Product Details

• Actors: Lynda Waggoner; Richard Cleary
• Directors: Timothy Sakamoto
• Format: Box set, Color, Digital Sound, DVD, Full length, Full Screen, Special Edition, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: in-D press
• DVD Release Date: February 1, 2006
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000EHQWOW
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #52,920 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

In 1935, Frank Lloyd Wright designed a country house for the Kaufmann family over a small stream in Western Pennsylvania. He named it Fallingwater. It, perhaps more than any other building, exemplifies Wright’s concept of ‘organic’ architecture. Examining the relationships between the site, the building, the clients, and the architect, reveal why it stands as a testament to a great architect working at the height of his career.

DISK ONE: Additional Features:

10 Extended interviews with: Lynda Waggoner, Director of Fallingwater; Cara Armstrong, Curator of Buildings and Collections; Denise Miner, Public Tour Manager and Community Liaison; Richard Cleary, Architectural Historian. A slideshow of over 230 newly commissioned photographs of Fallingwater.

DISK TWO:

The next best thing to visiting Fallingwater, is this interactive, virtual tour featuring over 250 photographs and 17 VR panoramas. It’s an easy to use virtual tour which immerses you inside each room of the house and around the Fallingwater property. Computer requirements: Windows 95 and higher, and Mac OSX, DVD-ROM drive.

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent look at an inconic Wright commission, January 30, 2008

By	Mark S. Hertzberg (Racine, Wis.) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The first disc includes a rich history of this iconic Wright commission, with many historic photos. There are also extended interviews with Lynda Waggoner, the director of Fallingwater, and with Richard Cleary, an architectural historian.

Waggoner spoke at the recent Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy national meeting about her almost life-long involvement with, and love of, the house. Her enthusiasm for her work is contagious, as she takes us on tour, and talks about the house and its history. Her tour is a good precursor to one's first visit to Fallingwater (the 2008 Conservancy meeting will be at Fallingwater, in September).

Talking about E.J. Kaufmann and Wright, who sometimes clashed while the house was being built, she says, "They were similar people. They were both big thinkers, men who liked to make things happen, men who had great vision. What held them together was this shared vision of creating something extraordinary...You don't have to be very knowledgeable about architecture to have the building speak to you personally."

She paints vivid word pictures for us ("Suddenly nature is presented to you at the level of a bug. Wright had this unique ability to present nature to us."). She ends her interview telling us, "A masterpiece is something that has a timelessness about it...I think Fallingwater is doing well over the test of time..."

Cleary has a more academic view of the house. Their intimate knowledge of Fallingwater is woven with Sakamoto's photography, which takes us to places we cannot go in person. The camera is just to our right during the interviews. Cleary and Waggoner tend to look at the camera, rather than at the viewer. We would be drawn into the story of the house even more if they engaged us directly during their interviews.

The second disc of the set is an interactive visual tour of Fallingwater, including panoramic views of exterior of the house, and of the grounds. The disc includes copies of original plans and presentation drawings, as well as dozens of contemporary photos.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Spectacular look at Wright's Fallingwater!, June 17, 2008

By	Lesser Knowns (San Mateo, CA, USA) - See all my reviews

Length:: 1:56 Mins

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Captures multi-sensory experience, March 4, 2008

By	Susan Lockhart - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This DVD captures the multi-sensory experience of being in this iconic building in all seasons through historic photos, contemporary video and a personal narrative from Fallingwater's long-time director, Lynda Waggoner, who vividly shares her insights into the "extraordinary" of both the architecture and the two men of vision, Frank Lloyd Wright and his client Edgar Kaufmann, who came together to create this weekend retreat over the waterfall. Richard Cleary provides an architectural historian's viewpoint.