Item #121898 Studies and Executed Buildings. Frank Lloyd WRIGHT.
Studies and Executed Buildings
Studies and Executed Buildings
Studies and Executed Buildings

Studies and Executed Buildings

New York, Rizzoli, 1998 (a reduced-format 'Reprint of the portfolio edition of 100 lithographs' first published in Berlin in 1910).

Oblong folio, 26 pages plus 100 pages of plans.

Papered boards very lightly bumped at the extremities; an excellent copy with the slightly creased dustwrapper lightly indented on the rear panel.

'In 1910-11 the distinguished German architectural publisher Ernst Wasmuth issued a pair of elegant portfolios covering the work of Frank Lloyd Wright to date. Among the most important architectural manifestoes of the twentieth century, the "Wasmuth folios" had enormous influence on the architects of the day, and have since become world famous ... The first of these folios, a selection of presentation and working drawings of both executed and unexecuted designs, and a catalogue raisonne, is now reprinted ... with Wright's own introduction and comments on each project. The buildings of these years were those of the Oak Park period, roughly 1893-1910, the years perhaps most crucial to Wright's development ... This edition contains a specially commissioned new preface by Wright scholar Anthony Alofsin, who discusses the recently discovered historic background of these folios, and Wright's intention to proffer them as a primer for a new democratic American architecture' (dustwrapper blurb).

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