Falling Water by Frank Lyold Wright

1. Frank Llyod Wright
FALLIN
G
WATER

2. Frank Lloyd Wright
Name: Frank Lincoln Wright
Born: June 8, 1867
Place of Birth: Richland Center, Wisconsin, U.S.

3. Who is Frank Lloyd Wright?
• the most influential American architect of the 20th century.
• pioneer of the “organic” architecture movement
Organic Architecture
Architecture which promotes
harmony between human habitation
and the natural world through
design approaches

4. Early Life
• Came from a low income family
• Father left his mother after he graduated high school
• Started university at the age of 15
• Worked for the dean to support his tuition fees

5. Career Beginnings
• Worked as a draftsman for Chicago architectural firm
of Adler and Sullivan
• Started working directly under Louis Sullivan (Father
of Skyscrapers)
• Parted ways when he breached his contract by
accepting private commissions
`Form follows function’
~ Louis Sullivan

6. Great Works
Falling Water ( Mill Run, Pennsylvania )

7. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (Manhattan, New York City)

8. The Johnson Wax Headquaters

9. Masterpiece introduction
• Falling water is a house
built over the waterfall
• Completed in 1937
• Stretches over 30 ft
waterfall, captured
everyone’s attention
• The house’s terraces echo
the pattern of the rock
ledges below.

10. Design Concept
• Organic Architecture
- In close relationship to the glen, the
trees, the foliage and wild flowers
- The glory of the natural
surrounding is brought in as part of
the daily life…
- Spaces are designed to bring
nature into the four walls

11. Design Concept
• Horizintal & vertical lines are distinctive features of the building

12. Architecture Style

13. Frank Lloyd Wright told them that he wanted them to live with
the waterfalls, to make them part of their everyday life, and not
just to look at them now and then. Breaking water could
constantly be heard throughout the entire house.

14. -Wright’s admiration for Japanese architecture was in his
inspiration for this house, along with most of his work.

15. -Their attention is directed toward the outside by low ceilings;
no lordly hall sets the tone but, instead, the luminous textures
of the woodland, rhythmically enframed.

16. -columns and beams to form porches, and the plates, the
horizontal elements that stretch as terraces on the waterfall,
were made with concrete.
-Some walls and other vertical elements that define the
spaces of the house, the like the floor, were lined with
native stone from the site.

17. -The powerful sound of the falls, the vitality of the young
forest, the dramatic rock ledges and boulders
-an architecture which conformed to nature would conform to
what was basic in people.

18. Comparison With Other
Works Of The Architect

19. DIFFERENCES
Prairie Style
• He conceived of the Prairie Style which needed fewer, larger rooms which flowed more easily, his antithesis to the rigid Victorian era
architecture.
• Prairie houses were characterized by low, horizontal lines that were meant to blend with the flat landscape around them.
The W.W. Willits house, built in Highland Park, Illinois in 1902, was the first house that
embodied all the elements of the prairie style.
Mature Organic Style
• It was designed according to Wright's desire to place the occupants close to the natural surroundings, with a stream and waterfall running
under part of the building.
• All of a structure’s features from its interior space and exterior shape, to its windows and furniture relates & complement each other as
organic parts of a whole.
Falling Water

20. Usonian Houses
• Designed on a gridded concrete slab that integrated the house's radiant heating system
• Usonian houses most commonly featured flat roofs and were mostly constructed without basements, completing the excision of attics and
basements from houses.
Charles WeltZheimer Residence (1948) .
Significant later works
• The building rises as a warm beige spiral from its site Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
• its interior is similar to the inside of a seashell.
• its unique central geometry was meant to allow visitors to easily experience Guggenheim's collection of non-objective geometric paintings
by taking an elevator to the top level and then viewing artworks by walking down the slowly descending

21. SIMILARITIES
• Organic design like Fallingwater & Usonian Houses.
• Both designs are to relate nature in its architecture among the residents.
Taliesin West House Fallingwaterfall Frank Lloyd Wright’s own home. Arizon, Taliesin.
• Japanese design is often use in his projects.
• Each style brings in Organic to fuse with his cultural Japanese design.
• Both exterior & interior brings in organic and Japanese architecture in its building.

22. SITE PLAN, FLOOR PLANS, ELEVATION AND SECTIONS

23. SITE PLAN
1491 Mill Run Rd, Mill Run, PA 15464, United States
Address :

24. Main House Floor Plan
Main Floor Plan

25. Main House Floor Plan
Second Floor Plan

26. Main House Floor Plan
Third Floor Plan

27. Guest House Floor Plan
Guest House : Main Floor Plan Guest House : Second Floor Plan

28. ELEVATION
South Elevation

29. SECTIONS
North/South Section East/West Section

30. Materials Used For The
Buildings

31. Stone rugosa
Native stones
Concrete

32. WoodsSteel
Stone tiles

33. Final cost-- $155,000 , Included $8,000 architect’s fees, and $4,500 for installed
walnut furnishings

34. Wright's desire to create a unified and organic composition limited
the color palette at Fallingwater. Only two colours were used
throughout, a light ochre for the concrete and his signature Cherokee
red for the steel. PPG Pittsburgh Paints has worked with Fallingwater
to develop eco-friendly paints that withstand the environmental
challenges of the site.