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Fallingwater photo:
Fallingwater at Mill Run, Pennsylvania
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Frank Lloyd Wright photo: Public Domain
Frank Lloyd Wright in 1954
By New York World-Telegram and the Sun staff photographer: Al Ravenna - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs divisionunder the digital ID cph.3c16657.This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4096246
Sauce (top): Susan Goldman Rubin, Frank Lloyd Wright (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1994), pp. 53, 67-68. Anecdote retold in my own words to avoid plagiarism.
Sauce (bottom): Francis A. Davis, Frank Lloyd Wright: Maverick Architect (Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publications Company, 1996), p. 87. Anecdote retold in my own words to avoid plagiarism.
“Frank Lloyd Wright Sr. (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator. He designed more than 1,000 structures over a creative period of 70 years. Wright played a key role in the architectural movements of the twentieth century, influencing architects worldwide through his works and mentoring hundreds of apprentices in his Taliesin Fellowship. Wright believed in designing in harmony with humanity and the environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture. This philosophy was exemplified in Fallingwater (1935), which has been called ‘the best all-time work of American architecture’.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lloyd_Wright
“Fallingwater is a house designed by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935. Situated in the Mill Run section of Stewart township, in the Laurel Highlands of southwest Pennsylvania, about 70 miles (110 km) southeast of Pittsburgh in the United States, it is built partly over a waterfall on the Bear Run river. The house was designed to serve as a weekend retreat for Liliane and Edgar J. Kaufmann, the owner of Pittsburgh’s Kaufmann’s Department Store.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallingwater
mrromero
Nakatomi Plaza's 30th floor was modeled after Fallingwater
daguq
That house is Frank Lloyd Wrong.
Lostarchitorture
Due to all the problems and leaks this place has suffered over the years, my architecture history professor called Fallingwater "Rising Mildew"
TheAmazingSeaMonkey
I’d have to pee so much in that house
RElGNMAN
KittenInside
Falling Water is an great example of form over function. It had to be saved shortly after construction due to a major design fault.
Suovetaurilia
Yeah, he was a great artist, not a great engineer
marthafarquar
That was after the contractor, Walter Hall, took one look at the design and doubled the amount of steelwork but didn't tell the client or architect as FLR had already thrown a hissy fit and threatened to cancel the project after the design was criticised in a structural engineers report.