Wright in Racine: The Architect’s Vision for One American City

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Frank Lloyd Wright devoted his revolutionary creativity to refining his famed Prairie style, especially in Racine, Wisconsin, referred to as “invention city” for all of the innovative products developed there. After 1900, Racine witnessed essentially the most significant stages of the architect’s career. Award-winning photojournalist Mark Hertzberg, Director of Photography for the Racine Journal Times, presents a well-researched compendium of warm, vigorous and revealing anecdotes from individuals who lived in Wright’s private homes and worked in his public buildings. Special attention is devoted to the SC Johnson Administration Building, the next Research Tower, and the Wingspread place of dwelling—Wright’s last and largest Prairie home and built in a unique pinwheel design. Other essential commissions discussed and photographed include the Hardy and the Keland houses, the unrealized Roy Petersen House, the YWCA, and the airport front room/café project. Hertzberg also briefly discusses the Monolith and the Johnson homes, Wright’s dreams for reasonably priced housing.

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