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Fallingwater and icon of American Modern and Organic Architecture. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built in 1936-38. The Koffman family were looking to build a summer retreat home. Fallingwater was commissioned by the Koffman family thanks to their son Edgar Koffman who was an apprentice studying under Wright. Frank Lloyd Wright was known for his Modern architecture and his love for nature. His organic architectural style had a big influence on how the house would be built. Wright was very fortunate to have these clients who were big into arts and always expanding their horizons to new things. This was possible because of their business that they had. As the Koffman family worked in the city it was a great joy for them to return on weekends to a respite away from the bustling city. Immediately after meeting with the Koffman family he acknowledged that the site was very important to them and figured out a way for it to be part of their stay at the waterfall. The building was constr...

The Darwin D. Martin House Complex is a residence located in Buffalo, NY. It was designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright and it was built between 1903 and 1905. It is one of Wright’s greatest works, among the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, NY and Fallingwater in Pennsylvania. The Martin House Complex was designed during Wright’s Prairie House period. The Prairie House period was a new approach to domestic architecture that Wright decided to take. It was inspired by the flat landscape in the Midwest and it is a unique style of architecture. (“The Prairie Style | Frank Lloyd Wright Trust”) Prairie houses have low, horizontal lines that were designed to resemble how prairies are flat and they are built around a central point which is the chimney. Prairie houses contain mainly open spaces rather than confined rooms. The purpose of this was to show the contrast between the interior spaces and the surrounding terrain. (“Prairie Style”) In the Martin House Complex lived Dar...

The  Falling Water is a housing project design by architect Frank Lloyd Wright for Edgar Kaufmann’s family. The project is located 50 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is famous for its unique design concept - a house sit on above a stream and a waterfall, and the project has shown the appearance of Wright's concept "Organic Architecture": the structure has used cantilever with open plan design. In 1996, Falling Water was designated as a National Historic Landmark. Wright used to have a conflict with the Kaufmann’s family and consultation when he was designing the project. Furthermore, he wanted to follow his design philosophy and give up the project to  put pressure to the family to agree with him. Finally, they agreed and let Wright to produce amazing and stunning housing design to the world. The driveway passes through the forest and falls to approach the project. The bridge leads visitors to arrive the entrance. The falls has  set behind the ...

The Last house in the woods In the wilderness of Mill Run, Pennsylvania located in the Bear Run Nature Reserve sits a house camouflaged by nature. Design by Frank Lloyd Wright, the Falling Water house redefined the idea between man, architecture and Nature. Built as a weakened home for owners Mr. Edgar Kaufmann, his wife, and their son who worked under wright himself, the house in many ways was the product of, to simply put it, a last-minute scramble for ideas [3]. But, as it turned out this last-minute scramble turned to be one of the most architectural successful houses of the early 20th century. Inspired by Japanese architecture, Wright incorporated the house on to nature and vice versa. He wanted to create harmony between man and nature, and in doing so he integrated the house with the water fall (built on top of it) to do so [5].   Wright Revolved the house through two methods, on the outside and the inside. On the outside he used the presence of the falls, a...

The Avery Coonley house, also referred to as the Coonley House, or the Coonley Estate is located on a small peninsula surrounded by the Des Plaines River in Chicago, and of the few architecture pieces that Frank Lloyd Wright created, it is one of the largest prairie school styled homes that he ever developed; while also being the first of his work with a zoned residential plan. The other prairie school styled buildings that he created were the Dana-Thomas house and the Darwin D. Martin house. The house created a new layout, laid out in five separate, yet united property structures. He placed the public space, the bedroom wing, and the kitchen along with the servant areas on the second floor, creating three separate private spaces which had the best view of the surrounding landscapes. The bottom, however, had a direct relationship to the landscape around it, and included the entrances, the playroom, and the sewing room which were activities done in the public area during ...