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AVERY ARCHITECTURAL & FINE ARTS LIBRARY
Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library’s department of Drawings & features drawings, photographs, films, and archival material documenting the life and career of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship. Frank Lloyd Wright Drawings & Archives is available via JSTOR.
Explore MoMA’s collection of Frank Llowd Wright’s objects, models, and exhibitions.
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ONLINE LIBRARIES AND DATABASES
THE WRIGHT LIBRARY
An extensive personal project, The Wright Library is a digital repository of Frank Lloyd Wright’s work, writing, and other related materials. It’s goal is is to collect, catalog, preserve and archive items that are published by and about Frank Lloyd Wright, as well as items that relate to Wright and his work.
THE WHIRLING ARROW
The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation’s blog – home to updates on the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, pieces of history, and closer looks into the lives of those celebrating Wright’s legacy.
PODCASTS AND VIDEOS
99% INVISIBLE PODCAST
Usonia • Episode 343
Usonia 1 • Episode 246
Usonia the Beautiful • Episode 247
Froebel’s Gift • Episode 349
YOUTUBE PLAYLIST
Playlist of available house tours and content about Frank Lloyd Wright.
BOOKS
In the William Wesley Peters Library at Taliesin West, there are 2200 books that feature Frank Lloyd Wright alone. In the sea of extensize published materials, we recommend a few book that give an overview of Wright’s portfolio of work. These sources are a great place begin explore Wright’s sites, drawings, objects, decorative designs, and philosophy.
THE DECORATIVE DESIGNS OF FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
David A. Hanks
From the Publisher. Determined to create a completely integrated environment, Wright designed not only buildings, but furnishings, fixtures, appliances, decorative items and more. Noted architectural and design authority David Hanks has provided an informative, insightful text, along with over 200 line drawings and photos.
THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL
William C. Gannett, Frank Lloyd Wright, Paul Kruty Art Wright’s intricate drawings surround an essay by William Gannett reflecting on the importance of tasteful design for a harmonious home, and further, how a harmonious home augments spiritual, intellectual, societal, and corporeal health.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Frank Lloyd Wright
Contains the master architect’s own account of his work, his philosophy, and his personal life, written with his signature wit and charm.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT DESIGNS
Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer
From the Publisher. Frank Lloyd Wright Designs is the most important and comprehensive book to be published on the drawings, designs, conceptual sketches, elevations, and plans of Wright, with particular emphasis on the development of certain important projects.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT DRAWINGS
Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer
From the Publisher. Discusses in depth the drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright, focusing on his earliest work at the turn of the century and his plans for public buildings in the 1950s.