| Preface and Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction | |
| Ch. I | Beginnings of the Prairie House | 1 |
| Ch. II | Abstraction and Analysis in the Architecture of the Oak Park Years | 23 |
| Ch. III | Voluntary Exile in Fiesole | 59 |
| Ch. IV | The Story of Taliesin | 75 |
| Ch. V | Building against Nature on the Pacific Rim | 113 |
| Ch. VI | From Los Angeles to Lake Tahoe and Death Valley | 149 |
| Ch. VII | Writing An Autobiography, Reading the Arizona Desert | 191 |
| Ch. VIII | The Temporal Dimension of Fallingwater | 217 |
| Ch. IX | The Traces of Prehistory at Taliesin West | 255 |
| Ch. X | The Guggenheim Museum's Logic of Inversion | 299 |
| Ch. XI | Signs of Identity in an Increasingly One-Dimensional World | 365 |
| Conclusion: Wright and His/story | 419 |
| Notes | 435 |
| Bibliographical Note | 505 |
| List of Illustrations | 507 |
| Index | 515 |
