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Lädt ... Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater: The House and Its History (1978)von Donald Hoffmann
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Fifteen years after Edgar Kaufmann Jr. announced his intent to donate the house to a conservancy and therefore make it accessible to the public, Dover released what is considered the house's definitive account. If I had to choose only one book to keep on Fallingwater (I've had three at some point in my life), it would be this one. The details of Hoffman's deeply researched book have yet to be matched, though I have not read Franklin Toker's "Fallingwater Rising" from 2003, which is also considered definitive. Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
A total revision of the standard document on Fallingwater, the boldest, most personal architectural statement of Wright's mature years. Updated with valuable new material from the recently opened Frank Lloyd Wright Archives, the book gives special emphasis to Fallingwater's architectural innovations. "Fascinating." -- The New York Times. 116 illustrations. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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This book was purchased at the gift shop, and covers how the seed was planted for Fallingwater and the trials and tribulations of it being built. It includes excerpts of letters between Wright and Kaufmann, among other correspondence between others concerning the build. Fallingwater was a challenge to build -- its design and locale specifically above water caused a lot of fits and spurts and occasional changes in plans and techniques in its development.
My only complaint about this volume is that the numerous pictures of Fallingwater before, during, and after are all in black and white (understandable for while it was being built, but would have been nice to have color pictures showing it is as it is today). But this quibble is actually what makes this book a reasonable price ($19.95) -- it's a Dover edition.
A very good book that provides a good feel of what it was like to build it, and to live in it once completed. It's easy to see why Fallingwater, and Wright himself, are iconic. ( )