Frank Lloyd Wright

Robert McCarter is a practicing architect and has been Ruth and Norman Moore Professor of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis since 2007.He has written for numerous international publications, and his books include: Louis I Kahn (2022/2005); Place Matters: The Architecture of W.G. Clark; Grafton Architects (2018); Marcel Breuer (2016); Steven Holl (2015); Alvar Aalto (2014); Carlo Scarpa (2013); and Understanding Architecture, coauthored with Juhani Pallasmaa (2012); and, all published by Phaidon Press.He has also published The Work of MacKayLyons Sweetapple Architects: Economy as Ethic (2017); The Space Within: Interior Experience as the Origin of Architecture (2016); Herman Hertzberger (2015); and Aldo van Eyck (2015), among other books.

Praise for the first edition:'Robert McCarter's volume is a masterly achievement.' – Times Literary Supplement'As a presentation of Wright's complete career, it is difficult to imagine McCarter's book being bettered.' – Architects Journal'A sumptuous and revealing book... An intensely human and at times poetically interpreted description of Wright's work and life.' – World Architecture