Fallingwater Rising - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fallingwater Rising write by Franklin Toker. This book was released on 2007-12-18. Fallingwater Rising available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fallingwater Rising is a biography not of a person but of the most famous house of the twentieth century. Scholars and the public have long extolled the house that Frank Lloyd Wright perched over a Pennsylvania waterfall in 1937, but the full story has never been told. When he got the commission to design the house, Wright was nearing seventy, his youth and his early fame long gone. It was the Depression, and Wright had no work in sight. Into his orbit stepped Edgar J. Kaufmann, a Pittsburgh department-store mogul–“the smartest retailer in America”–and a philanthropist with the burning ambition to build a world-famous work of architecture. It was an unlikely collaboration: the Jewish merchant who had little concern for modern architecture and the brilliant modernist who was leery of Jews. But the two men collaborated to produce an extraordinary building of lasting architectural significance that brought international fame to them both and confirmed Wright’s position as the greatest architect of the twentieth century. Fallingwater Rising is also an enthralling family drama, involving Kaufmann, his beautiful cousin/wife, Liliane, and their son, Edgar Jr., whose own role in the creation of Fallingwater and its ongoing reputation is central to the story. Involving such key figures of the l930s as Frida Kahlo, Albert Einstein, Henry R. Luce, William Randolph Hearst, Ayn Rand, and Franklin Roosevelt, Fallingwater Rising shows us how E. J. Kaufmann’s house became not just Wright’s masterpiece but a fundamental icon of American life. One of the pleasures of the book is its rich evocation of the upper-crust society of Pittsburgh–Carnegie, Frick, the Mellons–a society that was socially reactionary but luxury-loving and baronial in its tastes, hobbies, and sexual attitudes (Kaufmann had so many mistresses that his store issued them distinctive charge plates they could use without paying). Franklin Toker has been studying Fallingwater for eighteen years. No one but he could have given us this compelling saga of the most famous private house in the world and the dramatic personal story of the fascinating people who made and used it. A major contribution to both architectural and social history.
Frank Lloyd Wright's Dana House
Frank Lloyd Wright's Dana House - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Frank Lloyd Wright's Dana House write by Donald Hoffmann. This book was released on 2013-10-01. Frank Lloyd Wright's Dana House available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Handsome pictorial essay documents creation of residential masterpiece with more than 160 interior and exterior photos, plans, elevations, sketches, and studies. Informative text recounts the house's history, including its site, plans, and construction.
Outgrowing the Earth
Outgrowing the Earth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Outgrowing the Earth write by Lester R. Brown. This book was released on 2012-04-27. Outgrowing the Earth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Historically, food security was the responsibility of ministries of agriculture but today that has changed: decisions made in ministries of energy may instead have the greatest effect on the food situation. Recent research reporting that a one degree Celsius rise in temperature can reduce grain yields by 10 per cent means that energy policy is now directly affecting crop production. Agriculture is a water-intensive activity and, while public attention has focused on oil depletion, it is aquifer depletion that poses the more serious threat. There are substitutes for oil, but none for water and the link between our fossil fuel addiction, climate change and food security is now clear. While population growth has slowed over the past three decades, we are still adding 76 million people per year. In a world where the historical rise in land productivity has slowed by half since 1990, eradicating hunger may depend as much on family planners as on farmers. The bottom line is that future food security depends not only on efforts within agriculture but also on energy policies that stabilize climate, a worldwide effort to raise water productivity, the evolution of land-efficient transport systems, and population policies that seek a humane balance between population and food. Outgrowing the Earth advances our thinking on food security issues that the world will be wrestling with for years to come.
Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater
Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater write by Donald Hoffmann. This book was released on 1993-01-01. Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Traces the complicated development of Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater, including planning, site selection, and construction
Fallingwater
Fallingwater - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fallingwater write by Lynda S. Waggoner. This book was released on 2011. Fallingwater available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Presents a pictorial look at the history, structure, and restoration of Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater.
