06250nam a2200445Ia 4500 pucpr 20220804154511.0 130517s1986 a fr 001 0 eng 13760848 0896596621 9780896596627 pucpr eng pucpr pucpr rda CARIBET NA737.W7 K29 1986 728.3720924 Kaufmann, Edgar 241356 Fallingwater : a Frank Lloyd Wright country house. / Edgar Kaufmann, Jr. ; introduction by Mark Girouard ; principal photography by Christopher Little and Thomas A. Heinz ; measured drawings by L.D. Astorino & Associates, Ltd. txt New York : Abbeville Press , 1986. 190 p., [11] pages of plates (1 folded) ill.; col.; maps.; plans.; photo.; 34 cm. book rdacontent text txt rdamedia unmediaded n rdacarrier volume nc Include index Include Biography Introduction -- The House and the Natural Landscape: A Prelude to Fallingwater by Mark Girouard -- Foreword -- Fallingwater, Known and Unknown -- Recollecting Fallingwater -- Drifting Toward Wright -- How Fallingwater Began -- The Faults of Fallingwater -- Living with Fallingwater -- Responsibilities -- Rewards and Opportunities -- Fallingwater in a New Role -- Entry and Main Floor -- Pictorial -- Realities at Fallingwater -- What Fallingwater Is-and Is Not -- Measured Drawings -- The Adaptability of Wrights Architecture -- Wright's Systems-and Mutations -- Presenting Continuous Space -- Fallingwater in Its Setting -- Inside Fallingwater -- Upper Floors and Guest Wing -- Pictorial -- Ideas of Fallingwater -- Images -- What Images Do Not Tell -- Afterword -- Fallingwater's Future -- Considered Frank Lloyd Wright's domestic masterpiece, Fallingwater is recognized worldwide as the paradigm of organic architecture. Here, in beautiful photographs, the first as-built measured plans, and an intimate narrative by a key figure, is the fascinating story of this masterwork. 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. 297458 Kauffman family Pictorial works Homes and haunts. Pennsylvania 190862 Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 Criticism and interpretation. Architecture Domestic 54087 Local United States Architecture 54081 History 20th century United States Fallingwater 222098 Local Pennsylvania-- Fayette Country 262890 Local Homes 235947 Local 246890 Little, Christopher. sample text https://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1612/86013967-s.html table of contents https://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1612/86013967-s.html Contributor biographical information https://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1612/86013967-b.html Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1401/86013967-d.html lcc 6 NA737.W7 General K29 1986 239809 239809 0 0 lcc 0 0 4 4 33 2013-04-09 Amazon 27.99 513724 3 1 General NA737.W7 K29 1986 91000000032672 2023-09-29 12:20:02 2019-03-20 1 37.99 2013-04-09 6