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Olgivanna Wright regarded Fallingwater as "the most dramatic home my husband designed", [414] saying that the house was the only Wright–designed building that many people could name. [415] Nearly two decades after the house's completion, The Baltimore Sun described Fallingwater as "a handsome and daring house" in its own way but a "monumental ...
Wright created the ultimate masterpiece of organic architecture, Fallingwater, which best demonstrates his organic architecture philosophy: the harmonious union of art and nature. Fallingwater [1] is the residence Wright designed for the Kaufmann family in rural Pennsylvania. Wright had many choices to locate a home on this large site but chose ...
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The Fallingwater house, designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright, is located on this stream at the locality known as Mill Run. [7] Bear Run is inside the Bear Run Nature Reserve, protected by the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy. [8] Bear Run is a designated Pennsylvania Scenic River. [9]
Fallingwater is described as a place that “effectively unites architecture and nature as one” (Laseau and Tice, 1992, 94). [25] The concrete and limestone exterior seamlessly blends into the environment surrounding, this naturalistic aesthetic extends inside through house using stone floors.
Gregor's wife Elizabeth was particularly fond of Wright's Fallingwater, so when the couple wanted to build their own house in 1940, they commissioned Wright to design this house. The site was a unique lot, densely wooded, with no level ground, which allowed Wright to explore and refine his design for a home on sloping ground.
Eight of Wright's buildings – Fallingwater, the Guggenheim Museum, the Hollyhock House, the Jacobs House, the Robie House, Taliesin, Taliesin West, and the Unity Temple – were inscribed on the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites under the title The 20th-century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright in July 2019. UNESCO stated that these ...
Between 1928 and 1935, he built only two buildings: a hotel near Chandler, Arizona, and the most famous of all his residences, Fallingwater (1934–37), a vacation house in Pennsylvania for Edgar J. Kaufman. Fallingwater is a remarkable structure of concrete slabs suspended over a waterfall, perfectly uniting architecture and nature. [43]