The Fallingwater House

Russel Wright is an American industrial designer and architect that lived during the early to mid twentieth century. Many of Wright’s ideas and designs were considered to modern at time, drawing influences from not only ingenious designers like Frank Lloyd Wright but nature as well. Wright’s influences would lead him to create a design style unlike any at the time; a style that would eventually become almost standard in many homes in the United States. The designer Russel Wright and his wife, Mary Wright together published a guidebook known as Guide to Easier Living. In it contains numerous suggestions and thoughts on home architecture, interior design, as well as product design. Many of the thoughts and suggestions conveyed in the book can be seen in present-day design and architecture. Wright’s book also laid the groundwork for his home, Dragon Rock, which of itself possesses elements of design that are seen in today’s homes. Russel Wright’s Guide to Easier Living is clearly a response to interior design at the time; containing numerous design ideas, Wrights guide influences Wright’s own future works.

Seeing aquatic blue lake house and the large, screened in, cedar wood deck reminds me of the time my mother, stepfather, and I would invite our local friends over. We would watch the South Carolina Gamecocks play football and grill out on the large, black, charcoal grill that sat in front of the deck itself. The house was perfect; neither too big nor too small. Though it was built with wood painted with the distinct blue, it stood on a brick foundation.

Tadao Ando is a Japanese self-taught architect who was highly regarded for his unparalleled work with concrete, sensitive treatment of light and strong engagement with nature which was best exemplified by Azuma House. “You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see”. On the other hand, Frank Llyord Wright also known as Frank Lincoln Wright, was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator who designed more than 1,000 structures, 532 of which were completed. He believed in designing structures that were in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture. This philosophy was best exemplified by Falling Water (1935) where his famous dictum takes a turn “No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and

The Gamble House is an excellent example to mark the pinnacle of the American Arts and Crafts Style or the Craftsman style in America. The house and furnishings were built for a very wealthy couple, David and Mary Gamble of the Proctor & Gamble Company entirely by Charles and Henry Greene with specific attention to detail and craftsmanship. The brothers were inspired by the concept of a total work of art, which was the primary focus during the Arts and

Slide 3: Thesis While the report serves as an updated version to Ash Lawn-Highland’s Historic Structures Report, it examines in detail the architectural and historical aspects of the structure, which also provides a full account of the structure’s repairs and proposed work.

In the book “The House at Sugar Beach”, Helene Cooper’s african childhood was filled with nothing but happiness and wealth. Helene and her family lived in a three story mansion by the sea with 22 rooms, filled with servants, amazing cars, and everything you could imagine. They also had a villa in Spain and a farmhouse on the other side of the country. Helene is a descendant of two Liberian dynasties. Since her ancestors were one of the reasons why Liberia got it’s independence the family was so well respected, Helene herself knew not to disrespect her parents. “I knew not to argue with Daddy. He sat at the top of the Sugar Beach hierarchy, with Mommee. Together, John Lewis Cooper JR. and Calista Esmeralda Cooper represented three Liberian

The corner stone on the front of this church indicates the principal building of Red Star was laid in the fifties?

Generally, waterfalls are unique structures in terms of environmental factors since they create their own ecosystems. Waterfalls also create local winds due to falling water and house species of special plants that can only grow behind the waterfall in a specific microclimate and with certain levels of moisture. Waterfalls have a unique ecology and many organisms and animals choose to reproduce behind waterfalls because they provide a barrier of protection from predators. The group observed Latourell Falls and Later Multnomah Falls from a distance and were able to see the rising wind and mist coming from the base of the

Today we remodel our sod house. We are buting 12-inches wide and 4-inches thick brick 25 on the house. The walls are going to be 2 1/2-ft thick and 3 1/2 feet high 26. Next the door frame itis made out of wood 27. The roof is made of sawed wood. The roof was made up of 2x6s for a ridge post, 2x4s for rafters, and wood sheathing nailed over the rafters 28. That is how we made the house now it  is not so cramped in here. My dad feels like he’s on top of the world 29.

