Wrightscapes - Frank Lloyd Wrights LandscapeDesigns. Berdeana Aguar, Charles

Wrightscapes - Frank Lloyd Wrights LandscapeDesigns



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Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Language: English
Page: 396
ISBN: 0071377689, 9780071377683

From Library Journal

Could there be anything more to say about the 20th century's most written-about architect? Landscape architecture professor Charles Aguar (Univ. of Georgia) and wife Berdeana find a fresh perspective by examining Frank Lloyd Wright's work through the eyes of environmentally conscious landscape designers. Backed by a decade's fieldwork, interviews, and archival sleuthing, the authors offer highly informed critiques of 85 designs that span Wright's 70-year career. Familiar buildings are seen in an entirely new light as the authors scrutinize each structure's interrelationship with its grounds, plantings, and "hardscape" the terraces, walls, and planters Wright used to anchor his buildings to their settings. They emphasize Wright's prescient advocacy of sound environmental planning. Unfortunately, the Aguars' penchant for speculation sometimes leads to head-scratching conclusions Wright as feng-shui master? and the book's cramped typeface, eye-straining illustrations, and perfunctory index detract from a text that deserves much better presentation. However, by and large, this lucid, solidly researched analysis will open new avenues of appreciation and inquiry for Wright fans and scholars. Highly recommended for academic and large public libraries, and wherever there is an interest in green architecture and sustainable landscapes. David Soltesz, Cuyahoga Cty. P.L., Parma, OHCopyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review

...a masterful and exhaustive richly illustrated treatise...the Darwin Martin floriycle is discussed with insightful brilliance... -- The Catalog of Landscape Records in the United States Newsletter, Spring/Summer 2002...clearly delineates Wright's life...tackles each phase with...level of detail that is impressive...important...progressive and forward thinking -- The Georgia Landscape, July 2003...consistently sensitive analysis, skillfully applied ... balanced and fair assessment ... welcome addition to the vast ... literature on Wright. -- Chicago Tribune, Oct. 13, 2002...elegant and exhaustive accounting...well-illustrated text is organized chronologically...special value is the authors' refusal to deify their subject. -- Planning, August 2002...if only one more book about the world's most frequently published architect is allowed, perhaps this should be it. -- Landscape Architecture, Nov. 2002...present Wright as "essentially pioneering the new discipline of environmental design." An important book. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals. -- Choice, December 2002a look at the wide range of work Wright created...planned developments, site plans and the influences in his life. -- Herald & Review (Decatur, IL), HOME section, May 11, 2003definitive study...masterful...extremely informative...eminently readable...of particular interest...appendices containing lists of plant materials designated for...Wright projects. -- Bulletin: The Quarterly Newsletter of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy, Spring 2003the Aguars committed to writing the definitive work on Wright…in a way no other volume had. -- Gwinnett Daily News, July 20, 2002



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