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There’s a special house in rural southwestern Pennsylvania (exactly fifty miles of Pittsburgh) built over a waterfall: Fallingwater. It was designed by American architect George Lloyd Wright between 1936 and 1939. The house instantly became famous: in 1991, in fact, members of the American Institute of Architects named Fallingwater “the best all-time work of American architecture”; in 2007 the house was ranked twenty-ninth on the list of America’s Favourite Architecture according to the AIA and today it is a National Historic Landmark taken in sights by four million people since its opening in 1964.
Fallingwater is one of Wright’s greatest masterpiece both for its dynamism and for its integration with natural sorroundings.
The architect designed the house for his clients, the Kaufmann family, the founder of Kaufmann’s Departmente Store. This family owned some property outside Pittsburgh with a waterfall and cabins. When these had deteriorated to the point that something had to be rebuilt, Mr. Kaufmann contacted Wright. He visited Bear Run, the place where the waterfall is, asking for a surveyof the area around it. It took 9 months in order to turn Edgar’s ideas into a design.
When Kaufmann saw “Fallkingwater” for the first time, he got frightened: he couldn’t be aware of how that house was able to support itself above water!
Wright's desire was to create an organic composition where only two colors were used throughout: ochre for the concrete and red for the steel.
Fallingwater is built on top of a waterfall which flows beneath the house and it's possible to enter it from east. The fireplace heart in the living room is composed of boulders found on the site and upon which the house was built. The floors are waxed and the link with the setting also extends to small details. There are stairways down to the water and a natural boulder drips water in the "bridge" that connects the main house to the guest and servant building. Bedrooms are small, some of these with low ceilings. The active stream is heard constantly throughout the house. The design includes windows and balconies that give a sense of the closeness of the surroundings. On the hillside above Fallingwater there are a four-car garage, servants' quarters and a guest bedroom. Just uphill from it there is a small swimming pool which then overflows to the river below.
In October 1937 the main house was completed. At the time of its construction, the house cost a total of $155,000.
The House on the waterfall, Fallingwater, or Kaufmann House, is a work of the famous Architect of the 20th century, Frank Loyd Wright. Fallingwater is considered one of the most beautiful houses of the world, completely modern. The name of "Fallingwater" comes the owner, is a house designed and built in Bear Run, Pennsylvania (United States of America) is considered one of the masterpieces of modern architecture, is a house built over a waterfall. Originally this house had been designed to be a holiday home, today is a completely modern house built with natural materials over a spectacular waterfall. The realization of the house on the waterfall defines an architecture that promotes harmony between man and nature, the creation of a new system in balance between the built environment and the natural environment. Frank Loyd Wright's Fallingwater house in the design strives to achieve its organic architecture not only with local materials such as stone, but also and especially with modern technologies of expression, which despite its apparent disruptive integrates beautifully with its volumes in area of the site. Fallingwater is a project of 1935, its construction began in 1936, expires in 1939. Frank Lloyd Wright was inspired by the Kaufmann family, who is fascinated by a waterfall on a creek called Bear Run that runs on the mountain forests of western Pennsylvania. So he made a series of floors stacked and cantilevered terraces. The Kaufmann family used the house as holiday home until the fifties, by giving it to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy in 1963, that makes a house museum open to the public with thousands of visitors each year. The house preserves almost all the furniture designed by Wright and numerous works of art by famous artists of the period, as well as tapestries and original books. during production house has had several structural problems due all'inflitrazione water, solved the problems today is an important element of modern architecture.
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Agata said
at 8:56 pm on Dec 14, 2009
The House on the waterfall, Fallingwater, or Kaufmann House, is a work of the famous Architect of the 20th century, Frank Loyd Wright. Fallingwater is considered one of the most beautiful houses of the world, completely modern. The name of "Fallingwater" comes the owner, is a house designed and built in Bear Run, Pennsylvania (United States of America) is considered one of the masterpieces of modern architecture, is a house built over a waterfall. Originally this house had been designed to be a holiday home, today is a completely modern house built with natural materials over a spectacular waterfall. The realization of the house on the waterfall defines an architecture that promotes harmony between man and nature, the creation of a new system in balance between the built environment and the natural environment. Frank Loyd Wright's Fallingwater house in the design strives to achieve its organic architecture not only with local materials such as stone, but also and especially with modern technologies of expression, which despite its apparent disruptive integrates beautifully with its volumes in area of the site. Fallingwater is a project of 1935, its construction began in 1936, expires in 1939. Frank Lloyd Wright was inspired by the Kaufmann family, who is fascinated by a waterfall on a creek called Bear Run that runs on the mountain forests of western Pennsylvania. So he made a series of floors stacked and cantilevered terraces. The Kaufmann family used the house as holiday home until the fifties, by giving it to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy in 1963, that makes a house museum open to the public with thousands of visitors each year. The house preserves almost all the furniture designed by Wright and numerous works of art by famous artists of the period, as well as tapestries and original books. during production house has had several structural problems due all'inflitrazione water, solved the problems today is an important element of modern architecture.
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