Fallingwater: Frank Lloyd Wright by Robert McCarter (1997-05-03)

Fallingwater: Frank Lloyd Wright by Robert McCarter (1997-05-03) by McCARTER, Robert. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780760705469.

Part of a series of technically informative monographs embracing a broad spectrum of internationally renowned buildings, this work deals with Fallingwater in Pennsylvania, and includes a comprehensive set of technical drawings and working details. Fallingwater is one of the most inventive houses of Wrights long career and one of 20th-century architectures most celebrated landmarks. It is the building that revived Wrights reputation in the mid-1930s after years of critical neglect following his financial and domestic crises during the previous decade. Designed when Wright was in his 70s, it shows him to be an architect of immense resourcefulness and daring. Fallingwater was built for the Pittsburgh businessman Edgar J. Kaufman, whose Wright-designed office is preserved in the Victoria and Albert Museum. The house was placed strategically above a waterfall in a deep ravine known as Bear Run. Its horizontal cantilevered floors and terraces soar free of apparent support above the cascad