About the Series: Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Architecture Series features: An introduction to the life and work of the architect. The major works in chronological order. Information about the clients, architectural preconditions as well as construction problems and resolutions. A list of all the selected works and a map indicating the locations of the best and most famous buildings. Approximately 120 illustrations (photographs. sketches, drafts and plans).
Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (1930–2017) became Frank Lloyd Wright’s
apprentice at the Taliesin Fellowship, until he attended the École
Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 1958, he returned to continue
his apprenticeship with Wright until his death in 1959. Pfeiffer
established the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives, where he
catalogued the collections of Wright’s drawings, manuscripts,
letters, and other documents. He was also the author of numerous
publications on Wright’s life and work.
Peter Gössel runs an agency for museum and exhibition design. He
has published TASCHEN monographs on Julius Shulman, R. M.
Schindler, John Lautner, and Richard Neutra, as well as several
titles in the Basic Architecture series.
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