Frank Lloyd Wright: References & Edit History
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Among thousands of books on Wright are a number of picture books and a number of works on specific buildings and styles. Robert L. Sweeney, Frank Lloyd Wright: An Annotated Bibliography (1978); and Donald Langmead, Frank Lloyd Wright: A Bio-Bibliography (2003), contain information on thousands of books, periodical articles, reviews, catalogs, and other items by and about Wright. Reliable biographies include Robert C. Twombly, Frank Lloyd Wright: His Life and His Architecture (1979); Brendan Gill, Many Masks: A Life of Frank Lloyd Wright (1987, reissued 1998); Meryle Secrest, Frank Lloyd Wright (1992, reissued 1998); Kathryn Smith, Frank Lloyd Wright: America’s Master Architect (1998); and Ada Louise Huxtable, Frank Lloyd Wright (2004). A classic study of Wright’s work is Henry Russell Hitchcock, In the Nature of Materials, 1887–1941: The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright (1942, reprinted 1975). Other useful books on Wright’s work include Grant Hildebrand, The Wright Space: Pattern and Meaning in Frank Lloyd Wright’s Houses (1991); David Larkin and Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (eds.), Frank Lloyd Wright: The Masterworks (1993); Neil Levine, The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright (1996); and Gail Satier, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Living Space: Architecture’s Fourth Dimension (1999). Vincent Scully, Frank Lloyd Wright (1960); Arthur Drexler, The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright (1962); Olgivanna Lloyd Wright, Frank Lloyd Wright: His Life, His Work, His Words (1966), containing a full but occasionally inaccurate listing of Wright’s buildings after 1941; Thomas A. Heinz, Frank Lloyd Wright (1982, reissued 1992); Patrick J. Meehan (ed.), The Master Architect: Conversations with Frank Lloyd Wright (1984); Carol R. Bolon, Robert S. Nelson, and Linda Seidel (eds.), The Nature of Frank Lloyd Wright (1988); Terence Riley and Peter Reed (eds.), Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect (1994); Arlene Sanderson (ed.), Wright Sites: A Guide to Frank Lloyd Wright Public Places, rev. 2nd ed. (1995); Robert McCarter, Frank Lloyd Wright (1997); and William Allin Storrer, The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion (1993), and The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright: A Complete Catalog (2001), are also valuable studies.
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Edgar Kaufmann
Adjunct Professor of the History of Architecture, Columbia University. Director, Department of Industrial Design, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, 1946–50.
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Article History
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| Add new Web site: PBS - Frank Lloyd Wright. | Jul 18, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Jun 04, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Apr 05, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: ABC listen - Overnights - The open plan life of visionary architect Frank Lloyd Wright. | Mar 30, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Phi Delta Theta - Frank Lloyd Wright. | Feb 19, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC - Frank Lloyd Wright: Effect of architect's Welsh heritage. | Jan 06, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Official Site of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. | Nov 14, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy - Frank Lloyd Wright. | Oct 03, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Official Site of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. | Jul 11, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Feb 12, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Official Site of Frank Lloyd Wright Trust. | Feb 04, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: UNESCO World Heritage Convention - The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright. | Jul 23, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Apr 16, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Geographic - Why Frank Lloyd Wright�s playful architecture fuels creativity. | Dec 29, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Art in Context - Frank Lloyd Wright - Who was Frank Lloyd Wright, the Architect? | Aug 08, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: 20th Century Architecture - Frank Lloyd Wright. | May 08, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Art Encyclopedia - Frank Lloyd Wright. | Sep 06, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: Famous Architects - Frank Lloyd Wright. | Mar 14, 2022 | ||
| Media added. | Dec 17, 2020 | ||
| Noted that UNESCO designated eight of his buildings as World Heritage sites. | Jul 18, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Art Story - Biography of Frank Lloyd Wright. | Jan 15, 2019 | ||
| Noted that there is uncertainty whether Wright was given the middle name Lincoln at birth and that he later adopted the middle name Lloyd. | Apr 04, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: Fallingwater. | Aug 11, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: Victoria and Albert Museum - Frank Lloyd Wright. | May 26, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: America's Story from America's Library - Biography of Frank Lloyd Wright. | May 26, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: CMGWorldwide - Biography of Frank Lloyd Wright. | Dec 16, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: Design Museum - Biography of Frank Lloyd Wright. | Dec 16, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Biography of Frank Lloyd Wright. | Dec 16, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: Spartacus Educational - Biography of Frank Lloyd Wright. | Sep 17, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: Official Site of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. | Sep 17, 2012 | ||
| Media added. | Sep 01, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: Dana-Thomas House - Biography of Frank Lloyd Wright. | Feb 03, 2009 | ||
| Media added. | Dec 31, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - Home and Garden - Biography of Frank Lloyd Wright. | Nov 26, 2008 | ||
| Media added. | Apr 21, 2008 | ||
| Media added. | Oct 11, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: Library of Congress - The Genius of Frank Lloyd Wright. | Oct 13, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: Library of Congress - Frank Lloyd Wright: Designs for an American Landscape, 1922-1932. | Sep 29, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: PBS Online - Frank Lloyd Wright. | Aug 28, 2006 | ||
| Article revised. | Apr 22, 2005 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | May 04, 1999 |