Reissued as a larger Taschen 25th anniversary edition with a different cover, they managed to trick me into a re-buy. I only wished somebody had found the time to actually, well, read the book since 1991. The text still features nonsense such as "masculine virility" and incomplete sentences. The parallel translations are mixed: The French translation is ok, the German one terrible (It's main fault is forcing the German text into the English sentence structure, an awkward procedure normally restricted to machine-translations. Strangely for a book written by an expert, the book lacks focus and direction. A novice is completely lost amid the chronological selection of works and their criteria of inclusion.

The only redeeming features are Wright's wonderful plans and photographs of his buildings, as well as the book's cheap price. ( )

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