Many of those buildings were being developed in his mind while he was growing up and spending summers on his uncle’s farm. It was during this time that he developed his love for Nature, to be a part of it. His love for Nature is dominant in his earlier works dubbed the “Prairie Houses”, but can also been seen in his later works such as Johnson Wax and the Guggenheim Museum. When Frank Lloyd Wright was just sixty-eight years old, he was commissioned to design a house for Edgar Kaufmann. Wright and Kaufmann went to the property to survey the location for the house. Kaufmann liked to spend time at the water falls on his land so that is where Wright decided to build it. Wright figured if Nature could place the boulders over a waterfall, than he could build a house over one. It took Wright only three hours to draw the plans for the house. The house consists basically of concrete slabs balanced on the boulders above the stream, and the walls are slabs of the natural rock surrounding the house. The house includes a pool that is built under the house and is fed by the passing stream. Every aspect of the house embraces the Nature that it co-exists with, and the house appears to fade into its surroundings.

In this picture, Victorian style house stands alone in the field. A railroad track cuts through the foreground. There is a bare sky behind the house with no secondary objects in the immediate surroundings of the building. this enables us to keenly focus on the articulation of the building and its relationship with its environment.

In 1887, Wright worked with Louis Sullivan in Chicago, a well-known architect of the time who also wanted to separate from European style, until 1893. After Wright had stopped working with Sullivan’s firm, he made what is considered his first masterpiece, his home in Oak Park, Illinois known as the Frank Lloyd Wright home and studio. This structure was also his first work designed with his “Prairie” style. This style involved single-story homes with many horizontal lines, spacious living areas, and many casement windows. They were built with nearby materials and the wood used was not painted, expressing natural beauty. Wright later designed many more of his works in this styles, such as the Robie House and Unity Temple. In later years, he designed more well-known buildings, such as Taliesin, his home in Wisconsin, and Fallingwater, a building built on a waterfall in Pennsylvania. Later, he built public buildings, for instance, the Monona Terrace Civic Center, the SC Johnson Wax Administration, and the Guggenheim Museum. Wright also designed Tokyo’s Imperial Hotel in 1915, which he stated was “earthquake-proof” and, later, ended up being the only building involved in the 1923 Japanese earthquake to remain unscathed. Wright had also designed Usonian houses, which were the predecessors of today’s ranch-style homes. These homes had natural heating and cooling, and included carports, which were invented by Wright. All in all, Wright designed more than 1,100 structures. Frank Lloyd Wright died on April 9th, 1959, at age 91.

When you enter this Guice home in West Linn, Oregon, the very first thing you might discover is color: huge, intense splashes of poppy-pink on umbrellas, chair cushions, blankets, seat covers, and toss pillows. However that's far from the only aesthetically wonderful aspect in this compact landscape by Oregon's Paradise Restored. There's far more to be appreciated right here: warm wood enhances deck and pathway, latticework personal privacy fence, and a partial-shade pergola. And the stonework? Merely art. It comprises walls of a welcoming fire pit, rough stones whose variegated surface areas reflect and shine color and light. It likewise comprises an outdoor patio with

“As soon as Wright had chosen the area on which the house would be built, there was a clear issue building there. The situation was that the northern levee of Bear Run was too narrow to bestow a foundation for a house that would be built to his standards” (Toker, 39, Fallingwater Rising: America's most extraordinary house). Apart from this issue, the Kaufmann’s requirements needed to be achieved due to the fact that they had planned to have large numbers of people over and therefore it was required that the house be larger than the available plot size. In addition, Mr. and Mrs. Kaufmann had asked to have separate bedrooms including another for their oldest son and a supplementary room for guests. Wright's answer to the issue of space was birthed when he had decided to include a cantilevered structure. Smith (320) outlined that “the systemic design for Fallingwater was carried out by Wright in consortium with engineers

The Falling Water House that was built by Frank Lloyd Wright is an embodiment of organic architecture. It has a stone face that was the same tonal feeling of the rock that surrounds the building. There is a feeling that is inspired in the