Fallingwater

Frank Lloyd Wright


A detailed survey of Fallingwater, illustrated with photographs and drawings.


Robert McCarter


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Price: £12.95

130 points


Overview
  • Part of an award-winning architectural series for students and professionals
  • This volume focuses on Fallingwater, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Contains a detailed introductory essay and over 100 photographs and line drawings
  • Includes specially commissioned photography, technical drawings and working details



Specifications

About the book

Strategically placed above a waterfall, Fallingwater's horizontal cantilevered floors and terraces soar free of any apparent support. The building dynamically illustrates Frank Lloyd Wright's fascinating attitudes towards integrating architecture and nature and the truly extraordinary ways in which these are expressed.

Launched in 1991, the Architecture in Detail series attracted immediate acclaim and now comprises more than 60 titles. These books are highly collectable documents, each focusing in depth on a celebrated building. The series covers all sides of the vast spectrum of architecture from the past, present and future; the individual buildings are selected for their exceptional character, innovative design or technical virtuosity.

Each volume contains a definitive text by a respected author; a sequence of color and black-and-white photographs; a series of technical drawings; and a set of essential working details. These titles are vital to every architectural library, appealing to the professional and student alike, or indeed anyone with an appreciation of buildings.




In The Press

'Phaidon's Architecture in Detail series is an exemplary publishing effort, each attractive square-format volume offering thorough sets of drawings, fine photography and brief but intelligent texts.' (Interior Design)

'This series from Phaidon is proving to be a visually indulgent, useful addition to the field of architectural publishing.' (The Art Book)

'As always, Phaidon's Architecture in Detail series is a treat with lavish new colour pictures and excellent plans.' (RIBA Journal)

'The Architecture in Detail series is without question one of the most beautifully illustrated and well-documented collections of monographs on individual buildings produced anywhere in the world. These beautifully produced books combine historical and contemporary photographs, drawings and texts by sensitive critics.' (AIA Jury)



About the author(s)
Robert McCarter is Chair of the Department of Architecture at the University of Florida. His previous books include Building Machines, Frank Lloyd Wright: A Primer on Architectural Principles, and the monograph Frank Lloyd Wright, also published by Phaidon.


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