Fallingwater

(Hardback)

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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, andanyone with an interest in interior design.

A landmark book detailing the most important building by the most importantarchitect of the 20th century.

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Editor Lynda Waggoner and photographer Christopher Little have produced a remarkable tribute to one of Wrights 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

Author Bio

Lynda Waggoner is vice president and director of Fallingwater andthe author of Fallingwater: Frank Lloyd Wright's Romance with Nature, and otherpublications. Christopher Little is a widely published and much acclaimedphotographer whose work was featured in the seminal volume Fallingwater (1986)by Edgar Kaufman. David G. De Long is Professor Emeritus at the University ofPennsylvania, author of numerous volumes on architecture, including Auldbrass:Frank Lloyd Wright's Southern Plantation. Rick Dark is a photographer andhorticulturist and award winning author of such books as The American WoodlandGarden. Justin Gunther is curator of Buildings and Collections at Fallingwater.Neil Levine is the Emmet Blakeney Gleason Professor of History of Art andArchitecture 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 structuralengineer who directed the strengthening of Fallingwater in 2002.