Fallingwater: A Frank Lloyd Wright Country House Book

Introduction:

The House and the Natural Landscape: A Prelude to Fallingwater by Mark Girouard

Foreword:

Fallingwater, Known and Unknown

Recollecting Fallingwater:

Drifting Toward Wright

How Fallingwater Began

The Faults of Fallingwater

Living with Fallingwater

Responsibilities

Rewards and Opportunities

Fallingwater in a New Role

Entry and Main Floor

Pictorial

Realities at Fallingwater:

What Fallingwater Is--and Is Not

Measured Drawings

The Adaptability of Wright's Architecture

Wright's Systems--and Mutations

Presenting Continuous Space

Fallingwater in Its Setting

Inside Fallingwater

Upper Floors and Guest Wing:

Pictorial

Ideas of Fallingwater:

Images

What Images Do Not Tell

Afterword:

Fallingwater's Future

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Index

Photography Credits

Author Biography: Edgar J. Kaufmann, Jr. (1910-1989), entered Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin Fellowship in 1934. During Fallingwater's design and construction, he often served as intermediary between his parents and Wright. Subsequently, Mr. Kaufmann joined the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, became editorial adviser to Encyclopaedia Britannica, and taught at Columbia University. Mr. Kaufmann was the author, editor, or contributor to several design and architecture books and wrote numerous articles. He served on the Editorial Board of the Architectural History Foundation.