Frank Lloyd Wright's Monona Terrace: The Enduring Power of a Civic Vision

Hardcover, 324 pages, ENG, 290 x 225 x 30 mm, dustjacket, black linen with white imprint, illustrated in colour / b/w. ISBN 9780299155001. Frank Lloyd Wright was a great originator and a highly productive architect. He designed some 800 buildings, of which 380 were actually built. UNESCO designated eight of them?including Fallingwater, the Guggenheim Museum, and Unity Temple?as World Heritage sites in 2019./////Opened in the summer of 1997 as a convention and community center, Monona Terrace was first conceived by Wright in 1938 and resulted in ten designs, thousands of drawings, five local referenda, ten lawsuits, and several acts of the state legislature. Mollenhoff and Hamilton provide the definitive history of the building's design, the tempestuous relationship of Wright to his hometown of Madison, and the community leaders and activists who rallied to oppose or support the project. Drawing from the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives, thousands of newspaper accounts, extensive government records, and dozens of interviews, the book also features more than 200 illustrations in color and black and white, including many published here for the first time.