This book offers a radically new interpretation of Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture—not through space, the obsession of the twentieth century, but through time. What does time mean in architecture?

For Wright, designing a building meant excavating the natural history of a place and letting it resonate through structure, texture, type, pattern, colour and form. His architecture holds the memory of geological and geographical time: every Wright house becomes a monument to the American landscape, uncovering the forms of American nature as raw materials for a truly ‘natural architecture.’

At a time when the relationship between nature and architecture has never felt more urgent, this richly illustrated book traces Wright’s principles through the dimension of time. Sturkenboom shows how the creative power of nature, as Wright understood it, holds answers to the most pressing environmental challenges we face today.