Introductory Page

Perhaps no architect has impacted American culture more profoundly
than Frank Lloyd Wright.  He created unusual homes, office spaces, city
plans, furniture, and art.  He wrote voluminously, and he helped to
redefine what it meant to build.  In this e-book, we interrogate the life
and ideas of Wright, arguing that his architecture can help us to understand
America today.  The structure of the book is derived from Wright's
thinking, and from the practice of designing buildings and furniture.  We
hope that you enjoy reading about this great thinker.  

Frank Lloyd Wright designed modular furniture as well as plans for
mass-produced Usonian homes.  We thus use this as a metaphor for the
chapters in our book, which can be reconfigured and read in any order.
 Just as the tables and seating Wright designed for homes could be
rearranged.  

Links to Writing by Each Student

• Feminist Architecture Module


• City Planning Module