Main entry:

Einbinder, Harvey.

Title & Author:

An American genius : Frank Lloyd Wright / by Harvey Einbinder.

Publication:

New York : Philosophical Library, 1986.

Description:

xi, 435 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-427) and index.
The celebrated architect -- The beginning -- A divided home -- Chicago -- Louis Sullivan: Lieber Meister -- New vistas -- The Columbian Exposition -- Independent practice -- The Oak Park studio -- The prairie style -- A happy family -- The Larkin Building -- The Robie House -- Severing the home ties -- A romantic interlude -- The Wasmuth folio -- Taliesin: the lover's sanctuary -- Exposed by the press -- Working again -- Midway Gardens -- Tragedy strikes -- Trapped in the toils of love -- Exposed again -- The Imperial Hotel -- Pursuing Japanese prints -- The Imperial Hotel is completed -- The California years -- The earthquake -- The return to Taliesin -- Marital discord -- Miriam's revenge -- Miriam's vendetta -- Foiled by the Depression -- The architectural critic -- The Taliesin fellowship -- Designing houses again -- "Falling Water" -- The Johnson Administration Building -- Usonian homes -- The outspoken critic -- Taliesin West & the Obler House -- A wartime detour -- Modern houses are accepted -- Bold dreams, practical realities -- A heretic is honored -- Sixty years of living architecture -- The eloquent architect -- Building for God and man -- Immeshed in controversy -- More controversies -- The Guggenheim Museum -- Visionary architecture -- The closing scene -- Epilogue.

ISBN:

080222511X
9780802225115

Subject:

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 Psychology.
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 Psychologie.
Wright, Frank Lloyd 1867-1959
Wright, Frank Lloyd.
Architects United States Biography.
Architectes États-Unis Biographies.
Architects.
Psychology.
United States.

Form/genre:

Biography
Biographie.
Biographies.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 149390
Call No.: NA44.W949.9 E4 1986
Status: Available