Fallingwater is the name of a very beautiful and modern house that is built over a waterfall. Frank Lloyd Wright, America’s most famous architect, designed the house for his clients, the Kaufmann family. Fallingwater was built between 1936 and 1939. It instantly became famous, and today it is a National Historic Landmark.
It's a house that doesn’t even appear to stand on solid ground, but instead stretches out over a 30’ waterfall. It captured everyone’s imagination when it was on the cover of Time magazine in 1938.
The Kaufmanns lived in the city of Pittsburg. The Kaufmanns lived in the city, but like many other Pittsburghers, they loved to vacation in the mountains southeast of Pittsburgh. They could hike in the forest, swim and fish in the streams, go horseback riding, and do other outdoor activities.
When the Kaufmanns first looked at Wright’s drawings, they were very surprised!
They thought their new house would have a wonderful view of the falls. But instead, with the house right on top of the falls, it was very difficult to see them. But not to hear them! Frank Lloyd Wright told them that he wanted them to live with the waterfalls, to make them part of their everyday life, and not just to look at them now and then.
A set of scale drawings of the house were completed several years ago by L. D. Astorino, an architectural firm located in Pittsburgh. These drawings provide a site plan, detail of each level of the house and the guest house and servant's quarters.
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Sources : www.fallingwater.org/ |
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