Wright, Frank Lloyd — The Future of Architecture

New York, Horizon Press, 1953. Hardcover. Red and white cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine, red and white dust jacket with bw illustration on rear. 326 pages; illustrated in black-and-white. "..uniquely illustrated with his buildings and the gestures of his hands running parallel with the accompanying text, renders his concepts of an organic architecture vividly alive. Even for those who have had he experience of seeing or moving about in his buildings, Mr. Wright's creative imagination becomes manifest in a meaningful new way. The Future of Architecutre also brings together, for the first time within the covers of one volume, several rate works originally published in separate editions which have been unavailabe and intense demand for years: Modern Architecutre- The Princeton lectures, The Chicago Lectures, Some Aspects of the Past and Present of Architecture, and The Future of Architecture; all complete.. With this definitive volume the reader gets a new sense of architecture, not merely as ne phase of our life concerned whith shelter and comfort, but as a basic, organic necessity for a true democracy." Dust Jacket. The book is illustrated throughout with photos of Mr. Wright's epoch-making buildings. G-/VG-: The dust jacket is in poor condition. It has been torn in half along the back edge of the spine. Some of the spine is missing. Creases, stains, and folds to the dust jacket. The book is in good condition, with only light tanning to the pages and solid binding.