Fallingwater

Franck Lloyd Wright

Robert McCarter - Collection Architecture in detail

60 pages, parution le 19/03/2002

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Résumé

Fallingwater is one of the most inventive houses of Frank Lloyd Wright's long career and one of the twentieth century's most celebrated icons. Marking a revival of Wright's reputation in the mid-1930s after years of critical neglect, the house was designed when Wright was approaching seventy, and shows him to be an architect of immense resourcefulness and daring. Placed above a waterfall in a deep ravine known as Bear Run, its horizontal cantilevered floors and terraces soar free of apparent support above the cascades and pools of the stream. Walls are avoided almost entirely, the sense of shelter provided by the overhangs and by screen-like windows detailed to enhance the building's vertical and horizontal rhythms. Within the house, the effects of dappled light , surrounding foliage and tumbling water exemplify Wright's attitudes towards integrating architecture and nature.

L'auteur - Robert McCarter

Robert McCarter est architecte et professeur d'architecture à l'université de Floride dont il a dirigé l'École d'Architecture de 1991 à 2001. Il est l'auteur de nombreuses publications, dont Frank Lloyd Wright, une monographie détaillée, Unity Temple et Fallingwater, trois ouvrages parus chez Phaidon et William Morgan: Selected and Recent Works (2002).

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Phaidon
Auteur(s)	Robert McCarter
Collection	Architecture in detail
Parution	19/03/2002
Nb. de pages	60
Format	25 x 25
Couverture	Broché
Poids	375g
Intérieur	Quadri
EAN13	9780714842134
ISBN13	978-0-7148-4213-4