books by Franklin Toker (fallingwater distributed association)

books by Franklin Toker

books:

3 reviews
Franklin Toker

University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995

A Wonderful Guidebook!
Dr. Toker presents a wonderful history of Pittsburgh, keying on the buildings as the primary visual points of reference. There is a great deal of architectural detail, but that should not deter the reader with minimal insight into the field. The book is full of wonderful surprises and insights into the development of the city and individuals who drove the development. This is a book not just ...

Fallingwater Rising: Frank Lloyd Wright, E. J. Kaufmann, and America's Most Extraordinary House

25 reviews
Franklin Toker

Knopf, 2005

Architect's Review:
I must say that as an architect who has been practicing for over 25 years, I have not read any book quite like this before that reaches so deeply into the creation of a master work such as Fallingwater. I have always "appreciated" FLW work but only recently have more fully understood what he has accomplished and created in built architectural works that to me borders on magical and genius at the ...

The Art Bulletin: A Quarterly Published by The College Art Association of America: March 1985, Volume LXVII, ...
Mary Ellen Miller, Lorene Pouncey, ...

The College Art Association of America, 1985

Articles and Notes: "A Re-Examination of the Mesoamerican Chacmool"; "Tumulos of Colonial Peru"; "The Annointing in Bethany and Other Revelations of Christ's Divinity on Duccio's Back Predella"; "Tradition and Innovation in Some Altarpieces by Bartoli di Fredi"; "Gothic Architecture by Remote Control: An Illustrated Building Contract of 1340"; "Juries, Protests, and Counter-Exhibitions before 1850"; "Academic Theory and A.-L.-T. Vaudoyer's ...

Buildings of Pittsburgh (Buildings of United States (distributed))

3 reviews
Franklin Toker

Center for American Places, 2007

Superb treatment of Pittsburgh's architecture
Franklin Toker takes the reader through the neighborhoods of Pittsburgh to discuss buildings of note. Each chapter begins with a page or two to discuss the neighborhood's historical context, followed by descriptions and comments about its noteworthy buildings - about forty buildings in the chapter dedicated to downtown, for example. There is approximately one b&w photo per page, and each chapter ...

The Art Bulletin: A Quarterly Published by The College Art Association of America: June 1978, Volume LX, ...
Walter V. Leedy Jr., Franklin K. B. Toker, ...

The College Art Association of America, 1978

Articles: "The Origins of Fan Vaulting"; "Florence Cathedral: The Design Stage"; "Brunelleschi and the 'Ascension' of 1422"; "The Proportions of Ghiberti's Saint Stephen: Vitruvius's De Architectura and Alberti's De Statua"; "'Gates of Paradise' and the Florentine Baptistry"; "Aureola and Fructus: Distinctions of Beatitude in Scholastic Thought and the Meaning of Some Crowns in Early Flemish Painting"; "Van Mander on Ouwater and Geertgen"; ...

The Art Bulletin: A Quarterly Published by The College Art Association of America: June 1976, Volume LVIII, ...
Franklin Toker, Thalia Gouma-Peterson, ...

The College Art Association of America, 1976

Articles: "A Baptistery Below the Baptistery of Florence"; "The Parecclesion of St. Euthymios in Thessalonica: Art and Monastic Policy Under Andronicos II"; "A Rediscovered Series of Uomini Famosi from Quattrocento Venice"; "Musings on Maulne: Problems and Parallels"; "Cigoli's Annunciation at Montughi: A New Iconography"; "The Pythagorean Puzzle of Patrick Lyon"; "William Rimmer's Flight and Pursuit: An Allegory of Assassination"; "'Scenes of ...