Fallingwater by Robert Mccarter

Fallingwater by Robert Mccarter

Strategically placed above a waterfall, Fallingwater's horizontal cantilevered floors and terraces soar free of any apparent support. The building dynamically illustrates Frank Lloyd Wright's fascinating attitudes towards integrating architecture and nature and the truly extraordinary ways in which these are expressed. Launched in 1991, the Architecture in Detail series attracted immediate acclaim and now comprises more than 60 titles. These books are highly collectable documents, each focusing in depth on a celebrated building. The series covers all sides of the vast spectrum of architecture from the past, present and future; the individual buildings are selected for their exceptional character, innovative design or technical virtuosity. Each volume contains a definitive text by a respected author; a sequence of color and black-and-white photographs; a series of technical drawings; and a set of essential working details. These titles are vital to every architectural library, appealing to the professional and student alike, or indeed anyone with an appreciation of buildings.

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Brian Healy With more than 30 years of experience in architectural design, Brian oversees the design direction and studio culture of the Boston office. Brian was educated at the Pennsylvania State University and the Yale School of Architecture where he was Editor of Perspecta 19: the Yale Architectural Journal. He has worked with some of the industry's most renowned design firms including Cesar Pelli & Associates & Richard Meier & Partners. He established his own architectural practice in Boston in 1986 where he compiled a distinguished record of creative activity, community service and professional achievement. The architectural projects produced by his office received 47 national and regional design awards including six within the Progressive Architecture Award Program. He was selected as an Emerging Voice by the Architectural League of New York and included in Forty under Forty and P/A's Young Architects. His firm won first place in international design competitions including Chicago's Initiative to Redefine Public Housing and the Mill Center for the Arts in Hendersonville, North Carolina. His work spans a diverse range of scales and settings. Marlon Blackwell Marlon Blackwell (born November 7, 1956) is an American architect and university professor in Arkansas. A Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, he has used his distinct and original voice to produce iconic, award-winning designs across typologies, scales, and budgets. His critically resolute glocal approach merges the universal language of architecture and the particulars of place, resulting in a distinguished body of work found outside the centers of fashion. He is founder and principal at Marlon Blackwell Architects, a design firm established in 1992 in Fayetteville, which has received more than 150 domestic and international awards, including 14 national AIA Honor Awards. Despite working where architecture is unexpected and often unappreciated, his firm has created beloved buildings across a wide variety of project types yet deliberately focused on projects that foster the public good, most notably in education, healthcare, and recreation Robert McCarter Robert McCarter is a practicing architect, professor of architecture, and author. He is the Ruth and Norman Moore Professor of Architecture at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. From 1991-2007, he was professor of architecture, and for ten years he was director of the School of Architecture, both at the University of Florida. From 1986-1991, he was associate professor and assistant dean at the Graduate School of Architecture, Columbia University, New York. He was visiting critic at the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam; he was appointed as the Frederic Lindley Morgan Distinguished Professor of Architectural Design at the University of Louisville; he has taught as visiting studio critic at North Carolina State University; and he has been appointed as a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome on three occasions. During his 33 years in academia, including 17 years in leadership roles at three institutions, McCarter has taught at least one design studio every semester, and he has taught more than 1,800 students. He coordinated the architecture lecture series at Columbia University (1986-1991), University of Florida (1991-2005), and Washington University in St. Louis (2007-2012). He invited Wang Shu to lecture in February 2012, the lecture taking place only two days after Wang was announced as the 2012 Pritzker Prize winner; Someone at Washington University in St. Louis just hit the lecture jackpot, is the way Blair Kamin of the Chicago Tribune described this event. Oscar Riera Ojeda RIERA OJEDA, OSCAR is an editor and designer based in the US, China, and Argentina. Born in 1966, in Buenos Aires, he moved to the United States in 1990. Since then he has published over two hundred books, assembling a remarkable body of work notable for its thoroughness of content, timeless character, and sophisticated and innovative craftsmanship. Oscar Riera Ojeda's books have been published by many prestigious publishing houses across the world, including Birkhü¾†”¼user, Byggfü¾¦˜¼rlaget, The Monacelli Press, Gustavo Gili, Thames & Hudson, Rizzoli, Damiani, Page One, ORO editions, Whitney Library of Design, and Taschen. Oscar Riera Ojeda is also the creator of numerous architectural book series, including Ten Houses, Contemporary World Architects, The New American House and The New American Apartment, Architecture in Detail, and Single Building. His work has received many international awards, in-depth reviews, and citations. He is a regular contributor and consultant for several publications in the field.

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ISBN 13	9780714842134
ISBN 10	0714842133
Title	Fallingwater
Author	Robert Mccarter
Series	Architecture In Detail
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Phaidon Press Ltd
Year published	2002-03-19
Number of pages	60
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