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Fallingwater

Mill Run, Pennsylvania

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The History of Fallingwater

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Contents

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

History of Fallingwater

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

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

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

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

LEGO

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

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

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

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

[1]

”

“The famous view of the house, taken from downstream

looking up to the water cascades and under the

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

trees, and over the stream and waterfalls below.

[2]

”

“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

woodland setting.

[3]

”

“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

serenity which marks all great works of art.

[4]

”

Left: Elevation and Floor Plan

Above: Scaf folding

Facts from the Project

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

Classication:

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

Year:

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

Construction Type:

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

with Limestone Fascia

Square Feet:

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

Original Cost:

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

Top right: Scaffolding

Bottom left: Construction workers

Bottom right: Construction

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

ages for all of Man.

[5]

”

“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

will see it. Meantime, to you my affection.

[6]

”

“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

employed for what purpose.

[7]

”

“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

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

[8]

”

Above: Desk and view

Left: Living Room

Planview

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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