Frank Lloyd Wright Falling Water Essay

American Architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed more than 1,000 projects, which resulted in more than 500 completed works. His work includes original and innovative examples of many different buildings. Wright promoted organic architecture since author Kruft mentioned that one of Wright's strongest beliefs is "a house should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings…’’ His most famous building Falling Water, illustrates this idea. One out of the many ways Wright depicted the ideas of simplicity and complexity was the juxtaposing of his work with nature. This essay would further explore how Wright accomplished to portray these ideas in the building Falling Water and how both come together to produce

For the main structure, Wright went for simplicity and only used four materials; glass, reinforced concrete, sandstone and steel. This supported his famous quote, ‘’Less is only more where more is no good’’. Glass allowed the free flow of the exterior and interior. Glass showed reflective capabilities creating mirror like surfaces of a calm pool of water. Wright used pale ochre coloured concrete to match the backs of fallen rhododendron leaves of surrounding trees. The stones were put in a rough, shifting manner so they look like rock coming right from the ground. Wright decided to have the steel painted red to remind people of the iron ore and also of the flaming method used to create steel. For the interior, Wright went for complexity and used flagstone floors alongside extensive wood. He placed a boulder in the fireplace of the living room and surrounded another room by a living, mature tree. Through the simplicity uses of local materials like stone and colours of materials and complexity like the position of boulders, physical qualities and purposes behind the material colours all helped echo natural forms and textures of the surrounding, embroiling the house into the landscape in multiple