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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Martin House Architecture as Portraiture


Free Download Jack Quinan, "Frank Lloyd Wright’s Martin House: Architecture as Portraiture"
English | 2004 | ISBN: 1568984197 | PDF | pages: 247| 285.0 mb
The Darwin D. Martin House in Buffalo, New York, is one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s earliest and most important masterpieces. Built in the prairie style, this large residential complex was designed, landscaped, and extensively furnished by the architect. The history of its creation, recorded in over 400 letters exchanged between Wright and Martin, forms a fascinating biography not only of the house but of its architect and client.

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Big and Little Poison Paul and Lloyd Waner, Baseball Brothers


Free Download Clifton Blue Parker, "Big and Little Poison: Paul and Lloyd Waner, Baseball Brothers"
English | 2002 | pages: 334 | ISBN: 0786414006 | EPUB | 2,6 mb
The Waner brothers, Paul and Lloyd-also known as "Big Poison" and "Little Poison"-played together for fourteen seasons in the same Pittsburgh outfield in the 1920s and 1930s. More than half a century after retiring, they still rank as the best-hitting brothers in major league history with a combined 5,611 hits-517 more than the three Alou brothers, 758 more than the three DiMaggio brothers, and 1,400 more than the five Delahanty brothers. And both Waners are in the Hall of Fame, the only playing brothers so honored.

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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Wisconsin How America’s Most Famous Architect Found Inspiration in His Home State


Free Download Frank Lloyd Wright’s Wisconsin: How America’s Most Famous Architect Found Inspiration in His Home State by Kristine Hansen
English | June 1st, 2023 | ISBN: 1493069144 | 176 pages | True EPUB | 73.52 MB
America’s most famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, was born in 1867 in the rolling hills of Richland Center, Wisconsin, to a family of Unitarians. Even with world-class commissions like New York City’s Guggenheim Museum, his organic architecture remains rooted in Wisconsin’s landscape, from affordable-housing prototypes in Milwaukee to his summer home and architecture school in rural Spring Green.

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