Frank Lloyd Wright: Mid-Century Modern is a comprehensive examination of an under-explored period in Wright's career,a time dating from roughly 1935 to 1958, during which this master architect was at his most daring and innovative.Providing an illuminating perspective on such extraordinary masterpieces as the Kaufmann House (Fallingwater) and Taliesin West, as well as inviting exploration of more than fifty other extraordinary houses and buildings--including the C. Leigh Stevens House (Auldbrass), the Mrs. Clinton Walker House, the Donald and Virginia Lovness House, as well as the Usonian Automatics, to name only a few--Frank Lloyd Wright. Mid-Century Modern will serve the reader as a frequently surprising trove of architectural riches.

The mid-twentieth century was one of the most productive and inventive periods in Frank Lloyd Wright's career, producing such masterworks as the Guggenheim Museum, Price Tower,Fallingwater, the Usonian Houses, and the Lovness House, as well as a vast array of innovative furniture and object design. With a wide variety of shapes and forms--ranging from honeycombs to spirals--this period defies simplistic definition.Simplicity, democratic designs, and organic forms characterize Mid-Century Modern, and, mentoring such mid-century talents as Richard Neutra and Rudolph Schindler among others, Wright was one of its most influential proponents. Frank Lloyd Wright: Mid-Century Modem is a comprehensive examination of an under-explored period in Wright's career, a time dating from roughly 1935 to 1958,during which this master architect was at his most daring and innovative.

Frank Lloyd Wright: Mid-Century Modern

By Alan Hess

Frank Lloyd Wright and World War II, 1939-45

By John Zukowsky

Exuberant Fifties: Wright and the Guggenheim

By Monica Ramirez-Montagut

Mid-Century Modern Houses

House List

Bibliography

Endnotes

Index

Mid-Century Houses

Liliane and Edgar J. Kaufmann House 1935

Herbert and Katherine Jacobs House I 1936

Herbert Johnson House 1937

Taliesin West 1938

C. Leigh Stevens House 1939

Stanley and Mildred Rosenbaum House 1939

Goetsch-Winckler House 1939

George Sturges House 1939

Clarence Sondern House 1939

Gregor and Elizabeth Affleck House 1940

Lowell and Agnes Walter House 1945

Sara and Melvyn Smith House 1946

Herman T. Mossberg House 1946

Mrs. Clinton Walker House 1948

Katherine and Maynard Buehler House 1948

J.Willis Hughes House 1949

Henry Neils House 1949

Anne and Eric Brown House 1949

Wilbur Pearce House 1950

Don and Mary Lou Schaberg House 1950

R, Bradford and Ina Harper House 1959

Robert and Gloria Berger House 1950

William and Mary Palmer House 1950

Kad Staley House 1950

Russell and Ruth Kraus House 1950

Roland and Ronny Reisley House 1951

Gabrielle and Charlcey Austin House 1951

Nathan and Jeanne Rubin House 1952

R.W. Lindholm House 1952

Jorgine Boomer House 1952

Andrew and Maude Cooke House 1953

Harold Price Jr. House 1953

WilliamThaxton House 1953

Gloria Bachman and Abraham Wilson House 1954

iaurice and Margaret Greenberg House 1954

Harold Price Sr. House 1954

Cedric and Patricia Boulter House 1954

GeraldTonkens House 1954

Elizabeth and WilliamTracy House 1954

John Rayward House 1955

Harriet and Randall Fawcett House 1955

H. And DorothyTurkel House 1955

Maximilian Hoffman House 1955

Donald and Virginia Lovness House 1955

Theodore and Bette Pappas House 1955

Llewellyn and Elizabeth Wright House 1956

Allen Friedman House 1956

Marshall Erdman Prefabricated Homes 1957-1961

Robert and iaryWalton House 1957

Paul and Helen Olfelt House 1958

George and Millie Ablin House 1958

Don Stromquist House 1958

Seth Condon Peterson Cottage 1958