Frank Lloyd Wright (FLW) - Falling Water, Bear Run, PA 1935-37 AD - Printable Version

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Frank Lloyd Wright (FLW) - Falling Water, Bear Run, PA 1935-37 AD - vijay kasliwal - 08-26-2014

Falling Water, Bear Run, PA 1935-37 AD
Organic architecture strives to integrate space into a unified whole. Frank Lloyd Wright was not concerned with architectural style, because he believed that every building should grow naturally from its environment.

Planes differentiated and accentuated by changes in colour, texture and material - highlights scale.
Veritcal Elements constructed in native stone gives a sculptural quality though at the same still highlighting the horizontal.

The philosophy grew from the ideas of Frank Lloyd Wright's mentor, Louis Sullivan, who believed that "form follows function."

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RE: Frank Lloyd Wright (FLW) - Falling Water, Bear Run, PA 1935-37 AD - shivani - 08-26-2014

Falling Water
Wright described it as the principle of repose where forest, stream, rock and all elements of structure are combined quietly.

Features : Clustered organization around central core.

Cantilevers extend living areas with the surrounding landscape.

Concrete slabs exaggerate horizontal floor and roof planescantilever from a central core.

Pfeiffer quotes Wright as "I had an idea that the horizontal planes in buildings belong to the ground".

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RE: Frank Lloyd Wright (FLW) - Falling Water, Bear Run, PA 1935-37 AD - vijay kasliwal - 08-26-2014

Falling Water Interior

Characterized by - Strong visual accent.
Hearth symbolic - comfort

Detail draws eye to ceiling - emphasize the horizontal and change in form.

Continuation of material in interior harmonises both inside and out.

Attempt to blur the distinction between the inside and exterior.

Simple interior encourages the incorporation ot hte outdoors as part of the overall design.

Repetition of form in furniture continues to accentuate the horizontal.

Open space emhasizes the scale of room

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