Frank Lloyd Wright: Unity Temple, Oak Park, Illinois, 1908, Barnsdall (Hollyhock) House, Los Angeles, 1920, Johnson Wax Administration Building and Research Tower, Racine 1936, 1944 (Architecture 3s)

This big book closely examines 3 of Wright's buildings, the Unity Temple, the Barnsdall (Hollyhock) House and the Johnson Wax Administration Building and Research Tower. There are about 5 floor plans for each building as well as 1 or 2 architectural drawings. Many of the photos are of details of each building and most are interior shots. There are a few full exterior shots of each building. There are about 60 pages with b & w photos. There's about 19 full page photos and about 7 of those are b & w. One color photo takes up 2 full facing pages. There's about 42 floorplans and about 60 architectural drawings. There's 2 pages of text only in the Introduction and about 52 pages with maybe half text, half color or b & w photos or floorplans or drawings. The text reads very much like a textbook. It's certainly uncommon to find so many floor plans and having the book focus on just three buildings gives the author a real opportunity to go into great detail on each. With everything combined that this book offers, you get a much better grasp of the many details of each building, far more than you can with a book that spends 1 to 4 or even 10 pages on a single building. The photos are quite nice, the floor plans are all very clear and the drawings are well defined, not too light. In fact, it appears that some of the naturally lighter drawings have been slightly darkened for better viewability. It's a good book to own, if you don't mind a lot of floor plans, drawings and some b & w photos.

the building is beautiful.the columns used in johnson's wax company is mushroom type which give it a nice look and quite stable.in this columns there is no need of beams since the flange is working as beam.it is aesthetically very good.