Unity Temple: Oak Park, Illinois, 1905, by Frank Lloyd Wright (Architecture in Detail)

by Prof. Robert McCarter

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Unity Temple represents the high point of Frank Lloyd Wright's "Prairie" period, and the founding of a place of sanctuary for the Unitarian congregation - a branch of Protestantism founded by his own great-great grandfather in 1726. Located in Oak Park, Illinois, the temple is ordered on a rigorous system of proportion determined on both exterior and interior by the measurements of the central interior sanctuary space. This detailed account invites the viewer (as Wright's creation does itself) to see the act of building as sacred, and buildings as sacred places.
  • ISBN10 071483629X
  • ISBN13 9780714836294
  • Publish Date 24 April 1997
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 14 April 2016
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Phaidon Press Ltd
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 60
  • Language English