Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater

by Carla Lind, Frank Lloyd Wright (Designer)

Probably the most famous modern house in America, Fallingwater---the Pennsylvania country home placed right over a waterfall---was Frank Lloyd Wright's greatest triumph. This book captures the spirit of this exceptional design, tracing its creation and construction as well as showing its breathtaking interior and exterior spaces. By Carla Lind. 60 pages, 31 color photographs, 4 black & white photographs, 5 1/4 x 5 1/4". Casebound with dust jacket.

Genres: Architecture, Design

57 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1996

Reviews

[Mind the Book · Rating 4 out of 5]

Överraskande informativ för sin ringa - instagramartade - storlek.
Från museishoppen vid Fallingwater. <3

http://www.fallingwater.org/

[J · Rating 1 out of 5]

A book that was provided to me by sister although I am not quite sure why since I am not a big fan of architecture or modern style art but hey it appeared to be a quick read so chose to down it.

Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater is basically a book that explores a bit of history about Wright, how he came to know the son of Edgar Kaufmann, basically Junior, and then of course his start on the project that would help to re-launch his career. Parts of this just didn't feel like it belonged in this book since I mean basically the book itself is named after one particular work of his and not as a biography.

Secondly the book had way too much text and rather small font for it. The reader would find the page with a title, a sub-title and then several paragraphs to cover the subject that was meant to be tackled. At the same time there were captions included to the side that are just slightly smaller than the main text itself.

Another aspect that bothered me about this book would be that when it finally got down to discussing aspects of the house itself the actual focal wouldn't be on the page you were actually looking at or in one point the focal they were talking about was in the crease of the book so unless you didn't fold the book back you didn't see what was being pointed out. In this regard I rather wish that the book's focal would have been to provide photos of what was being discussed as well as the captions or text for that instead of having to turn the page.

For those who are interesting in Fallingwater in general, the architect or even modern art this may well be more your cup of tea than it was mine.

[Katy · Rating 3 out of 5]

I visited the house and wanted to pick up a little something to remind me of my trip. For a small, thin book it has some nice photos. The only problem is that they are not particularly good at identifying what they picture and a couple can lead the reader to think that some things are different parts of the complex than they are. The information is a light and easy read. I comfortably read it in a hour and only because I was taking my time.

[Marilyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very unusual house and book. I have visited some other FLW buildings - especially in Wisconsin in 2018.

I would like to see Fallingwater some day.

[Kate · Rating 4 out of 5]

A nice little pocket-sized collection of nice pictures of Fallingwater.

[Vicki · Rating 2 out of 5]

Too disjointed

[Lindsay · Rating 4 out of 5]

Loved the pictures and brief history. Would have enjoyed more pictures though.

[Rhona Crawford · Rating 5 out of 5]

Such a simple little book, but the images are amazing. Falling Water in a nutshell - enough to feed my fascination that started in high school.