Fallingwater: Kaufmann Residence

Bear Run, Pennsylvania, 1935,

Frank Lloyd Wright

Fallingwater or Kaufmann Residence

a house designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935 in

rural southwestern Pennsylvania, 50 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. The
home was built partly over a waterfall on Bear Run in the Mill Run
section of Stewart Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in the
Laurel Highlands of the Allegheny Mountains.

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Fallingwater is one of the most inventive houses of Frank Lloyd
Wright's long career and one of the twentieth century's most
celebrated icons.

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Placed above a waterfall in a deep ravine known as Bear Run, its
horizontal cantilevered floors and terraces soar free of apparent
support above the cascades and pools of the stream.

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Walls are avoided almost entirely, the sense of shelter provided by the
overhangs and by screen-like windows detailed to enhance the
buildings vertical and horizontal rhythms.

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Within the house, the effects of dappled light, surrounding foliage and
tumbling water exemplify Wright's attitudes towards integrating
architecture and nature.

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 Presentation by V.Valogianni

http://valogianni.blogspot.com/

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