House & Garden
"Ezra Stoller is the Annie Leibovitz of modern architecture."


House Beautiful, July 2000
Each compact volume in this impeccably curated series is devoted to a single, seminal work by a modern master.


Interior Design, June 2000
Handsome and well-priced; based on the brilliant photography of Ezra Stoller.


Book Description
These new titles in the Building Blocks series showcase four more icons of modern architecture, as portrayed by renowned architectural photographer Ezra Stoller. Two buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright, Fallingwater and Taliesin West, Louis Kahn's Salk Institute, and Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building are shown in original condition, with original furnishings, as the architects intended them to be seen. Wright's integration of architecture and landscape, Kahn's dramatic yet humane monumentality, and Mies's austere elegance are revealed and preserved in Stoller's classic compositions. Small, elegant, and affordable, each volume presents the photo-graphs that made these structures famous. With 60 rich duotone plates (and 16 color plates for Taliesin West), a brief introduction, and newly drawn plans, sections, and elevations, these books constitute the essential photographic histories of the most important works of modernism.


About the Author
Ezra Stoller, one of the world's preeminent architectural photographers, is also the founder of the Esto Photographics agency.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

In 1937, anxious to escape the frigid winters of his native Wisconsin, Frank Lloyd Wright acquired a vast plot of unincorporated desert land in Arizona's Isolated Paradise Valley. Taliesin West, the sprawling compound he would construct on the site, became his cold-weather headquarters and the southwestern home of the Taliesin Fellowship, the apprenticeship-based arts school he had founded, with his wife Olgivanna, in 1932.. "The interconnected structures he designed for Taliesin West were built of volcanic stone set in concrete, with redwood braces supporting canvas roofs and flaps that opened out to the desert and mountains beyond, providing both ventilation and a seamless connection to the landscape. Strategically placed petroglyphs, remnants of the ancient Hohokam who had once peopled the area, imbue the complex with a resonant link to the history of the region.. "Acclaimed architectural photographer Ezra Stoller had a special rapport with Wright, and photographed much of the architect's work at Wright's request. Stoller's color and black-and-white photographs of Taliesin West, taken over the course of two visits to the complex, present a vision of Wright's desert homestead at once austere and luxuriant.. "Neil Levine, a leading scholar of Wright's work and a board member of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy, provides an introductory essay describing the complex and its significance.

SYNOPSIS

These new titles in the Building Blocks series showcase four more icons of modern architecture, as portrayed by renowned architectural photographer Ezra Stoller.Two buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright, Fallingwater and Taliesin West, Louis Kahn's Salk Institute, and Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building are shown in original condition, with original furnishings, as the architects intended them to be seen. Wright's integration of architecture and landscape, Kahn's dramatic yet humane monumentality, and Mies's austere elegance are revealed and preserved in Stoller's classic compositions.Small, elegant, and affordable, each volume presents the photo-graphs that made these structures famous. With 60 rich duotone plates (and 16 color plates for Taliesin West), a brief introduction, and newly drawn plans, sections, and elevations, these books constitute the essential photographic histories of the most important works of modernism.

FROM THE CRITICS

House Beautiful

Each compact volume in this impeccably curated series is devoted to a single, seminal work by a modern master; introductory essays reveal intriguing tidbits.

Interior Design

Handsome and well-priced; based on the brilliant photography of Ezra Stoller.

Architects Journal

The books are pocket-sized but Stoller's images, well-reproduced, are still effective in this small format. Not just his eye and technique impress but also his tolerance and apt inclusion of people.

Elle Decor

Architectural photographer Ezra Stoller's stunning oeuvre forms the basis for Princeton Architectural Press's "Building Block" series of books saluting landmarks of 20th-century architecture. The first titles: The TWA Terminal, The Chapel at Ronchamp, The United Nations, and The Yale Art and Architecture Building.

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