An American Architecture : Frank Lloyd Wright / Edgar Kaufmann (ed.)

Editor's note / Edgar Kaufmann -- Architecture presents man : Prefatory -- What is architecture? -- Organic structure in nature -- Creativity -- The place of the machine in architecture -- Architecture is poetry -- Trust in life -- The importance of folk building -- Aphorisms on architecture -- The law of change -- From Generals to Particulars : Preliminary -- Integrity -- One thing instead of many things -- Earth-line and human scale - the sense of shelter -- The early days of Organic Architecture -- Obstacles and protests : The destruction of the box -- Exterior effects -- The architect's limitations -- The architect and "the system" -- Architect and client -- Two ways to see a house -- The sanitary slum -- The nature of materials : Preliminary -- Light -- Glass -- Brick -- Wood -- Concrete -- Sheet Metal -- Tall buildings -- Some case histories : The Larkin Building -- Unity temple -- Taliesin -- The Imperial Hotel -- Ocatillo -- San Marcos -- The Johnson Administration Building -- Wingspread -- The Small House -- The Zoned House -- The New Theatre -- Out of the ground into the light : Earth -- Wisconsin -- Prairie -- Desert -- Site -- Where principle is put to work there will always be style I : Continuity -- Interior space come throught -- Integral ornament -- Where principle is put to work there will always be style II : From structure comes form and style -- The characteristic in architecture -- The discipline of ideals -- Simplicity -- Principle at work in Japan -- The future of organic architecture : Forecast -- To the young man in architecture -- Source list and Acknowledgments.