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Title: Lloyd Wright by Alan Weintraub ISBN: 0-8109-3996-7 Publisher: Harry N Abrams Pub. Date: 30 September, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $75.00

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Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: A beautiful testement to the neglected work of a master.
Comment: Lloyd Wright's work is brilliant, agitated and theatrical. Many people mistake his buildings for those of his father, but FLW could never have created the marvelous and fanciful designs that came from the hand of his son. FLW was a domineering genius, and I suppose Lloyd went a little overboard in trying to make his own mark; perhaps without his father's vision, but with a sure sense of drama and glamour -- Lloyd's buildings always impress. The post-FLW architects of Taliesin have never been able to come close to the brilliance of their founder, but Lloyd Wright was able to use his father's ideals and still make his own statement. This book surveys his most important creations and contains many beautiful, contemporary photographs. If something is missing, it's more photos of the original interiors -- but perhaps these pictures no longer exist. An excellent and worthy tribute to a long-neglected master.

Rating: 4
Summary: Finally...
Comment: I've long marveled at Lloyd Wright's Southern California residences and wondered when a book like this might appear. His buildings are so sensual, complex and full of surprises that any large-format photo collection couldn't help but be magnificently beautiful. And this one certainly is. My only diappointments with the book came in regard to the paucity of floorplans and the many extant buildings which receive only a token mention and a tiny photo in the appendix.

Rating: 5
Summary: He has his father's genes.
Comment: The photos of the Wayfarer's chapel in Palos Verdes, CA is worth half the price of the book. I know it had a profound influence on an architect friend, Lee A. Ward A.I.A. in Napa, on his way to Taliasen West.