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Sulaiman Bin Ahmed  Extra Credit Falling Water Falling water house was designed in 1935 by a renowned American architect named Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959). Falling water is located in the mountains of south western Pennsylvania, also known as the Laurel Highlands, in Mill Run, Pennsylvania. in Fayette County, and a distance of about 70 miles east of Pittsburgh. In this location i.e. In Mill Run, Pennsylvania in the Bear Run Nature Reserve, the stream flows at 1298 feet above sea level and suddenly breaks to fall at 30 feet. The building is one of Wright’s most widely acclaimed works which best exemplifies his philosophy of organic architecture: the harmonious union of art and nature. Falling water house was designed for the family of Pittsburgh department store owner, Edgar J. Kaufmann, Sr. as a private residence and weekend home. The Kaufmann family, Edgar J. Kaufmann, Sr. (1885-1955), Liliane S. Kaufmann (1889-1952), and their son, Edgar Kaufmann jr. (1910-1989), owned...

Sulaiman Bin Ahmed Extra Credit  Seagram Building Seagram Building is designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and ex-MoMA staffer and architect Philip Johnson. The landmark skyscraper is located on Park Avenue between 52nd and 53rd streets in mid-town Manhattan (375 Park Avenue New York, New York 10022) and it is often loftily hailed as a precedent-setting structure for modern corporate architecture in New York City. The building's particular conception and construction were largely driven by the idealistic, principled visions of Phyllis Lambert, daughter of Seagram's founder Samuel Bronfman. The skyscraper was originally designed as the headquarters for Joseph E. Seagram’s & Sons, and was Mies’ first tall office building project. The building is Characterised by sleek glass and metal, rather than the ornamental heavy stone and brick facades of previous decades, the Seagram Building signalled a new era of functional skyscraper, adopting a minimalist corporate aestheti...