The Gardens of Frank Lloyd Wright

by Derek Fell, James Van Sweden (Foreword)

Best known for his strikingly modern structures, Frank Lloyd Wright was also a highly influential landscape designer. The Gardens of Frank Lloyd Wright is the first book in full color to focus on Wright’s four most famous residential his first home and studio in Oak Park, Illinois; his magnificent 3,000-acre summer home Taliesin, in Wisconsin; his 600-acre winter home Taliesin West, in Arizona; and Fallingwater, in Pennsylvania, the commission that made him world famous. The product of extended visits to properties associated with Wright, as well as extensive interviews with surviving colleagues and students, the book also explores the Japanese and Mayan landscapes that inspired Wright and his appreciation of the stone meeting circles and naturalistic prairie plantings of the great landscape architect Jens Jensen. Planting plans allow readers to create prairie- and desert-style gardens of their very own.

Genres: Gardening

160 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 2009

Reviews

[Luke · Rating 4 out of 5]

Speaking of Taliesen,, Wright’s summer home:

“Like the Japanese, [Wright] considered architecture and landscaping “frozen music”. He likened trees to beautiful buildings. ‘The secret of all styles of architecture was the same secret that gave character to trees,’ he wrote. Between the weeping willows, clumps of hardy swamp hibiscus bloom from Midsummer to autumn, their dinner plate size flowers in white, pink and red, and masses of thistles producing silky thistledown that drifts over the water like a summer snowstorm.”