Frank Lloyd Wright: A Life in Eight Buildings

Louis Sullivan: the Chicago architect who trained Wright at Adler and Sullivan from 1888 to 1893, and whom Wright called lieber Meister for the rest of his life.

Unity Temple: Wright's first major public commission, poured in raw concrete out of budget necessity and, by his own account, the building where he first proved architecture could be sculpted space.

Robie House: the purest late expression of the Prairie School Wright founded, its long horizontal lines evoking the flat Midwestern landscape.

Taliesin: Wright's own Wisconsin estate, rebuilt three times across his life, including after the 1914 tragedy that killed his partner Mamah Borthwick and six others.

Fallingwater: a house built directly over a waterfall, widely called the best all-time work of American architecture, and a real lesson in the risk that comes with architectural ambition.

Taliesin West: Wright's winter desert counterpart near Scottsdale, built by hand each season with his Taliesin Fellowship apprentices.

Price Tower: one of only two Wright skyscrapers ever built, cantilevered entirely from a single core, the tree that escaped the crowded forest.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum: Wright's final major work, opened six months after his death, its spiral ramp still dividing opinion about whether it serves the art it was built to show.