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Here
is a book Taliesin didn’t want published
Much as The Architecture of
Frank Lloyd Wright, a complete catalog will last long after I have died, and
the Frank Lloyd Wright Companion will
remain the one work with all of Wright’s built work with plans, the four books
here are equally important. The two written by me detail Wright from his birth
in Bear Run Wisconsin first to his creation of an American Architecture
(Prairie), then from 1910 to his discovering how to abstract from client and
site to create unique and affordable housing for a Democratic America. In
these, to make understanding plans easier for those not familiar with
architectural practices, all are
oriented with north at the top of the page. The third book is by me, but not
written,” authored is the better term, for a volume showing for the first time
ever the work of a great architect in plans all to the same scale, allowing a
comparison of works by size. Size matters.
The fourth book was written by Taliesin Fellow Milton Stricker,
but edited, formatted, and otherwise organized for publication by me. Milton
was told by Frank Lloyd Wright that an abstraction Milton had made of the MacDowell
mountains, the backdrop to Taliesin West, that his drawing was “the beginning
of architecture.” Here was the key to how Wright designed, a key the master would never publically
articulate. Wright’s approach was to send the apprentices out into the desert
where nature, the desert plants, would
show them designs if only they would look. Read this book and you have an
explanation of how such abstraction is done.
Wright even chose the unit module on which a client’s house would be
built by abstracting the client’s character.