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Fallingwater is famous; from all over the world many thousands of visitors come each year to its remote site. What draws them?--a most unusual house in an exceptionally picturesque setting and something more, a reputation. 1
Fallingwater has provided enjoyment to many people over the years; as a stimulating weekend retreat for the Kaufmann family and their friends, as a source of pride to the architect and his associates, and now--cared for by the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy--as an exceptional experience for visitors from near and far....
When Wright came to the site he appreciated the powerful sound of the falls, the vitality of the young forest, the dramatic rock ledges and boulders; these were elements to be interwoven with the serenely soaring spaces of his structure. But Wright's insight penetrated more deeply. He understood that people were creatures of nature, hence an architecture which conformed to nature would conform to what was basic in people. For example, although all of Fallingwater is opened by broad bands of windows, people inside are sheltered as in a deep cave, secure in the sense of hill behind them. Their attention is directed toward the outside by low ceilings; no lordly hall sets the tone but, instead, the luminous textures of the woodland, rhythmically enframed. The materials of the structure blend with the colorings of rocks and trees, while occasional accents are provided by bright furnishings, like wildflowers or birds outside. The paths within the house, stairs and passages, meander without formality or urgency, and the house hardly has a main entrance; there are many ways in and out. Sociability and privacy are both available, as are the comforts of home and the adventures of the seasons. So people are cosseted in to relaxing, into exploring the enjoyment of a life refreshed in nature. Visitors, too, in due measure experience Wright's architecture as an expansion of living. 2
Fallingwater opened a new chapter in American architecture, and is perhaps rightly considered Wright's greatest work, for he was first and foremost an architect of houses. In its careful yet startling integration of stone walls anchored to the bedrock and modern reinforced concrete terraces hovering in space, Connors states that Fallingwater may be understood as 'one of the great critiques of the modern movement in architecture, and simultaneously one of its masterpieces'. Yet we cannot help feeling that there is more to this design than even that; this is an architecture that seizes our imagination, letting us see space and habitation in ways that seem new, but which we simultaneously feel to be ancient, somehow fundamental to our human nature. 3
In 1936, even before it was finished, knowledgeable people talked about this new work of Frank Lloyd Wright....
After a time a consensus arose that Wright had created a masterwork that appealed not only to professionals but to the public generally. Fallingwater was not much like the earlier architecture that had made Wright famous; it was just as distant from the avant-garde styles of the 1930s, and surely unlike any popular "dream house." Yet now that Fallingwater has been tested by half-a-century of the widest exposure, one can say that it marks a high point in Wright's vast oeuvre, in American architecture, in the architecture of this century, and possibly in all architecture. 4
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Fallingwater is a great blessing - one of the great blessings to be experienced here on earth. I think nothing yet ever equalled the coordination, sympathic expression of the great principle of repose where forest and stream and rock and all the elements of structure are combined so quietly that really you listen not to any noise whatsoever although the music of the stream is there. But you listen to Fallingwater the way you listen to the quiet of the country .........
Frank Lloyd Wright
What the building achieves with perhaps more drama than any other single private residence is the placement of man in relation to nature. This important aspect of man and the landscape was deeply rooted in Wright. Fallingwater is famous the world over, principally as it is seen in photographs, from below the cascades looking up towards the cantilevered balconies and terraces (see picture above).
We can see from this picture on the left that what Wright had done to this house is putting the occupants in a close relationship to the glen, the trees, the foliage and wild flowers. Wherever one is within the building, the glory of the natural surrounding is accentuated, brought in, and made a component part of daily life.
The main floor affords views in three directions, with terraces leading out in two: one terrace opens upstream, the other projects over the rocks and cascades. Eagallery-bedroom on the third level have access, likewise, to yet another outdoor terrace. All the vertical elements of the house are constructed of native stone, with "stick-outs" or slightly ch bedroom on the level above has its own terrace, and the study and projected stones to give a more sculptural quality to the stone masses.
All horizontal elements are poured concrete. The floors throughout are paved in stone, the same as
the walls, and the woodwork is a sap grain walnut, executed at an extremely fine level of
craftsmanship. A semi-circular covered walk joins the main house to the guest house further up the hill.
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