FALLING WATER

CONCRETE AND ROUGH STONES ON FRANK LLYOD WRIGHT’S KAUFMAN HOUSE

FRANK LLYOD WRIGHT
One of the founders of MODERN
ARCHITECTURE in North America, Frank
Llyod Wright embraced the use of new
technology, materials and engineering to
create some of 20th century’s most
influential and iconic buildings.

During a long and productive career

spanning 70 years he designed over 1,000
buildings of which over 400 were built.
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This project is a unique example of a modern ORGANIC
ARCHITECTURE which was design by Architect Frank
Llyod Wright in 1934 in rural Pennsylvania, 80 meters
southeast of Pittsburgh.

ORGANIC ARCHITECTURE is a philosophy of architecture

which promotes harmony between human habitation
and the natural world through design approaches so will
integrated with its site that buildings, furnishings, and
surroundings become part of a unified, interrelated
composition. Set in a very unusual location, the ideas
implicit in the house are highly dramatic and original
combination of modern technology within natural setting.
The house is located on a cliff with a
waterfall. It is a weekend house. It consist
of levels of living areas. Both living areas
extend up to the waterfall and give a good
view of the surrounding countryside.

The entrance drive leads to the main living

room, which extends in different directions
in the ground floor. A staircase leads
directly to the waterfall. Terraces,
balconies, kitchen and dining area all
extend in different directions. The bed
room on the second floor opens on the
terrace, which is cantilevered more than
the terrace of the first floor.
The second floor is much smaller than
the first and has only one bedroom
with an adjoining roof terrace. All the
three floor plans form a pattern in
such a way that they are arranged
round the single vertical element,
which is the natural stone tower-the
staircase. The foot of the staircase is
which supported ground floor and the
slope of the hill the base of the
building is made of natural stone, the
individual stories are made up of
reinforced concrete, and the walls of
glass.
The building literally combines:

• Nature and Architecture

• The organic and the geometric
• Natural stone and concrete
• Exterior and interior
• Nature and space

What Frank Llyod Wright achieved in this

building was to place its occupants in a close
relationship to the surrounding beauty – the
trees, the foliage and the wild flowers.
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