I bought this book from Amazon.com based on the Star rating. I did not know if it was really valid. It is! This book about Frank Lloyd Wrights designs give a conceptual overview to the evolution of his style. It is excellent for the novice, non architect (which I am). I have been able to visit three of his homes based on the directory in the back. It has also opened up other venues to help me arrive at a FLW inspired house that I am about to build. It is worth the cost if you are looking for the best single source of his work that I have been able to locate outside of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
This is an expensive book but you need only buy it once and you will have readable plans and details of more than 470 Wright buildings. I love his work and have several books about the great man but I find that plans in other books are sometimes unreadable because of the reduction to fit on the page. William Storrer has redrawn them all and taken nearly all the black and white photos. These are to Wrights specification: exterior shots to be in a natural context and include foliage, interiors should be taken with natural light and from a seated position and as Storrer says, this last condition excludes most contemporary color photography of his work. Also included is a ZIP code index of the buildings if you want to visit and see the outside, lucky Illinois and Wisconsin have the most. Brillliant though this book is I really wanted to see Wrights work in color and I can recommend The Vision of Frank Lloyd Wright by Thomas A Heinz, an inexpensive 448 page book with a color photo of every building. Both authors are experts on Wright and if you have these two books (and a table to support their weight) you will hardly need to buy any other books on Americas greatest architect, then again I liked Doreen Ehrlichs Frank Lloyd Wright Glass and Carla Linds The Wright Style: the interiors of Frank Lloyd Wright and......!
This book is indispensable for anyone serious about Wright or american or modern architecture. It contains detailed plans of every known work, and insightful commentary. If one could purchase only one book about Wright, to understand both the scope and detail of his whole work, this would be it.
