Fallingwater
Title
Fallingwater
Publisher
Lawrence Technological University
Date Created
July 31, 2015
Alternative Title or Name
Edgar & Liliane Kaufmann home
Creator
Wright, Frank Lloyd
Creator2
O’Connor, Thomas (photograph)
Creator Nationality
American
Work Type
Single Built Works
Date
May, 1977
Work Location
Pennsylvania (state)
Mill Run (inhabited place)
Style/Period
Modern (styles and periods)
Subject
houses
organic architecture
streams
Description
Detail view lower level of house and stream at Fallingwater, the home of Edgar and Liliane Kaufmann in Mill Run, Pennsylvania, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and completed in 1939. "...[Wright] sends out free-floating platforms audaciously over a small waterfall and anchors them in the natural rock. Something of the prairie house is here still; and we might also detect a grudging recognition of the International Style in the interlocking geometry of the planes and the flat, textureless surface of the main shelves. But the house is thoroughly fused with its site and, inside, the rough stone walls and the flagged floors are of an elemental ruggedness."--Spiro Kostof. A History of Architecture, Settings and Rituals.
Material/Medium
concrete
stone (worked rock)
Measurements
main house: 5,330 square feet
Reproduction Type
jpeg
Copyright Statement
©2013 Lawrence Technological University. These images may be used for personal or educational purposes. They are not available for commercial purposes without the explicit permission of LTU.
ID Number
LTU-TO-915
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