Author: Alan Hess, Alan Weintraub

Publisher/Date: Rizzoli, 2006 ISBN 0847828581

Format/Condition: NEW hardcover book with dustjacket, 275 pages

Description: In his early 20th century residential commissions, Frank Lloyd Wright introduced a new version of the low-slung house that featured Asian flourishes, modern details, and open spaces—ultimately dubbed the Prairie house. This lush volume of inviting photos exemplify the Prairie house aesthetic with tours of 22 homes, including the Frank W. Thomas House, with its emphasis on broad horizontal lines that achieve a low effect despite its three stories; the Arthur Heurtley House, reined into a single rectangular form beneath a widespread roof; and the Edward Boynton House, whose broad winglike roofs jut towards the street yet are softened by planters built integrally to the architecture.

Includes a detailed and beautifully photographed tour of the following houses:
F.B. Henderson, Frank W. Thomas, William G. Fricke, Ward Willits, Susan Lawrence Dana, Arthur Heurtley, Darwin D. Martin, George Barton, Mamah Borthwick/Edwin H. Cheney, William A. Glasner, A.W. Gridley, Ferdinand and Emily Tomek, Avery and Queene Coonley, Frederick C. Robie, G.C. Stockman, Edward Boynton, Isabel Roberts, Emily and George Stewart, Edward and Florence Irving, Harry S. Adams, Ravine Bluffs Development, Taliesin I