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

Wright Panorama amplifies the artistry of Frank
Lloyd Wright s architecture with expanse. In the
more than 140 Tom Schiff panoramic photographs
contained in Wright Panorama, Schiff reveals nearly
eighty extant buildings in Wright s oeuvre from a unique
perspective. Wright Panorama exhibits the great architect s
prolific, varied, and iconic body of work, pulling from it a
new shape and offering it renewed appeal.
Eric Lloyd Wright s compelling foreword to Wright
Panorama introduces Tom Schiff and four noteworthy Frank
Lloyd Wright scholars Cara Armstrong, Scott W. Perkins,
Margo Stipe, and Marta Wojcik. Since Wright s architecture
embraced his strong belief in and respect for Nature, these
scholars draw from this and contribute essays from a new
nature-centric perspective. They further our understanding
of the ways each of the natural elements earth, air, fire, and
water influences Wright s life and work. In addition, these
four essays utilize Schiff s images to more fully illustrate
the involvement of the natural elements on Wright s organic
architecture.
In his preface to Wright Panorama, Schiff conveys his
desire to acknowledge the true as well as extend our
framework of seeing, of vision. Schiff likes that his
panoramic photography is true to the landscape as
seen by the naked eye and is both expansive and
challenging. He sees the resulting panoramic image
in Wright Panorama as a unique way to see Frank Lloyd
Wright s interiors and exteriors, from all vantage points, in
one image.
Wright Panorama is a continual discovery: A new way
of viewing, a new way of discovering the architecture of
Frank Lloyd Wright.