Every detail reinforces Wright’s vision of the exploded box: floors and ceiling expand outward independently, vertical elements extend this movement skyward, and windows meet at the corners of ...
Wright skillfully deployed ornament to reinforce the building’s geometries in every detail. The complex is also strikingly symmetrical, to a degree unmatched in Wright’s work. "If you see that ...
No fewer than 5,200 panes of glass cover almost half of the exterior ... associated with Wright’s notorious flat-roof designs, according to Meryle Secrest’s “Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography.” ...
Frank Lloyd Wright is regarded as one of the greatest architects of ... among the first to use reinforced concrete as a primary material. The exposed-concrete exterior creates a fortress-like ...
Image courtesy of The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives (The Museum of Modern Art | Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, New York) The home’s exterior limestone ...
Preservationists see the correction of building code violations at the Walser House as a critical first step toward the early ...
The 122-year-old Walser House will be repaired by the bank that holds the mortgage, and preservationists hope for a full ...
Frank Lloyd Wright’s distinctive brand of American architecture is peppered throughout the country. With more than 532 designs, the greatest concentration is in his home state of Wisconsin ...