Main entry:

Toker, Franklin.

Title & Author:

Fallingwater rising : Frank Lloyd Wright, E.J. Kaufmann, and America's most extraordinary house / Franklin Toker.

Publication:

New York : A.A. Knopf, 2003.

Description:

479 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-462) and index.
A Fallingwater timeline -- Approaching Fallingwater -- The dead man of modern architecture plans a comeback -- E.J. Kaufmann of Pittsburgh suffers humiliation of another sort -- Bear Run : the land awaiting -- Frank Lloyd Wright seeks a client, gets a patron -- The design of Fallingwater struggles nine months to be born -- Raising Fallingwater -- Fallingwater gets an interior -- Fabricating Fallingwater I : the hype that sold it -- Fabricating Fallingwater II : the buzz that made America buy it -- The Kaufmanns showcase Fallingwater, and vice versa -- The renaissance prince in winter -- Edgar Kaufmann Jr., true lord of Fallingwater -- Fallingwater for ourselves.

Summary:

Fallingwater Rising is a biography not of a person but of the most famous house of the twentieth century. Scholars and the public have long extolled the house that Frank Lloyd Wright perched over a Pennsylvania waterfall in 1937, but the full story has never been told. Until now.

Resources:
Sample text
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

1400040264 (hc ; alk. paper)
9781400040261 (hc ; alk. paper)
9780375710155
0375710159

Subject:

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 Criticism and interpretation.
Kaufmann, Edgar J., 1885-1955 Homes and haunts Pennsylvania.
Kaufmann, Edgar J. <1885-1955> - Résidences et lieux familiers - Pennsylvanie.
Wright, Frank Lloyd <1867-1959> - Critique et interprétation.
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 Critique et interprétation.
Kaufmann, Edgar J., 1885-1955 Résidences et lieux familiers Pennsylvanie.
Kaufmann, Edgar J., 1885-1955.
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.
Kaufmann, Edgar J. 1885-1955
Wright, Frank Lloyd 1867-1959
Wright, Frank Lloyd, (1867-1959) Critique et interprétation.
Kaufmann, Edgar, (1910-1989) Résidences et lieux familiers Pennsylvanie (États-Unis)
Wright, Frank Lloyd.
Kaufmann, Edgar J.
Fallingwater (Pa.)
Fallingwater (Penns.)
Fallingwater (Batiment ; Pensylvanie)
Homes.
Architektur
Pennsylvania.
Fallingwater
Bear Run (Pa.) Fallingwater.

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 228943
Call No.: NA44.W949.25 F3 2003
Status: Available