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Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater, in Bear Run, Pa., of 1935, is one of the great masterpieces of modern architecture. Its model, constructed by Paul Bonfilio in 1984 , is a masterpiece of model making and a high point in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In discussing how the model was built, the design of the famous house itself is also analyzed, throwing new light on many intricacies of its complex construction.

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At first blush, the title has the same desperate ring as McDonald's: The Tofuburger or Disney: The Diaper--they couldn't think of another angle for a book about Fallingwater, the 1937 Pennsylvania house that still ranks as perhaps Frank Lloyd Wright's most famous and loved project, so they decided to do a book about the model of Fallingwater? Jeez! Such were my thoughts until I started leafing through this absolutely fascinating little book by Paul Bonfilio, the Madame Tussaud of architectural model-makers, who has created miniature reproductions of architectural landmarks (among them Johnson's Glass House, Neutra's Lovell House, and Mies's Barcelona Pavilion) for the permanent collection of NYC's Museum of Modern Art. Here, Bonfilio walks you through the process of re-creating on a Lilliputian scale this most complicated and beguiling of modernist houses--a job he completed for the MoMA in the early 1980s, only to do it again a few years later for a private commission. His painstaking narration, black-and-white photographs of each stage of the model's creation, and Ted Spagna's excellent photographs of the real house (shot expressly for Bonfilio to use in planning out his work) all work together splendidly here. Anyone who ever found satisfaction in the minutely focused process of assembling a model car or airplane will be completely absorbed by Bonfilio's quest to reproduce with unstinting detail and realism the diverse textures of Wright's masterpiece, from the complex stonework of its inner and outer walls to the dazzling sheen of the waterfall over which the front of the structure so famously perches.

But even better than that, Bonfilio's loving chronicle of taking Fallingwater apart and putting it back together again, as it were, accomplishes something that dozens of other books on this iconic house fail to do: it gets us to look at the house and its complex topography, its every elevation and surface, corner, and detail--as well as the choices, inspired and imprudent, that Wright made in designing it--with a fresh new eye. It's almost like having an investment in its original creation, figuring out step by step how to build a house around a boulder, cantilever it over a waterfall, build half the furniture right into it, and somehow make the whole thing work structurally and look drop-dead gorgeous at the same time. Oh, and the book's end papers are matched to the same Cherokee-red paint that Wright used in the house--the perfect swaddling for this unexpectedly delightful little volume's embarrassment of riches. --Timothy Murphy

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Paul Bonfilio is an architect, and currently a commissioner and vice-chairman of the Board of Standards and Appeals of the City of New York.

Terrence Riley is chief curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0847823415
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Rizzoli (February 3, 2001)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 80 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780847823413
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0847823413
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.16 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.25 x 0.5 x 8.25 inches

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JL

How to build a $60,000.00 model!

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Very detailed book. I nearly booked a flight to New York to see it at the MOMA, but checked online and it's not currently on display. I toured Falling Water in 1998, and I also found a quality FW tee shirt at the FLW Conservancy site.

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Glenn Ralston

... a magical visit with a different perspective ...

Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2004

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In the late '50s I had the unusual chance to personally ask FLW what school might be best to learn City Planning. Not knowing then that his inimitable, signature response would be "you can't learn that in a School, you have to learn by doing."
Later, I also had the pleasure of knowing Paul Bonfilio, and can attest that his own product here is a labor of love that reflects an intuitive, heartfelt resonance.
BTW, if you have the opportunity to personally visit Fallingwater, try to exactly time it to that week in May when the surrounding wooded Moutain Laurel canopy is in their full and profuse bloom for an added breathtakingly magical experience.

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I'm really enthralled by the amazing job that modelers can do, and this book was an excellent journey through what it took to build a detailed model of an iconic American architectural gem. I especially liked it since it was both a look into the mind and methods of a skilled model builder and a glimpse of the details of the actual building.

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Setting the record straight

Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2013

It is unfortunate that the review by LKP is of a different model of Fallingwater and NOT the model by Paul Bonfilio. For a model to be in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art and receive the praise of then curator Terrence Riley must mean that it was built to the highest standards. If LKP had read the book, this would have been self evident. When you search for photos of the Fallingwater model you will find that several versions have been built, but only one is in MOMA and only one has the most realistic and accurate rendition of this Architectural Masterpiece. Constructing this model was a two year effort certainly much longer and more exacting than the other versions that exist.

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A (failed) model of an Icon

Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2012

I was just browsing through the Amazon listings, to find more books on Fallingwater to add to my collection. When it comes to that iconic structure.....the more information, the better. I have to admit I was captivated by the concept that there was a book about "the model" of Fallingwater, and before I took the plunge and ordered the book, I decided to do a Google Image Search to see what the model looks like. As someone who has visited Fallingwater many times, I did a double take......I guess there is room for debate, but (to me) this model does NOT resemble the structure in the least. And the fact that it has become the subject of a book, plus has gotten the approval of MOMA.....I guess I simply don't understand how this benign little model surrounded by a few
timid tiny twigs has gotten such recognition. So, bear with me if this review has turned into a commentary on the Model itself, instead of the book. Harumph!

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