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Fallingwater: Kaufmann Residence

Bear Run, Pennsylvania, 1935,

Frank Lloyd Wright

Fallingwater or Kaufmann Residence

a house designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935 in

rural southwestern Pennsylvania, 50 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. The

home was built partly over a waterfall on Bear Run in the Mill Run

section of Stewart Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in the

Laurel Highlands of the Allegheny Mountains.

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Fallingwater is one of the most inventive houses of Frank Lloyd

Wright's long career and one of the twentieth century's most

celebrated icons.

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Placed above a waterfall in a deep ravine known as Bear Run, its

horizontal cantilevered floors and terraces soar free of apparent

support above the cascades and pools of the stream.

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Walls are avoided almost entirely, the sense of shelter provided by the

overhangs and by screen-like windows detailed to enhance the

buildings vertical and horizontal rhythms.

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Within the house, the effects of dappled light, surrounding foliage and

tumbling water exemplify Wright's attitudes towards integrating

architecture and nature.

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Presentation by V.Valogianni

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