Gardens of Frank Lloyd Wright, The

The product of lengthy visits to properties associated with Wright, and extensive interviews with fellow survivors and students, this is the first full-color book to focus on four m is Wright's famous residential landscapes – his first home and studio in Oak Park, Illinois, and his magn fica 3,000-acre summer Taliesin House, Wisconsin, and its 600-acre winter home in Taliesin West, Arizona, and the Cascade, Pennsylvania, commission that made it world-famous. This book also explores Wright's source of inspiration in Japanese and Mayan landscapes and his appreciation of the stone circles of meetings and naturalistic meadow plantations of the great landscape architect Jens Jensen. The last two chapters offer planting plans for a meadow style and a desert-style garden inspired by Wright's p designs.160:. Fot. cabbage. 30 x 25 cm, Peach cover