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Fallingwater - A Frank Lloyd Wright Country House (Hardcover, New ed)
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Fallingwater - A Frank Lloyd Wright Country House (Hardcover, New ed)
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Fallingwater""is the most famous modern house in America. Indeed,
readers of the "Journal of the American Institute of Architects"
voted it the best American building of the last 125 years Annually,
more than 128,000 visitors seek out Fallingwater in its remote
mountain site in southwestern Pennsylvania. Considered Frank Lloyd
Wright's domestic masterpiece, the house is recognized worldwide as
the paradigm of organic architecture, where a building becomes an
integral part of its natural setting.
This charming and provocative book is the work of the man best
qualified to undertake it, who was both apprentice to Wright and
son of the man who commissioned the house. Edgar Kaufmann, Jr.,
closely followed the planning and construction of Fallingwater, and
lived in the house on weekends and vacations for twenty-seven
years-until, following the deaths of his parents, he gave the house
in 1963 to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy to hold for public
enjoyment and appreciation.
This is a personal, almost intimate record of one man's fifty-year
relationship to a work of genius that only gradually revealed its
complexities and originality. With full appreciation of the
intentions of both architect and client, Mr. Kaufmann described
this remarkable building in detail, telling of its extraordinary
virtues but not failing to reveal its faults. One section of the
book focuses on the realities of Fallingwater as architecture. A
famous building right from its beginnings (only partly because it
was Wright's first significant commission in more than a decade),
Fallingwater has accumulated considerable publicity and
analysis-much of it off the mark. Mr. Kaufmann outlined and dealt
with the common misunderstandings that have obscured the building's
true values and supplied accurate information and interpretations.
In another section Mr. Kaufmann provided an in-depth essay on the
subtleties of Fallingwater, the ideology underlying its esthetics.
A key element of this is the close interweaving of the house and
its rugged, challenging setting, which he explicated in fascinating
detail.
The author maintained throughout the direct approach of one who
knew and loved Fallingwater. As an apprentice and loyal admirer of
the architect, Mr. Kaufmann was well attuned to the architecture.
And as a retired professor of architectural history and frequent
lecturer and panelist, he had considerable experience in presenting
and interpreting Wright's ideas. Thoroughly versed in the books,
articles, drawings, and buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright, Mr.
Kaufmann was eminently situated to place Fallingwater in that
context. This unique record was presented in celebration of
Fallingwater's fiftieth anniversary.
Special features of this volume include: numerous never-before
published photographs of the house under construction, during its
entire history, and of the family in residence; a room-by-room
pictorial survey in full color taken especially for this volume;
isometric architectural perspectives that explain visually how the
house was constructed; and the first accurate, measured plans of
the house as built.
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