The "Fallingwater" House
for Edgar J. Kaufmann, Bear Run,Pennsylvania, 1935-1939 

 
 
Fallingwater is a great blessing - one of the great blessings to be experienced here on earth. I think nothing yet ever equalled the coordination, sympathic expression of the great principle of repose where forest and stream and rock and all the elements of structure are combined so quietly that really you listen not to any noise whatsoever although the music of the stream is there. But you listen to Fallingwater the way you listen to the quiet of the country ......... 
 
                            Frank Lloyd Wright
 
What the building achieves with perhaps more drama than any other single private residence is the placement of man in relation to nature. This important aspect of man and the landscape was deeply rooted in Wright. Fallingwater is famous the world over, principally as it is seen in photographs, from below the cascades looking up towards the cantilevered balconies and terraces (see picture above).
 
We can see from this picture on the left that what Wright had done to this house is putting the occupants in a close relationship to the glen, the trees, the foliage and wild flowers. Wherever one is within the building, the glory of the natural surrounding is accentuated, brought in, and made a component part of daily life.  
 
The Interiors

Clockwise from top left: 
a) The Kitchen 
b) The Fire-place 
c) The Living Room 
 
 

Here are 2 more additional photos: 

1) A blueprint of Fallingwater  

2) Fallingwater under construction 
The main floor affords views in three directions, with terraces leading out in two: one terrace opens upstream, the other projects over the rocks and cascades. Eagallery-bedroom on the third level have access, likewise, to yet another outdoor terrace. All the vertical elements of the house are constructed of native stone, with "stick-outs" or slightly ch bedroom on the level above has its own terrace, and the study and projected stones to give a more sculptural quality to the stone masses.
All horizontal elements are poured concrete. The floors throughout are paved in stone, the same as
the walls, and the woodwork is a sap grain walnut, executed at an extremely fine level of
craftsmanship. A semi-circular covered walk joins the main house to the guest house further up the hill.

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