Posts

Showing posts with the label AND THE CHICAGO SCHOOL

Fallingwater, 1935, Frank Lloyd Wright

Image
Kisairis Espinal                             Falling water is a very famous house done by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright during 1935 in Pennsylvania 43 miles from Pittsburgh. This house was designed as a weekend home for a family Kaufmann and her husband, Mr. Kaufmann was an owner of the department store. This house was built on a waterfall on the Bear Run in the Mill Run. This is one of Wright’s most beautiful work, this is listed as one of the 28 places to visit before you die. This house was designated as a national historic landmark on 1996. The American Institute of Architects name this project best time best work of American in 2007, it was ranked 29 on the AIA. Mr. Kaufmann was a Pittsburgh businessman and the president of the department store. Mr. and Mrs. Kaufmann only had one child called Edgar Kaufmann Jr, he became the catalyst for the father and Frank Lloyd Wright. In 1934, Edgar read Wr...