Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Preface

1 Introduction: Frank Lloyd Wright, “sentimentalizing over the dead”

Part One: Louis H. Sullivan
2 “the plastic decorations are distinctly architectural in conception”
3 “that object he became”
4 “feminity”

Part Two: Frank Lloyd Wright
5 “no damned sentimentality either”
6 “Integral Ornament at Last”
7 “‘like a man’”

Part Three: Louis H. Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright
8 “that supreme erotic adventure of the mind”
9 Ornament “purely as such”
10 Epilogue: “when we are dead”

Bibliography
Index

Promotional Information

An architectural history of Louis H. Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright, exploring architecture, ornament, sexuality, gender, and philosophy

About the Author

Daniel Snyder is an independent scholar and Principal in Daniel E. Snyder Architect, P.C.

Reviews

My first thought was that it is impossible to say anything new about Sullivan and Wright. I was wrong: the book is original, creative and a pleasure to read. There is no doubt in my mind that it moves the conversation forward - on a number of major topics - in significant ways.
*Alice T. Friedman, Grace Slack McNeil Professor of American Art, Wellesley College, USA*

Snyder writes in such an illuminating, often moving way about, not just Sullivan and Wright, or ornament and architecture, but the human condition… A very personal, moving and illuminating book.
*Karsten Harries, Professor Emeritus, Yale University, USA*