Building the Pauson House : The Letters of Frank Lloyd Wright and Rose Pauson (Hardcover)

from Yells

This is a neat little collection of letters between Wright and Pauson while Pauson House was being built. I felt a little voyeuristic peeking into the lives of others but it really gives an interesting perspective of a friendship and business partnership. The one thing I would have liked was perh...

from mhgatti

Nice coffee table book. It's strongest feature is that it shows Wright at work as an architect, politely arguing his vision with a client. He's become such an icon that it's easy to forget that he had to deal with client's issues and change requests, and make some compromises, just like any archi...

from sweetie_candykim

This is lovely book to read out of curiosity. It is presented well, using post-it note type notes on the inside and good quality paper. It gives a good insight into building and designing the house, including a few plans and elevations. The only negative is some of the notes are hard to read, eit...

from scofer

Building the Pauson House is a fascinating collection of correspondence, photos and detailed plans involved in Frank Lloyd Wright's design and construction of a home in the Arizona desert for a San Francisco socialite in the late 1930s. In this day and age of emails, texts, computers and smart ph...

from themagiciansgirl

Building the Pauson House is a delightful book. It's chock full of the colorful and captivating correspondence between Frank Lloyd Wright and Rose Pauson during the planning and construction of her home and studio in Phoenix, AZ. Through their words we see details of the complicated business of b...