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
balconies
trellises
Description
Detail view of balcony and trellis at the home of Edgar and Liliane Kaufmann in Mill Run, Pennsylvania, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and completed in 1939. "The terraces form a complex, overriding horizontal force with their protrusions that liberated space with their risen planes parallel to the ground. In order to support them, Wright worked with engineers Mendel Glickman and William Wesley Peters. Their solution was in the materials. The house took on "a definite masonry form" that related to the site, and for the terraces they decided on a reinforced-concrete structure. It was Wright's first time working with concrete for residences and though at first he did not have much interest in the material, it had the flexibility to be cast into any shape, and when reinforced with steel it gained an extraordinary tensile strength,"--AD Classics: Fallingwater House / Frank Lloyd Wright, by Adelyn Perez, May 14, 2010.
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-916
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