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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater by Donald Hoffman
Frank Lloyd Wrights Fallingwater by Donald Hoffman
The house and its history
100 illustrations.
Soft Cover Writing on first page, in margins on at least 2 pages, Cover has a crease - lower right corner includes a flyer for Fallingwater.
98 pages
Copyright 1978
CONTENTS
I BEAR RUN3
II THE HOUSE Is CONCEIVED: 193511
III CONSTRUCTION BEGINS: 193623
IV FINISHING THE HOUSE: 193749
V THE GUEST WING AND AFTER73
INDEX95
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
1. Bear Run, Fayette County, Pa. Photo: author.
2. Mountain ridge above Bear Run. Photo: author.
3. Map of Bear Run, based on U.S. Geological Survey.
4. Waterfall on Bear Run. From a postcard, before 1912. Courtesy: Samuel E. Stewart.
5. Fallingwater. Photo: Harold Corsini.
6. Boulders below falls. From a postcard, before 1912. Courtesy: Samuel E. Stewart
7. Rhododendron at Bear Run. Photo: Harold Corsini.
8. Syria Country Club House, Bear Run. From a postcard, before 1912. Courtesy: Samuel E. Stewart.
9. Mouth of Bear Run. Photo: author.
10. Porter cottage and wooden truss bridge. From a postcard, before 1912. Courtesy: Samuel E. Stewart.
11. Topographic map of building site, March 1935. Courtesy: Avery Library, Columbia University.
12. First sketch of floor plans, September 1935. Courtesy: The Museum of Modern Art.
13. First sketch of south elevation, September 1935. Courtesy: William H. Sims.
14. Plan of first floor. Courtesy: Avery Library, Columbia University.
15. Plans of second and third floors, and elevations. Courtesy: Avery Library, Columbia University.
16. Rock ledges along Bear Run. Photo: author
17. Stone masonry of bridge terminal, Fallingwater. Photo: author.
18. Quarrying stones for the house, 1936. Courtesy: Western Pennsylvania Conservancy.
19. Perspective study of Fallingwater by Wright. Courtesy: The Museum of Modern Art.
20. East living-room terrace and curved parapet at stairwell. Photo: author.
21. Wright with apprentices at Taliesin, fall 1937. Photo: Hedrich-Blessing.
22. Section of house, looking west. Courtesy: Avery Library, Columbia University.
23, East side of house. Photo: Harold Corsini.
