"Falling Water"
Hause for Edgar J. Kaufmann,
Bear Run, Pennsylvania, 1935-1939
Frank Lloyd Wright
Falling water is one of the most famous building of Frank Lloyd Wright. The relation with the landscape is amazing. Flying horizantal flats makes the mass dynamic just like the water falling down. It has great harmony with the nature.
The main floor affords views in three directions, with a terrace openning upstream, and the other projecting over the rocks and cascades.Each bedroom on the on the level above has its own terrace.All the vertical elements of the house are constructed of native stone, with stick outs or slightly projected
stones to give more sculptursl quality to the stone masses. All horizontal elements are poured concrete. The floors through out are paved in stone, the same as the walls.
"Fallingwater is a great blessing - one of the great blessing to be experienced here on earth. I think nothing yet ever equalled the coordination, synpathic expression of the great principle of repose wehere forest and stream and rock and all the elements of structure are combined so quitly that really you listen not to any noise what so ever although the music of the stream is here. But you listen to Fallingwater the way you listen to the quiet of the country..." Frank Lloyd Wright
" Once organic characters is achieved in the work of art, that work is forever, like sun, moon and stars, greatness, flowers and grass it is and stays on while and where ever man is fly." Frank Lloyd Wright
