Donald Hoffmann
Autore di Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater: The House and Its History
Sull'Autore
Donald Hoffmann served as art and architecture critic for the Kansas City Star from 1965 to 1990, was assistant editor of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians from 1970 to 1972, and is the author of seven books on the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright
Fonte dell'immagine: Photo by Lilithcat
Opere di Donald Hoffmann
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Hoffmann, Donald
- Data di nascita
- 1933-06-24
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Springfield, Illinois, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Kansas City, Missouri, USA
- Istruzione
- University of Chicago (BA|1953)
- Attività lavorative
- journalist
art and architecture critic
editor - Organizzazioni
- Kansas City Star
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
Utenti
Recensioni
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 10
- Utenti
- 728
- Popolarità
- #34,885
- Voto
- 4.1
- Recensioni
- 3
- ISBN
- 18
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.… (altro)