Books & Reading
Books Sandwiched In
Loving Frank written by Nancy Horan
Reviewed by Nancy Strange
List compiled by Cheryl Baker
The architectural influence of Frank Lloyd Wright is so vast so that his personal life is often buried in the shadows of his designs: his houses, buildings, furniture and artwork.
To find out more about his personal and professional life, you may want to read one of the following books:
An Autobiography by Frank Lloyd Wright
His autobiography touches a tad on his personal life, but one sentence probably tells us more about Frank than any other in the book as he describes the tragedy that took place at Taliesin without naming Mrs. Mamah Cheney. “She for whom Taliesin had first taken form and her two children—gone.”
The Fellowship: The Untold Story of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship by Roger Friedland & Harold Zellman
Many of the Taliesin stories are tinged with an aura unlike any of his other houses. While this book mostly tells about his 3rd marriage, the mystique of Taliesin is always just below the surface.
Frank Lloyd Wright and the Art of Japan: The Architect’s Other Passion
by Julia Meech
Seeing Japanese architecture at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 starts Wright on a lifelong passion for Japanese art. He begins by buying Japanese prints, but later works in Japan on several large architectural projects.
Years With Frank Lloyd Wright: Apprentice to Genius by Edgar Tafel
Mr. Tafel shares what it was like to be an apprentice to Frank Lloyd Wright, during a decade when only two houses were designed and built (including one in Tulsa), and in later years when commissions were abundant.
About Wright: An Album of Recollections By Those Who Knew Frank
Compiled by Edgar Tafel, this book is a collection of anecdotes, interviews and personal correspondence from family, friends, and apprentices.
On DVD and Video:
Frank Lloyd Wright: A Ken Burns Production
No one is better than Ken Burns at producing interesting, well-balanced documentaries and this look at one of America’s most well known architects is no exception.
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