FallingwaterEdgar Kaufmann's Home and Frank Lloyd Wright's Masterwork

The animation is of the 3D model by Nathan King of “Fallingwater”, Frank Lyoyd Wright’s masterwork in Bear Run, Pennsylvania with pictures of the rooms and exterior. Built in, and in places carved from, the stone hillside, Edgar Kaufmann’s home is the most famous house in America. In 2004 visitors were told by the tour guide that the house and its contents, which include original art by the some of the greatest artists of the 19th and 20th centuries, including Diego Rivera, Jose Maria Velasco and Picasso, is insured for two billion dollars. “Fallingwater Rising: Frank Lloyd Wright, E.J. Kaufmann and America’s Most Extraordinary House” by Franklin Toker is an excellent resource on the subject.
 

Front-of-jacket photographs: (top)© 2003 The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Scottsdale, Arizona; bottom Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University in the City of New York. Back-of-jacket photograph: © Pedro E. Guerrero. Jacket design by Steven Amsterdam
 
Franklin Toker, a professor of history of art and architecture at the University of Pittsburg, has published books on church architecture in French Canada, the ancient cathedral of Florence (which he excavated), and the architecture and urbanism of Pittsburgh. He has won the Porter Prize and the Hitchcock Award. He lives in Pittsburgh and his web site is franklintoker.com