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Bear Run and the sound of its water permeate the house, especially during the spring when the snow is melting, and locally quarried stone walls and cantilevered terraces resembling the nearby rock formations are meant to be in harmony. The design incorporates broad expanses of windows and balconies which reach out into their surroundings. The staircase leading down from the living room to the stream (mentioned above) is accessed via movable horizontal glass panes. In conformance with Wright's views, the main entry door is away from the falls.
On the hillside above the main house stands a four-bay carport, servants' quarters, and a guest house. These attached outbuildings were built two years later using the same quality of materials and attention to detail as the main house. The guest quarters feature a spring-fed swimming pool which overflows and drains to the river below. After Fallingwater was deeded to the public, three carport bays were enclosed at the direction of Kaufmann, Jr., to be used by museum visitors to view a presentation at the end of their guided tours on the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy (to which the home was entrusted). Kaufmann, Jr. designed its interior himself, to specifications found in other Fallingwater interiors by Wright.
Here we can see the unique tricks Wright used with the brickwork to emphasize
the horizontal visual impact of the building, the bricks are long and thin, the
horizontal mortar joints are thicker than usual and untinted to stand out and
form long horizontal lines, the vertical mortaring is tinted pink and thinner
than usual, they virtually disappear creating the impression of unbroken
horizontal bands of brick
Ward W. Willits House, 1901, Frank Lloyd Wright, 1445 Sheridan Rd., Highland Park
Wright's earliest Prairie style building.
Eric Lloyd Wright, master architect and grandson of Frank Lloyd Wright, taken at Fallingwater. A nicer, gentler fellow you will never meet.
Frank Lloyd Wright built this. I hesitate to call it Art Deco. FLW cannot be so easily categorized. Had it been built 20 years later I would have called it a "Modern".
His cousin commissioned this home, and it has a name. "Westhope".
Edward R. Hills House (1906) - 313 Forest Avenue - Frank Lloyd Wright architect - Oak Park - Chicago - May 24 2009
May 14, 2019 - Frank Lloyd Wright's Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church located at 9400 West Congress Street in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. Designed in 1956. The church opened in 1961 two years after Wright's death. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
"Wright’s design for the structure he affectionately termed “a little St. Sophia” is defined by the symbols of the Greek Orthodox faith (it is essentially a Greek cross inscribed
in a circle), but it is a marked departure from traditional Byzantine church architecture.
Four equidistant concrete pillars support the domed roof while defining a cross on the main floor. Wright’s resulting uninterrupted circular sanctuary creates an interior at once spacious and intimate. The 106-foot wide dome is not fixed, but floats on thousands of ball bearings contained in a steel rail that caps the outer wall. The gold-anodized aluminum used throughout the building was a new material developed by Alcoa. The dome’s original blue tile exterior has been replaced by a synthetic plastic resin due to structural problems. One of Wright’s last major commissions, the church was not unveiled until two years after his death." Previous text from the following website: franklloydwright.org/site/annunciation-greek-orthodox-chu...
Church website:
annunciationwi.org