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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...

Rear Façade Front Façade Villa Tugendhat The Villa Tugendhat was built in 1930, and designed by Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe. It is a three floor Villa situated on a slope, with a concrete wall supporting the street side.   It is made of  steel frame construction, a concrete foundation, reinforced concrete ceilings and floors, and a stucco façade and brick masonry. Steel frame construction was not common for homes at the time, but it allowed for the development of a free plan layout, and varying floor plans for each individual level. The cross-shape profile of the columns were subtle in appearance, placed five meters apart, but held up all the upper levels, by being anchored into the concrete floor and ceiling slabs. Meis’ functionalist concept of iron framework enabled the structure  to be built without load bearing walls,  creating more open and light spaces. Grete & Fritz Tugenhat met Mies in Berlin in 1927, and were a...