Loading images...
Frank Lloyd Wright And San Francisco, by Paul V. Turner
€10.00

Quay Books
An unprecedented look at the architect’s storied relationship with San Francisco and the Bay Area.
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) often spent time in San Francisco, which he called “the most charming city in America.” Paul V. Turner looks at the architect’s complex and evolving relationship with the city, surveying the full body of Wright’s work in the Bay Area—roughly thirty projects, a third of which were built. Spanning 1900 to 1959, they include houses, a gift shop, a civic centre, a skyscraper, a church, an industrial building, a mortuary, and a bridge across the San Francisco Bay. The unbuilt structures are among Wright’s most innovative, and the diverse reasons for their failure counter long-held stereotypes about the architect.
Wright’s Bay Area projects are published together here for the first time, along with previously unpublished correspondence between Wright and his clients, as well as his Bay Area associate Aaron Green. Stories from San Francisco newspapers portray the media’s changing positions on Wright—from his early personal scandals to his later roles as an eccentric provocateur and celebrated creative genius. Beautifully illustrated with the architect’s original drawings and plans, Frank Lloyd Wright and San Francisco highlights aspects of the architect’s career that have never before been explored, inspiring a new understanding of Wright, his personal and client interactions, and his work.
More from Quay Books Browse Quay Books All
Great Lives: Keats, Marlborough, Queen Elizabeth, and Wren, by various authors
€6.00
No image
A. C. Gilbert's Heritage : A Collection of Rare American Flyer Articles and Photos
€9.00
€43.00
79% off
The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts : Murder and Memory in an American City, by Laura Tillman
€5.00
€11.00
54% off
In Search of Happiness, by Mike Annesley
€7.00
€18.00
61% off
Final Victory: FDR's Extraordinary World War II Presidential Campaign by Stanley Weintraub
€7.00
€26.00
73% off
A Widow's Courage, by Anna Jacobs
€4.00
€12.00
66% off
No Pasarán!: Writings from the Spanish Civil War, by Pete Ayrton
€8.00
€24.00
66% off
Historical Atlas of Dublin, by Richard Killeen
€8.00
€20.00
60% off