Gebundenes Buch

Fallingwater

Beschreibung

This seminal volume, now back in print in a new format and at a reduced price, offers a deeply immersive tour of Frank Lloyd Wright's most legendary building

Autor

Lynda Waggoner is the director of Fallingwater and the vice president of the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy. She is the author of Fallingwater: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Romance with Nature, among other publications. Christopher Little is a widely published and much acclaimed photographer whose work was featured in the seminal volume Fallingwater (1986) by Edgar Kaufmann, Jr. David G. De Long is professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of numerous volumes on architecture. Rick Darke is a photographer and horticulturist, and an award-winning author of books such as The American Woodland Garden. Justin Gunther is the 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 the president of Robert Silman Associates and a noted structural engineer who directed the strengthening of Fallingwater in 2002.

Produktdetails

• Rizzoli Classics
• Verlag: Rizzoli US
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 237mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 1642g
• ISBN-13: 9780847848478
• ISBN-10: 0847848477
• Artikelnr.: 43551533

Rezensionen

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