expanded.
Lexile measure
1010L
Physical Desc
ix, 130 pages : illustrations ; 22 x 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An engaging, kid-friendly exploration of America's leading architect and his work This revised and updated edition of a longstanding classic, Frank Lloyd Wright for Kids, details the life, times, and work of the celebrated architect. Through simple, kid-friendly prose and anecdotes, author Kathleen Thorne-Thomsen describes the influences of Wright's Wisconsin childhood filled with nature, music, and close family ties; his struggles to find work as...
23) The architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright: understanding the concepts of parallel and perpendicular
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Lexile measure
1120L
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
This book provides students with a foundational and concise history of architecture and goes on to highlight the concepts of parallel and perpendicular through focusing on the style of Frank Lloyd Wright. Includes comparative models of architecture, a breakdown of Wright's houses with illustrative, geometrical line drawings, and a discussion of the famous Fallingwater house.
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
860L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 x 30 cm
Language
English
Description
Details the life of Frank Lloyd Wright, a young boy from the prairie, who introduced organic architecture, a style he created based on the relationship between buildings and the natural world.
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 153 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Frank Lloyd Wright was one of the greatest of all American architects. Over the course of his long career, Wright designed over 800 buildings. This program uses live cinematography, interviews, and rare archival footage to bring Wright's story to life.
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (50 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Archival films and photographs are used to describe Wright's childhood homes, as well as the homes of his early adult life in Illinois and later adult life in Wisconsin and Arizona. Discusses how his development as an architect is best seen in the three homes he built for himself. Includes commentary by experts.
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
159 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Wright-Sized Houses: Frank Lloyd Wright's Solutions for Making Small Houses Feel Big is the first book to feature the small houses of this world-renowned architect. It presents a wealth of ideas for how to build or redesign a home to make it feel far more spacious and restful than a larger house. Diane Maddex outlines dozens of Wright's principles for making less seem like more: roofs that epitomize the sense of shelter, windows that capture the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Curious Fox Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
40 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Today, Chicago, Illinois is a busy modern metropolis, but it wasn't always that way. Native Americans hunted elk and bison and made permanent paths through that land with their trade routes that eventually became an interstate highway system. Early immigrants built a town on the swampy mud, then raised or moved most of its buildings to install a sewer system. Find out how everyday people from all over the world helped build Chicago or as Carl Sandburg...
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 689 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Frank Lloyd Wright's Wisconsin estate, Taliesin, gave rise to a fascinating and provocative cultural experiment: the Taliesin Fellowship, an extraordinary architectural colony where Wright trained hundreds of devoted apprentices, while using them as the de facto architectural practice where all of his late masterpieces--Fallingwater, Johnson Wax, the Guggenheim Museum--were born. This book draws on hundreds interviews and countless documents from...
Author
Publisher
Globe Pequot
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xvi, 156 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A comprehensive guide to Wright's designs (and those of his protégés) that are open to the public-as well as insider historical information about sites now demolished, and those available for "drive-bys" only. For architecture or history fans looking for tours, overnight stays, or creative inspiration. Museum collections in Wisconsin that include Wright's furnishings and drawings are also included"--
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Mamah and her husband, Edwin, commission the renowned architect to design a new home for them. During the construction of the house, a powerful attraction developed between Mamah and Frank, and in time the lovers, each married with children, embarked on a course that would shock Chicago society and forever change their lives.
38) The Wright 3
Author
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
In the midst of a series of unexplained accidents and mysterious coincidences, sixth-graders Calder, Petra, and Tommy lead their classmates in an attempt to keep Frank Lloyd Wright's famous Robie House from being demolished.
39) Fallingwater
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
620L
Physical Desc
40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
This book guides readers through the process American architect Frank Lloyd Wright used in designing Fallingwater, a now-famous house in Mill Run, Pennsylvania, perched atop a waterfall. Full color.
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