Frank Lloyd Wright Falling Water Essay

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), an American architect, designed Fallingwater in 1935 and it was built from 1936 to 1938. In 1939, a guest room was added. Fallingwater is located in Bear Run Nature Reserve in Mill Run, Pennsylvania. It sits on a 30 foot waterfall. Fallingwater was commissioned by Edgar Kaufmann to be used as a weekend home. Kaufmann’s family had used the waterfall as a retreat for 15 years and wanted Wright to design a house across from the waterfall. Instead Wright incorporated the design of the house with the waterfall. Wright did not want the Kaufmanns to just see the waterfall, he wanted them to live with the waterfall. This extraordinary prairie style house fuses the relationship between architecture and nature. Wright was influenced by Japanese architecture and this was his inspiration for Fallingwater. He wanted to create harmony between nature and the home. The design revolved around the fireplace as Wright considered it the gathering place for the family. The hearth was

The floor of the main level is stone. As you enter the main level you walk into the living area. The living area has walls of glass so that you may view the forest and stone masonry. By the music room is the stairway of water. You can open a hatch and to stairs that lead you down to the water. The stairs are suspended over the water. When the hatch is open, sounds from the waterfall and nature fill the area. As you enter the dining room you see the fireplace and beside it the wine kettle, a red circular container with hinges. Beverages can be placed in the kettle and it put over the fire to warm them. “It is about 22 inches in diameter, and it was fashioned…from cast iron three-eighths of an inch thick.” To the left of the fireplace is the kitchen and to the right is a door that leads to a terrace and stairs to the son’s third-floor