Wright Panorama: Elements of Frank Lloyd Wright's Architecture in 360 Degrees

Wright Panorama amplifies the artistry of FrankLloyd Wright s architecture with expanse. In themore than 140 Tom Schiff panoramic photographscontained in Wright Panorama, Schiff reveals nearlyeighty extant buildings in Wright s oeuvre from a uniqueperspective. Wright Panorama exhibits the great architect sprolific, varied, and iconic body of work, pulling from it anew shape and offering it renewed appeal.Eric Lloyd Wright s compelling foreword to WrightPanorama introduces Tom Schiff and four noteworthy FrankLloyd Wright scholars Cara Armstrong, Scott W. Perkins,Margo Stipe, and Marta Wojcik. Since Wright s architectureembraced his strong belief in and respect for Nature, thesescholars draw from this and contribute essays from a newnature-centric perspective. They further our understandingof the ways each of the natural elements earth, air, fire, andwater influences Wright s life and work. In addition, thesefour essays utilize Schiff s images to more fully illustratethe involvement of the natural elements on Wright s organicarchitecture.In his preface to Wright Panorama, Schiff conveys hisdesire to acknowledge the true as well as extend ourframework of seeing, of vision. Schiff likes that hispanoramic photography is true to the landscape asseen by the naked eye and is both expansive and challenging. He sees the resulting panoramic imagein Wright Panorama as a unique way to see Frank LloydWright s interiors and exteriors, from all vantage points, inone image. Wright Panorama is a continual discovery: A new wayof viewing, a new way of discovering the architecture ofFrank Lloyd Wright.