An American Architecture.

WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd. Edited by Edgar Kaufman.

Item Number: 128556

New York: Horizon Press Inc., 1955.

First edition of the principal overview of Wright’s work, with over 200 illustrations and photographs . Quarto, original cloth, illustrated with numerous photographs and line drawings illustrating Wright’s principles and techniques. Edited by Edgar Kaufmann. From the library of William Safire with his ownership signature to the front free endpaper. William Safire was an important American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He joined Nixon’s campaign for the 1960 Presidential race, and supported him again in 1968. After Nixon’s 1968 victory, Safire served as a speechwriter for him and Spiro Agnew. He authored several political columns in addition to his weekly column “On Language” in The New York Times Magazine from 1979 until the month of his death and authored two books on grammar and linguistics: The New Language of Politics (1968) and what Zimmer called Safire’s “magnum opus,” Safire’s Political Dictionary. Safire later served as a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board from 1995 to 2004 and in 2006 was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in good condition.

Frankl Lloyd Wright is universally regarded as the master builder that liberated architecture through his beautiful and original "organic" building designs - for dwellings and skyscrapers to industrial plants and housing projects. The principal overview of his work and philosophy, An American Architecture includes informal sketches of works from his early beginnings through the mid-20th century, original drawings never before published, plans of projects finished and not yet built, and photographs of building both in actual construction and completed. Edgar Kaufman, editor of the book, was an apprentice of Wright's and has since been the director of many important exhibitions of progressive design throughout the country.