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Fallingwater

Mill Run, Pennsylvania

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The History of Fallingwater

Courtesy of Western Pennsylvania ConservancyFallingwater

Contents

Frank Lloyd Wright ...........................................................................................5

History of Fallingwater

Facts from the Project ...................................................................................8

The Architect’s Thoughts about the Building ................................ 9

Building Instructions ......................................................................................11

A Word from the Artist ..............................................................................104

Architecture: Bringing two worlds together .............. 105

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References .......................................................................................................107

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Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright, 1867–1959, is recognized worldwide as one of the greatest architects of the 20th century. His work heralded a new approach to architecture using innovations in design and engineering made possible by newly developed technology and materials.

No other American architect’s work endures, or remains as compelling, as that of Frank Lloyd Wright. His was a unique style rooted in nature, that he called “organic architecture,” emphasizing the harmonious relationship between a building and its landscape. It changed how we came to view our buildings, towns, and the land around us.

Photo: OBM A. ® F.L. Wri ght Fdn.

History of Fallingwater

“He had the design totally in his head, as always, and

as he recommended to the apprentices, if no whole idea, no architecture.” John Lautner, letter of June 20,

1974. Lautner was an apprentice from 1933 to 1939.

“Mr. Wright was not at all disturbed by the fact that not

one line had been drawn. As was normal, he asked me to bring him the topographical map of Bear Run to his draughting table in the sloping-roofed studio at Taliesin, a rustic but wondrous room in itself... I stood by, on his right side, keeping his colored pencils sharpened. Every line he drew, vertically and especially horizontally, I watched with complete fascination... Mr. Kaufmann arrived and Mr. Wright greeted him in his wondrously warm manner. In the studio, Mr. Wright explained the sketches to his client. Mr. Kaufmann, a very intelligent but practical gentleman, merely said... ‘I thought you would place the house near the waterfall, not over it.’ Mr. Wright said quietly, ‘E.J. I want you to live with the waterfall, not just to look at it, but for it to become an integral part of your lives.’ And it did just that.” Bob Mosher, Letter of Jan. 20, 1974.

“In 1963, Edgar Kaufmann Jr. gave his home, Fallingwater,

to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy with the intent that it be open to the public for tours. His gift constitutes one of the most magnanimous acts in the annals of architectural and ne art history. This one building, undoubtedly the most famous private residence built in a free, democratic society, has been widely published the world over since its completion

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in 1939, and its inuence continues to this day.

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balconies above it, emphasizes this element of projecting forms merging building and landscape. In most architecture of the world, balconies are smaller features of a larger, more stable mass. At Fallingwater, the entire house is composed of these projections from and above the rock ledges.

The rooms themselves, with their adjacent outdoor

terraces, are all a part of broad-sweeping balconies reaching out to the branches of the surrounding

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trees, and over the stream and waterfalls below.

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“Fallingwater is a country home, and in the annals of

so-called country homes it differs from any other ever built up to that time... Fallingwater achieves something that no country home successfully had before: it emphasizes, in every place and at every turn, the wonder and beauty of nature in this

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woodland setting.

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“Fallingwater is that rare work which is composed of

such delicate balacing of forces and counterforces, transformed into spaces thrusting horizontally, vertically and diagonally, that the whole achieves the

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serenity which marks all great works of art.

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“The famous view of the house, taken from downstream

looking up to the water cascades and under the

Left: Elevation and Floor Plan Above: Scaf folding

Facts from the Project

Architect: ...............................................................Frank Lloyd Wright

Classication:

................................................................................................................1935

Year: Construction Type:

Square Feet: Original Cost:

Top right: Scaffolding Bottom left: Construction workers Bottom right: Construction

........................................................... Vacation Home

...........Reinforced Poured Concrete

with Limestone Fascia

.....................................................2,885 sq. ft. interior

............................................................................ $ 155,000

The Architect’s Thoughts about the Building

“The rock-ledges of a stone-quarry are a story and a

longing to me. There is suggestion in the strata and character in the formations. I like to sit and feel it, as it is. Often I have thought, were great monumental buildings ever given me to build, I would go to the Grand Canyon of Arizona to ponder them… For in the stony bone-work of the Earth, the principles that shaped stone as it lies, or as it rises and remains to be sculptured by winds and tide – there sleep forms and styles enough for all the

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ages for all of Man.

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“The visit to the waterfall in the woods stays with me

and a domicile has taken vague shape in my mind to the music of the stream. When contours come you

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will see it. Meantime, to you my affection.

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“This structure might serve to indicate that the sense

of shelter…has no limitations as to form except the materials used and the methods by which they are

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employed for what purpose.

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“Looking back years later at what he had created

there, in this enchanted glen, Wright said, ‘Fallingwater is a great blessing – one of the great blessings to be experienced here on earth. I think that nothing yet ever equaled the coordination, sympathetic expression of the great principle of repose, where forest and stream and rock and all the elements of structure are combined so quietly that really you listen not to any noise whatsoever, although the music of the stream is there. But you listen to Fallingwater

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the way you listen to the quiet of the country.’

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Above: Desk and view Left: Living Room

Side elevation Front elevation

Adam Reed Tucker

Architectural LEGO Artist

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“Bring out the nature of the materials, let their nature intimately into your scheme ... Reveal the nature of the wood, plaster, brick or stone in your designs, they are all by nature friendly and beautiful.”

– Frank Lloyd Wright, 1908

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“By organic architecture I mean an architecture that develops from within outward in harmony with the conditions of its being, as distinguished from one that is applied from without.”

– Frank Lloyd Wright, 1914

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