Wright Sites: A Guide to Frank Lloyd Wright Public Places

by Joel Hoglund (Editor)

Frank Lloyd Wright's groundbreaking designs, innovative construction techniques, and inviting interiors continue to astound and inspire generations of architects and nonarchitects alike. The only comprehensive collection of Wright-designed buildings open to the public in the United States and Japan, Wright Sites has been revised and expanded to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the architect's birth in June 1867. The fourth edition of our best-selling guidebook contains twenty new sites, updated site descriptions and access information, and, for the first time, color photographs. It also includes itineraries for Wright road trips, a list of archives, and a selected bibliography.

The introduction, revised for this edition, is by Jack Quinan, a founding member of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy and author of Frank Lloyd Wright's Martin House.

Genres: Nonfiction, Architecture, Travel

160 pages, Paperback

Published May 2, 2017

Reviews

[Marissa Fields · Rating 5 out of 5]

Frank lloyd wright is awesome. Architecture is an underrated art. This book does a good job at summarizing his work and shows the uniqueness of a lot of his different places without sounding repetitive.

[Edward Fenner · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fine guidebook with some lovely photos, interesting histories, and helpful guidance (the latter if you were inclined to tour around and visit Wright's buildings). Guidebooks are short by design but I felt this one could have been twice as thick to provide more information and more photographs in particular. Some entries have only one photo which just isn't enough when presenting Wright's architecture.

[Coco Yuen · Rating 4 out of 5]

frank lloyd wright is awesome, and this book makes me want to become an architect on the side haha. i had only known his work before through pinterest lol, and it was great having actual images in the book for reference. i got to see his full range of work over the course of his life, which was also cool bc it taught me that i don’t have to like all of his work, and that sometimes the architecture may simply not be my taste bc wright designed it to be suitable for its specific context. this book is well organised, and the little travel days planned at the end is cute. i just wish the book went more into depth of architecture as a field, and how wright revolutionised and changed it. nonetheless, this is just a guide and it functions just well as that too.

[Kevin · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fantastic handbook for the publicly available Frank Lloyd Wright sites in the US and Japan. Especially interesting since we were able to visit and tour the Allen-Lamb House in Wichita, KS. The last of his Prairie Style, it consolidates many of the features he developed for other designs into what some call his pinnacle.

Most excellent.

[Jean Becker · Rating 5 out of 5]

A handy book to have on my travels to FLW sites, indeed. Although much has changed since published in 2017, the internet can update that. What doesn’t change are the abundant facts about each home/building/etc. and accompanying inspirational photos. Suggested itineraries included!

[brightredglow · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice, leisurely read. It is a guide so the information isn't meant to be in depth. It is just a few pages for each site.

[Lisa · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was fine, but what I was really looking for was a coffee table book with lots of photos of the homes not just a couple.

[Gayle · Rating 4 out of 5]

An interesting read with great pictures.

[Pat · Rating 5 out of 5]

Pictures and discussion of his many archectectural achievements.