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An illustrated guide to Frank Lloyd Wright’s signature buildings

Curbed – Kesley Keith: “…His ingenious, enchanting buildings—over 500 actual buildings, and 500 more on top of those that he didn’t get a chance to construct in his 91 years on this planet. According to the catalog for MoMA’s whopper of a retrospective—timed to what would have been Wright’s 150th birthday—the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives alone holds “55,000 drawings, 125,000 photographs, 285 films, 300,000 sheets of correspondence, 2,700 manuscripts,” and more. Prolific, to say the least. Here, we winnowed down decades of work to pull out key buildings from the Frank Lloyd Wright oeuvre, from the domestically-scaled to the heavily ornamented, from the corporate behemoth to the soaring geometric forms of his later years. While any Wright archivist will tell you the architect himself eschewed “styles,” we’ve separated out his building chronology into a few key themes, depicting them with the help of illustrator Julia Rothman. [Download the poster-sized PDF version here.]

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