Fallingwater

Description

Now available in a new format and at an approachable price point, Fallingwater presents the iconic and much-loved Wright masterpiece. Fallingwater is perfect for those who love Fallingwater, for architects, students, and anyone with an interest in interior design. A landmark book detailing the most important building by the most important architect of the 20th century.

Lynda Waggoner is vice president and director of Fallingwater and the author of Fallingwater: Frank Lloyd Wright's Romance with Nature, and other publications. Christopher Little is a widely published and much acclaimed photographer whose work was featured in the seminal volume Fallingwater (1986) by Edgar Kaufman. David G. De Long is Professor Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, author of numerous volumes on architecture, including Auldbrass: Frank Lloyd Wright's Southern Plantation. Rick Dark is a photographer and horticulturist and award winning author of such books as The American Woodland Garden. Justin Gunther is curator of Buildings and Collections at Fallingwater. Neil Levine is the Emmet Blakeney Gleason Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard and the author of The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright. John Reynolds is Associate Professor of Architecture at Miami University of Ohio. Robert Silman is president of Robert Silman Associates and a noted structural engineer who directed the strengthening of Fallingwater in 2002.

"Editor Lynda Waggoner and photographer Christopher Little have produced a remarkable tribute to one of Wright's signature works on the 75th anniversary of the 1936 groundbreaking (construction took three years)." ~Wall Street Journal "The book includes her introduction, as well as a great deal of new information, including correspondence between Wright and Kaufman never published before." ~Architects and Artisans "Both informative and aesthetically pleasing, this definitive work will be well appreciated..." ~Publishers Weekly "...the book brings to the foreground the emotional experience that a visitor can extract from visiting this exceptional place." ~Archinovations "Thanks to Fallingwater, a new book of essays and sumptuous photographs edited by Fallingwater's director, Lynda Waggoner, you can take an engrossing armchair tour. Those cantilevered decks still inspire..." ~Houseplans.com