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Fallingwater is the most famous modern house in America. Indeed, readers of the Journal of the American Institute of Architects voted it the best American building of the last 125 years! Annually, more than 128,000 visitors seek out Fallingwater in its remote mountain site in southwestern Pennsylvania. Considered Frank Lloyd Wright's domestic ...
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Oct 17, 2017 · Falling Water is a newly released biographical picture book about Frank Lloyd Wright’s architectural masterpiece. “Like a lantern glowing in the trees, the house hangs in the darkness.” From daydreams to realization, Falling Water’s illustrations bring to life Wright’s modern wonder.
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Sep 13, 2024 · Fallingwater—the iconic, Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home cantilevered over a waterfall—was a comeback story for the visionary American architect. Born in 1867, Wright was in his late 60s in...
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The mid-1930s were among the darkest years for architecture and architects in American history; the country’s financial system had collapsed with the failure of hundreds of banks. Almost no private homes were built. Many of the architectural projects started during the boom of the late 1920s were halted for lack of funds. Now in his sixties, Wright...
The Wrights devised an architectural apprenticeship program that came to be known as the “fellowship.” Among the first candidates was Edgar Kaufmann Jr., who became enamored with Wright after reading his biography. Kaufmann was the son of Pittsburgh department store tycoon Edgar Kaufmann Sr., whose thirteen-story downtown Pittsburgh emporium was re...
Perhaps the most famous tale to come out of the lore of Fallingwater is the improbable story that Wright, after receiving the commission, procrastinated for nine months until he was forced to draw up the complete plans while his patron was driving the 140 miles from Milwaukee to Taliesin. However, the essential story is validated by several witness...
Edgar Kaufmann Jr. pointed out that Wright’s famous concept of “Organic Architecture” stems from his Transcendentalistbackgroundwhich includes the belief that human life is part of nature.Wright even incorporated a rock outcropping that projected above the living room floor into his massive central hearth, further uniting the house with the earth. ...
Although he denied it, Wright was influenced by every conceivable architectural style, but Fallingwater owes little to his previous designs (the only exceptions being perhaps the use of irregular stones that are also found on Taliesin and his interest in strong horizontal lines). At Fallingwater, he appears to be more concerned with responding to t...
The Kaufmanns loved Wright’s radical proposal to literally suspend the house over the waterfall. But Edgar Kaufmann Sr., ever the pragmatic business man (who had also studied engineering for a year at Yale) prudently sent a copy of Wright’s blueprints to his engineer; who found the ground unstable and did not recommend that he proceed with the hous...
Architectural drawings of Fallingwater at the Library of Congress: plans, elevations. Fallingwater website. 3D model video fly-through.
The Kaufmanns & Fallingwater. The Kaufmanns’ unique path as a family, which led them to the community of Bear Run, Pennsylvania, and eventually the architect Frank Lloyd Wright, would lay the foundation for Fallingwater—one of the greatest architectural triumphs of the 20th century.
Oct 20, 2023 · Though the late American architect designed more than 1,000 buildings during his career, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater—a private home situated over an active waterfall in forested Mill Run,...
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Jan 7, 2024 · Fallingwater’s troubled history and Wright’s controversial and well-publicized private life and prolific oeuvre are a perfect mix of bringing architecture into a broader awareness. Frank Lloyd Wright, Fallingwater, 1935, Mill Run, PA, USA. Under The Hatch. The Architect – Frank Lloyd Wright.
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