Donald HoffmannBesprekingen
Auteur van Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater: The House and Its History
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This book was purchased at the gift shop, and covers how the seed was planted for Fallingwater and the trials and tribulations of it being built. It includes excerpts of letters between Wright and Kaufmann, among other correspondence between others concerning the build. Fallingwater was a challenge to build -- its design and locale specifically above water caused a lot of fits and spurts and occasional changes in plans and techniques in its development.
My only complaint about this volume is that the numerous pictures of Fallingwater before, during, and after are all in black and white (understandable for while it was being built, but would have been nice to have color pictures showing it is as it is today). But this quibble is actually what makes this book a reasonable price ($19.95) -- it's a Dover edition.
A very good book that provides a good feel of what it was like to build it, and to live in it once completed. It's easy to see why Fallingwater, and Wright himself, are iconic.