Unity Temple : Frank Lloyd Wright

Author(s)

• McCarter, Robert

Bibliographic Information

Unity Temple : Frank Lloyd Wright

Robert McCarter

（Architecture in detail）

Phaidon Press, 1997

Other Title

Unity Temple : Oak Park, Illinois, 1908 : architect: Frank Lloyd Wright

Note

Photography: Peter Cook

Drawings: Robert Blatter and Karen Sharp

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

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Details

• NCID: BA30375469
• ISBN:
  • 071483629X
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: 60 p.
• Size: 30 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : NA5235.O258
  • DC20 : 726/.5/092
  • DC21 : 726.5092
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Unity Temple (Oak Park, Ill.)
  • LCSH : Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 -- Criticism and interpretation
  • LCSH : Oak Park (Ill.) -- Buildings, structures, etc
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA12077571