Includes bibliographical references and index.

Abstract essence : drawing Wright from the obvious / Robert McCarter -- On Frank Lloyd Wright -- Academic tradition and the individual talent : similarity and difference in Wright's formation / Patrick Pinnell -- Evolution of the Prairie House / Werner Seligmann -- Chicago frame / Colin Rowe -- Architectural practice and social vision in Wright's early designs / Gwendolyn Wright -- Schooling the Prairie School : Wright's early style as a communicable system / David Van Zanten -- Form and philosophy : Froebel's kindergarten training and Wright's early work / Richard MacCormac -- Enspacement : the main sequence from 4 to 6 : analysis of Wright's steel cathedral project / Otto Antonio Graf -- The text-tile tectonic : the origin and evolution of Wright's woven architecture / Kenneth Frampton -- Warp and woof : a spatial analysis of Wright's Usonian houses / John Sergeant -- From the Prairie House to Fallingwater / Bernhard Hoesli -- A beat of the rhythmic clock of nature : Wright's waterfall buildings / Kathryn Smith -- Frank Lloyd Wright's diagonal planning revisted / Neil Levine -- Consecrated space : Wright's public buildings / Jonathan Lipman -- The integrated ideal : ordering principles in Wright's architecture / Robert McCarter -- By Frank Lloyd Wright -- In the cause of architecture / Frank Lloyd Wright -- The logic of the plan / Frank Lloyd Wright -- In the nature of materials / Frank Lloyd Wright.

This volume contains a collection of the key essays on and by Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959), one of the most influential and prolific architects of the 20th century. The individual essays focus on specific aspects of Wright's work, analyzing buildings and projects in order to explain the general principles of Wright's much-debated design methods. Included are previously published contributions from well-known historians and Wright scholars such as Kenneth Frampton, Colin Rowe, and Gwendolyn Wright, as well as newer commentary from the book's editor, Robert McCarter, an acknowledged Wright expert and author of Phaidon's Frank Lloyd Wright monograph. This volume brings together in one place decades of important scholarship on Wright and his architectural principles, making it an essential reader for students of architecture and enthusiasts of Wright's work.