The Hollyhock House (Los Angeles 1921) represents a departure in the work of Frank Lloyd Wright following his return from Japan and the completion of the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo. The house's massive, fortress-like forms with their sloping rendered walls, its inward-looking courts, ponds and flat roofs, suggest a strong break with the prairie house tradition and a new mood of robust architectural optimism. Extracts from Frank Lloyd Wright's own drawing record, newly drawn details and stunning new photography explain this masterpiece to the full.
'Architecture In Detail' is a superbly photographed and technically informative series of monographs which embraces a broad spectrum of internationally renowned buildings, drawn predominantly from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Each sixty-page volume contains a lucid text by a respected author; a sequence of large-format, high-quality colour and black and white photographs; a comprehensive set of technical drawings and working details; and a complete bibliography and chronology, thus making these books the definitive work on the subject. They are essential purchases for enthusiasts, practitioners and students alike.
