Includes bibliographical references (p. 368-369) and index.

Abstract essence : drawing Wright from the obvious / Robert McCarter -- On Frank Lloyd Wright -- Academic tradition and the individual talent : similarity and difference in Wright's formation / Patrick Pinnell -- Evolution of the Prairie House / Werner Seligmann -- Chicago frame / Colin Rowe -- Architectural practice and social vision in Wright's early designs / Gwendolyn Wright -- Schooling the Prairie School : Wright's early style as a communicable system / David Van Zanten -- Form and philosophy : Froebel's kindergarten training and Wright's early work / Richard MacCormac -- Enspacement : the main sequence from 4 to 6 : analysis of Wright's steel cathedral project / Otto Antonio Graf -- The text-tile tectonic : the origin and evolution of Wright's woven architecture / Kenneth Frampton -- Warp and woof : a spatial analysis of Wright's Usonian houses / John Sergeant -- From the Prairie House to Fallingwater / Bernhard Hoesli -- A beat of the rhythmic clock of nature : Wright's waterfall buildings / Kathryn Smith -- Frank Lloyd Wright's diagonal planning revisted / Neil Levine -- Consecrated space : Wright's public buildings / Jonathan Lipman -- The integrated ideal : ordering principles in Wright's architecture / Robert McCarter -- By Frank Lloyd Wright -- In the cause of architecture / Frank Lloyd Wright -- The logic of the plan / Frank Lloyd Wright -- In the nature of materials / Frank Lloyd Wright.