It is chock full of color photographs, drawings, layouts and stories from the owner's son.ģ. Stunning! This is a classic coffee table book that will endure for decades. This is the be all, end all of texts on this masterpiece by the late F.L.W.Ģ. He is able to explain the intentions of architect and client, and writes with both feeling and critical knowledge, having lived in and with the masterpiece all his life. Kaufmann is the distinguished architectural historian who trained with Wright and is the son of the clients for Fallingwater, the most famous modern house in America. Heinz (Photographers).Įditorial Review from Library Journal (excerpt): An engaging, intimate, sumptuous appreciation of Wright's 1936 house in Bear Run, Pennsylvania. Please link to this page's updated (and permanent) web address:įallingwater from Crist-bal Vila on Vimeo.įallingwater: A Frank Lloyd Wright Country House by Edgar Kaufmann, Jr. Fallingwater was not much like the earlier architecture that had made Wright famous it was just as distant from the avant-garde styles of the 1930s, and surely like any popular "dream house." Yet now that Fallingwater has been tested by half-a-century of the widest exposure, one can say that it marks a high point in Wright's vast oeuvre, in American architecture, in the architecture of this century, and possibly in all architecture.
In 1936, even before it was finished, knowledgeable people talked about this new work of Frank Lloyd Wright.Īfter a time a consensus arose that Wright had created a masterwork that appealed not only to professionals but to the public generally. What draws them? - a most unusual house in an exceptionally picturesque setting and something more, a reputation. 2įallingwater is famous from all over the world many thousands of visitors come each year to its remote site. Yet we cannot help feeling that there is more to this design than even that this is an architecture that seizes our imagination, letting us see space and habitation in ways that seem new, but which we simultaneously feel to be ancient, somehow fundamental to our human nature. In its careful yet startling integration of stone walls anchored to the bedrock and modern reinforced concrete terraces hovering in space, Connors states that Fallingwater may be understood as 'one of the great critiques of the modern movement in architecture, and simultaneously one of its masterpieces'. You'll find descriptions and information about various parts of the house over the waterfall designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, one of the foremost architects of all time.įallingwater opened a new chapter in American architecture, and is perhaps rightly considered Wright's greatest work, for he was first and foremost an architect of houses. Take a virtual tour of Fallingwater by visiting the Fallingwater pictures pages. Visitors, too, in due measure experience Wright's architecture as an expansion of living. So people are cosseted in to relaxing, into exploring the enjoyment of a life refreshed in nature. Sociability and privacy are both available, as are the comforts of home and the adventures of the seasons. The paths within the house, stairs and passages, meander without formality or urgency, and the house hardly has a main entrance there are many ways in and out. The materials of the structure blend with the colorings of rocks and trees, while occasional accents are provided by bright furnishings, like wildflowers or birds outside. Their attention is directed toward the outside by low ceilings no lordly hall sets the tone but, instead, the luminous textures of the woodland, rhythmically enframed.
For example, although all of Fallingwater is opened by broad bands of windows, people inside are sheltered as in a deep cave, secure in the sense of hill behind them. He understood that people were creatures of nature, hence an architecture which conformed to nature would conform to what was basic in people. But Wright's insight penetrated more deeply. When Wright came to the site he appreciated the powerful sound of the falls, the vitality of the young forest, the dramatic rock ledges and boulders these were elements to be interwoven with the serenely soaring spaces of his structure. Fallingwater has provided enjoyment to many people over the years as a stimulating weekend retreat for the Kaufmann family and their friends, as a source of pride to the architect and his associates, and now - cared for by the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy - as an exceptional experience for visitors from near and far.
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