Essay. -- Background. -- The Prairie houses. -- The space Within. -- Materials. -- Nature. -- The flow of work. -- Human values. -- Selected buildings and projects. -- Biography and executed work.

The American architect frank Lloyd Wright exerted a unique influence on the architecture of the first half of the century. This volume presents the whole range of his extraordinarily prolific output and shows clearly how his view of the world was a common factor in all of this varied architecture. From the early prairie houses to the Guggenheimm Museum in New York, frank Lloyd Wright saw man as the focal point of an architecture closely bound up with nature.