FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT DVD FALLINGWATER ARCHITECTURE 2 DOCS

Frank Lloyd Wright: Edgar J. Kaufmann - The Grand Client + Fallingwater Documentaries DVD . Two great documentaries in one DVD. This compilation is a definitive view of Fallingwater as well as the man who commissioned it. You will not only go back in time, but also hear from current architects with their analysis of this great work. This is a Must have for any Architecture Buff!

• Edgar J. Kaufmann - The Grand Client A fascinating examination of the renowned architect and his most famous client, department store tycoon Edgar J. Kaufmann, for whom Wright designed a Pittsburgh office, as well as the famed Fallingwater House. Using rare archival film footage and photographs, personal correspondences, interviews with family and former associates (grandson Eric Lloyd Wright, apprentice Edgar Tafel, and photographer Pedro Guerrero), and stunning shots of the interior spaces and design elements, this film dramatically recreates the prolific, often stormy collaboration between these two singular American figures, and captures the electrifying creativity of Wright between 1935-37. Winner of the National Educational Media Festival Gold Apple Award.
  
  This documentary explores the historical and social context for the office that Wright designed for Kaufmann's downtown Pittsburgh department store, which is now installed at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
  Edgar Kaufmann Sr. 1885-1955
  
  I always feel that I am a better man after having spent hours with you and regret that our paths cross so seldom.
  
  - Edgar Kaufmann Sr. to Frank Lloyd Wright, 1939
  
  
• FallingWater - Frank Lloyd Wright - A Documentary When Wright came to the site he appreciated the powerful sound of the falls, the vitality of the young forest, the dramatic rock ledges and boulders; these were elements to be interwoven with the serenely soaring spaces of his structure. But Wright's insight penetrated more deeply. He understood that people were creatures of nature, hence an architecture which conformed to nature would conform to what was basic in people. For example, although all of Fallingwater is opened by broad bands of windows, people inside are sheltered as in a deep cave, secure in the sense of hill behind them. Their attention is directed toward the outside by low ceilings; no lordly hall sets the tone but, instead, the luminous textures of the woodland, rhythmically enframed. The materials of the structure blend with the colorings of rocks and trees, while occasional accents are provided by bright furnishings, like wildflowers or birds outside. The paths within the house, stairs and passages, meander without formality or urgency, and the house hardly has a main entrance; there are many ways in and out. Sociability and privacy are both available, as are the comforts of home and the adventures of the seasons. So people are cosseted in to relaxing, into exploring the enjoyment of a life refreshed in nature. Visitors, too, in due measure experience Wright's architecture as an expansion of living.
  
  Fallingwater opened a new chapter in American architecture, and is perhaps rightly considered Wright's greatest work, for he was first and foremost an architect of houses. In its careful yet startling integration of stone walls anchored to the bedrock and modern reinforced concrete terraces hovering in space, Connors states that Fallingwater may be understood as 'one of the great critiques of the modern movement in architecture, and simultaneously one of its masterpieces'. Yet we cannot help feeling that there is more to this design than even that; this is an architecture that seizes our imagination, letting us see space and habitation in ways that seem new, but which we simultaneously feel to be ancient, somehow fundamental to our human nature
  
  
  
  
  "The definitive film on FallingWater".

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