As humans have developed so has the improvement of the abodes they called home. Humans strived to create shelters originally for safety and warmth, but as they spread across the planet and grew intellectually, socially, and industrially the idea of the house changed to also mean an extension of the family. What someone does or does not do to their house’s exterior, landscape, and interior was a subtle, or sometimes blunt, statement about the family that resided there. As the need to express themselves in their homes grew several careers came forth, in order to meet the demand, one of these was called architecture. One of the significantly prominent building designs of twentieth century architecture was Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater, which
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The Kaufmann family consisted of Mr. Edgar J. Kaufmann, Mrs. Liliane S. Kaufmann and their son Edgar Kaufmann junior (Appendix 3). Edgar Kaufmann junior, introduced Frank Lloyd Wright’s works to his parents and the rest as they say was history (Waggoner). Of course the Kaufmann family had a particular idea of what they wanted than what Wright conjured up. The Kaufmann’s were thinking about a “year-round weekend house, with modern conveniences, away from the highway and closer to the waterfalls [Bear Run], where they liked to go sunning bathing and picnicking,” their preferred summer spot (Hoffmann). In 1935 Wright designed Fallingwater and presented his plans to the Kaufmann family (Appendix 4). The actual construction went from 1936 to 1938, which used 5,330 square feet, and later on a guesthouse was assembled in 1939, which used 1,700 square feet (Fallingwater). The total cost of the house’s construction was $155,000. If someone tried to replicate Fallingwater today they would spend over two million dollars and would most likely not reach the magnificence of Fallingwater. Mr. Kaufmann senior had become more than a client during this process, he became a patron. Except for a couple projects, many of Wright’s and his apprentices at the Taliesin Fellowship projects happening at this time; like the office, the weekend house, also known as Fallingwater, …show more content…
Fallingwater was a “flowering of Wright’s mature theories of organic architecture” and sharpened by the new found vitality and blazing passion that the interactions with the Kaufmann family helped flame (Lind). Fallingwater was designed with a unique asymmetrical and rather organic flair that despite not being perfectly balanced and symmetrical like the Taj Malal it still blends with the natural environment surrounding it seamlessly. Fallingwater looks more like a “living thing sprouting out of the rocks” than an actual building (Toker). Franklin Toker seemed to describe the impact of Fallingwater the most accurately. Toker stated that, “We realize when we see the brooding concrete masses alternating with hand-hewn stone walls that it is not the modernity but the antiquity – even the eternity – of Fallingwater that enthralls us. The rocks that are so much a part of the house will be there forever. The water that animates it will never stop following.” Though the “light ochre concrete and the Cherokee red steel” accentuated as well as blended the building into the boulders surrounding it the most important part of the building is the structure or more accurately the “cantilevered
The Kaufmann family consisted of Mr. Edgar J. Kaufmann, Mrs. Liliane S. Kaufmann and their son Edgar Kaufmann junior (Appendix 3). Edgar Kaufmann junior, introduced Frank Lloyd Wright’s works to his parents and the rest as they say was history (Waggoner). Of course the Kaufmann family had a particular idea of what they wanted than what Wright conjured up. The Kaufmann’s were thinking about a “year-round weekend house, with modern conveniences, away from the highway and closer to the waterfalls [Bear Run], where they liked to go sunning bathing and picnicking,” their preferred summer spot (Hoffmann). In 1935 Wright designed Fallingwater and presented his plans to the Kaufmann family (Appendix 4). The actual construction went from 1936 to 1938, which used 5,330 square feet, and later on a guesthouse was assembled in 1939, which used 1,700 square feet (Fallingwater). The total cost of the house’s construction was $155,000. If someone tried to replicate Fallingwater today they would spend over two million dollars and would most likely not reach the magnificence of Fallingwater. Mr. Kaufmann senior had become more than a client during this process, he became a patron. Except for a couple projects, many of Wright’s and his apprentices at the Taliesin Fellowship projects happening at this time; like the office, the weekend house, also known as Fallingwater, …show more content…
Fallingwater was a “flowering of Wright’s mature theories of organic architecture” and sharpened by the new found vitality and blazing passion that the interactions with the Kaufmann family helped flame (Lind). Fallingwater was designed with a unique asymmetrical and rather organic flair that despite not being perfectly balanced and symmetrical like the Taj Malal it still blends with the natural environment surrounding it seamlessly. Fallingwater looks more like a “living thing sprouting out of the rocks” than an actual building (Toker). Franklin Toker seemed to describe the impact of Fallingwater the most accurately. Toker stated that, “We realize when we see the brooding concrete masses alternating with hand-hewn stone walls that it is not the modernity but the antiquity – even the eternity – of Fallingwater that enthralls us. The rocks that are so much a part of the house will be there forever. The water that animates it will never stop following.” Though the “light ochre concrete and the Cherokee red steel” accentuated as well as blended the building into the boulders surrounding it the most important part of the building is the structure or more accurately the “cantilevered