24. Plunge pool. Photo: Harold Corsini.
25. Bolsters under first floor. Courtesy: Avery Library, Columbia University.
26. House from the southeast, November 1937. Photo: Hedrich-Blessing.
27. Beam structure of east living-room terrace, October 1936. Courtesy: Avery Library, Columbia University.
28. Finished east living-room terrace, November 1937. Photo: Hedrich-Blessing.
29. Steps from living room to stream. Photo: Harold Corsini.
30. Steps to stream, November 1937. Photo: Hedrich-Blessing.
31. Hanging steps from second story. Photo: Harold Corsini.
32. Hatch to stream and doors to east living-room terrace, November 1937. Photo: Hedrich-Blessing.
33. Hatch opened, November 1937. Photo: Hedrich-Blessing.
34. Shaft of windows for kitchen and two west bedrooms. Photo: Harold Corsini.
35. Stone steps to plunge pool. Photo: Harold Corsini.
36. Stone footbath by main entry. Photo: Harold Corsini.
37. Entrance loggia. Photo: Harold Corsini
38. East corner of living room, November 1937. Photo: Hedrich-Blessing.
39. Second-floor trellis beams tying into rock cliff. Photo: author.
40. Trellis beam curved to accept tree trunk. Photo: Harold Corsini.
41. Transverse beams of west-bedroom terrace, December 1936. Courtesy: Avery Library, Columbia University.
42. View from finished west-bedroom terrace, November 1937. Photo: Hedrich-Blessing.
43. Formwork and cantilevers, October 1936. Courtesy: Avery Library, Columbia University.
44. Second floor, northwest corner, October 1936Courtesy: Avery Library, Columbia University,
45. View from bridge, October 1936. Courtesy: Avery Library, Columbia University.
46. House in the snow, December 1936. Courtesy: Avery Library, Columbia University.
47. Cantilevers, December 1936. Courtesy: Avery Library, Columbia University.
48. Fallingwater, November 1937. Photo: Hedrich-Blessing,
49. Cantilevered west-bedroom terrace. Photo: Harold Corsini.
50. Living room, looking toward south side. Photo: Harold Corsini.
51. Shaft of windows opened at corner, November 1937. Photo: Hedrich-Blessing.
52. Corner windows in bathroom of master bedroom. Photo: W. Galen Barton.
53. Glass into stone. Photo: Harold Corsini.
54. Boulder at living-room hearth. Photo: author.
55. Metal shelves above dining table. Photo: author.
56. Wine kettle at hearth. Photo: Harold Corsini.
57. Detail of stairs to stream. Photo: Harold Corsini.
58. West-balcony staircase. Photo: Harold Corsini.
59. Stairs to servants' quarters of guest wing. Photo: Harold Corsini.
60. Stairs to second story. Photo: Harold Corsini.
61. Guest bedroom in main house. Photo: Harold Corsini.
62. Second-story landing, looking east. Photo: Harold Corsini.
63. Second-story landing, looking west. Photo: Harold Corsini.
64. Bridge across drive. Photo: Harold Corsini.
65. Fallingwater from hill. Photo: Harold Corsini.
66. Master-bedroom fireplace, November 1937. Photo: Hedrich-Blessing.
67. Second-story west bedroom. Photo: Harold Corsini.
68. Third-story fireplace. Photo: W. Galen Barton
69. Bathroom surfaces in cork. Photo: Harold Corsini.
70. Bathroom fixtures. Photo: Harold Corsini.
71. The kitchen. Photo: Harold Corsini.
72. Walnut wardrobe detail. Photo: W. Galen Barton.
73. Bedroom desk detail. Photo: Harold Corsini
74. Cushioned stools in living room, Photo: Harold Corsini.
75. Circular chair. Photo: Harold Corsini.
76. Dining-table chairs. Photo: Harold Corsini
77. Kaufmann's office, November 1937. Photo: Hedrich-Blessing,
78. Opposite side of office, November 1937. Photo: Hedrich-Blessing.
79. Fallingwater, November 1937. Photo: Hedrich-Blessing.
80. Central recess in living-room ceiling, November 1937. Photo: Hedrich-Blessing.
81. Ceiling recess paneled. Photo: author.
82. Plan of guest-wing connection. Courtesy: Avery Library, Columbia University.
83. Carports and servants' quarters. Photo: Harold Corsini.
84. Guest lounge. Photo: Harold Corsini.
85. Guest bedroom. Photo: Harold Corsini.
86. Fireplace in guest lounge. Photo: Harold Corsini.
87. Swimming pool. Photo: author.
88. Terrace by guest wing. Photo: W. Galen Barton.
89. Trellis by guest bedroom. Photo: Harold Corsini.
90. Fallingwater in the forest. Photo: Paul G. Wiegman.
91. Canopy above walkway from guest wing to main house. Photo: Harold Corsini.
92. Return of canopy. Photo: Harold Corsini.
93. Moss garden. Photo: Harold Corsini.
94. Boulder in bridgeway. Photo: Harold Corsini.
95. Steel-post detail. Photo: W. Galen Barton.
96. Third-story gallery. Photo: W. Galen Barton.
97. Sitting-room addition to kitchen. Photo: W. Galen Barton.
98. Hanging stairs, rebuilt in 1955. Photo: Harold Corsini.
99. Fallingwater in winter. Photo: Harold Corsini.
100. Fallingwater at dusk. Photo: Harold Corsini.
ON THE BACK COVER
"As everyone knows," Frank Lloyd Wright said, "we live in economic, aesthetic and moral chaos, for the reason that American life has achieved no organic form."
Organic form was Wright's credo, and its most splendid embodiment is Falling-water. Fallingwater, the private dwelling which juts directly over a waterfall at Bear Run in western Pennsylvania, is the boldest and most personal architectural statement of Wright's mature years. When Life magazine featured it on its inside front cover (January 17, 1938) , Wright wrote the owner, Pittsburgh merchant Edgar Kaufmann, to proclaim the opening of a new era in architecture.
This account covers the history of the picturesque Bear Run site and the Kaufmann family's involvement with it; the germination of a vision in Wright's mind; and the day-to-day planning, construction, alterations and cost overruns. Preeminent is the domineering personality of Wright, and his intimate, occasionally stormy relations with Edgar Kaufmann, called by contemporaries "a true merchant prince." Although Kaufmann supported and believed in Wright, the Pittsburgh retailer had his own ideas about the summer house he wanted, and the building of Fallingwater is studded with confrontations over aesthetics and structure. At one point, after Kaufmann complained of a critical engineering report, Wright told him to send the plans for Fallingwater back to Taliesin, "since [Kaufmann] did not deserve the house." Kaufmann apologized, and construction was begun.
FALLINGWATER studies in detail the architectural innovations brought to fruition at Bear Run: the cantilevered construction, the ingenious integration with the majestic waterfall, the cascading staircases, organic use of ornament, and the problematic, ultimately triumphant use of reinforced concrete. Donald Hoffmann, author of two previous books on architecture, has based his text on interviews with Wright's apprentices and research into letters, plans and documents comprising the Bear Run papers, now on deposit in the Avery Architectural Library at Columbia University.
100 beautifully reproduced photographs, preliminary drawings, sketches And plans illustrate the history of Fallingwater. The site is pictured before, during, and after construction, with attention focused on the gradual growth of line and proportion. FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT'S FALLINGWATER is a complete record of the birth, growth and maturity of an architectural idea.
Original Dover (1978) publication, in cooperation with the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy. Preface by Edgar J. Kaufmann, jr. Index. Footnotes. 100 illustrations.
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