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A powerhouse of architectural biography by Pulitzer Prize winning critic Ada Louise Huxtable of America's greatest architect
Renowned architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable's biography Frank Lloyd Wright looks at the architect and the man, from his tumultuous personal life to his long career as a master builder. Along the way she introduces Wright's masterpieces, from the tranquil Fallingwater to Taliesin, rebuilt after tragedy and murder-not only exploring the mind of the man who drew the blueprints but also delving into the very heart of the medium, which he changed forever.
Renowned architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable's biography Frank Lloyd Wright looks at the architect and the man, from his tumultuous personal life to his long career as a master builder. Along the way she introduces Wright's masterpieces, from the tranquil Fallingwater to Taliesin, rebuilt after tragedy and murder-not only exploring the mind of the man who drew the blueprints but also delving into the very heart of the medium, which he changed forever.
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Ada Louise Huxtable (1921-2013) was a pioneering American architecture critic and writer on architecture. Huxtable established architecture and urban design journalism in North America and raised the public's awareness of the urban environment. She was the first full-time Architectural Critic at an American newspaper and inn 1970, she was awarded the first ever Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. A MacArthur fellow, she was the architecture critice for The New York Times from 1963 to 1982, and at The Wall Street Journal from 1997 to 2012.
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