FLW's Falling Water

[belindarodas10]

Quuuuue buena casaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa la amooo =P

[pechinrules]

I grew up near there and this is not a fake video...trust me.

[swimmerB0B]

fixing up?? you mean to keep it from sinking into the earth and/or sliding down the hill.

[lizz987654321]

The music is also from a Billy Joel song "This Night", I think it is called.

[finaleefree]

Nice mike hun

[supertaj1800]

RIP FLW Greatest Architect Ever

[dorapezzilli]

La casa sulla cascata.

[Jacksloveinbloom]

Please, can some one tell me the name of the background music. I know that it's a part of a classic, but i just can't pull it out of my head. Thank you .

[mikeymike202]

@Jacksloveinbloom

It's a Beethoven piece, but I don't remember the exact name. Probably a piano sonata, it might be named Pathetique or something. If I get a chance I'll check and post the name of the piece.

[mikeymike202]

I looked up the music. It is 08 II. Adagio Cantabile from Piano Sonata No. 8 in C Minor, Op.13. I was correct, it is named "Pathetique".

[vonduncker]

Wright's structural engineers were constantly "beefing" up his designs, especially his cantilevers. Wright simply dismissed their doubts, thinking he knew best. Sometimes he was dramatically right, as in his lilly-pad columns for Johnson Wax.....many times he was wrong, here and Robie House and too many to list.

[modelleg]

I've been there. The critic on Ken Burns feature about Wright, got it right. It makes you want to sing a song...there are no words to describe it.

[jimilli09]

remarkable...I want to visit this place so bad.

[jennybabe98614]

he used the enviroment around him and created this house, he like had a tree growing out of the roof, and his furniture built into the floors its really awsome and cool

[Vurner01]

it one of the best projects of Frank Lloyd Wright .. a awsome acitecture ..

[MrDanilorcastro]

WHAT'S FALLINGWATER ABOUT IT???...

[MrDanilorcastro]

i'm not really impressed, its just that , theres some error in it , i feel, perhaps the overdisplay and play of concrete and stone....this is a house we must remember not a play of design, a simple house design for habitation and not for the hiding,....NO WONDER IT WAS JUST FOR DISPLAY , NOT FOR HABITATION,...i am architect that's why.

[vonduncker]

Not for Habitation? The Kaufman's loved this house so much they commissioned another from Wright.

[rangipawa]

@MrDanilorcastro I think Mr Wright has earned his place in not only american but in the world of architecture as a master craftsman.

Fallingwater WAS used by the Kaufmann's from 1937 to 1963. In 1963. Albeit a weekend home.

It's not perfect, it leaks it needed 11 million bucks in fixing up but it is an icon and that you cannot take away from it.

[avdo4u]

LOVE the house, just add a water turbne for electricity!!

[wetreallday]

FFFFAAAAKKKKEEEEEE!!!!!! TOtally fake!!

[mikeymike202]

Sorry, but your judgement is in error. There is nothing fake about my video. It's a little bit soft because it's compressed. The only special effect is some slow motion during close ups of the water. I had a different piece of music here before, but was asked to change it and use something from the public domain from youtube.

I shot the video, I edited the video, I posted the video. I know it's real.

I'm not going to say anything else to attempt to change your mind.

[poopoo563]

@wetreallday are you stupid

[cjf334]

@wetreallday ya totally not fake its on rt 381 in the laurel highlands of pennsylvania by ohiopile state park. and how do i know this i was there today

[WalkingQuad]

Really Cool Video ! Thanks for sharing it.

[lammbrav]

i think thats the world greatest living-house!

[HowlBlack]

Wow...

[jmuduke99]

What a sick sick sick house - have always loved it.

[Owyourhurtingme]

Too bad its mildew city right on top of water !!!!

[cuticutecute2]

It was winter time.. All pictures, videos I've seen for this house was taken during summer and fall. Nice one..

[whatslov3]

you didnt show the inside of the house at all... all i saw was what i could easily see it plain photos but thanks for trying..

[mikeymike202]

Photography is only allowed inside the house during a once-per-day session in the morning.

The house cannot be seen, even in this distant view, without taking the tour. It is in a secluded area some distance from the road. As you can see the forest is dense, making the house invisible from the road.

[jaja1818]

heard they did some reinforcing work on the cantilevers above the river area cuz that part started to sag to much due to material wearing  thru the years..i think they used cables or such and had to close down the area...think that was in the 1999 or so..wonder if it changed some of the original features prior to the revitalization work..anyways i find architecture a much more soothing art to look at than paintings...thanks for the vid..just loved this masterpiece..checkout also salk institute

[mikeymike202]

You're right about the reinforcing, they talked about it during the tour. The steel beams supporting the concrete 'trays' were too small, resuliting in the sag. The living room floor was opened for the rework and had a plexiglass cover. So, they weren't hiding the defect, they were showing the public what they were doing about it..

Too many people want to analyze a 1920s problem with 2009 technology. If someone disagrees I will ask them to analyze today's work based on 2050 knowledge...

[jaja1818]

right..i mean wright was way ahead of his time like other great architects of his time..and the technology didnt yet existed to analyze these design of falling water..in my opinion its not really a matter of design flaw that caused the structure to have such problems but it would fall unto the material fatigue..i mean 70+ years is a pretty long time..and you should expect to already revitalize the structure..

[everstud]

@jaja1818 yes, although the work wasn't completed until 2002, I think. Post-tension cables were installed in the floor, It's not visible and the previous deflection was not corrected.

[jounster]

VERY nice, especially choice of music.

[lostsouls79]

I've been here. Spring time it's really beautiful. Nice work though and great song, truely compliments scene. : )

[tomasayo]

One of the truly breathtaking moments of my life was arriving at Fallingwater as dusk approached on a late November afternoon. Crisp. Trees were empty of their leaves. Detoured off the Pennsylvania Turnpike on a whim to have a look, and was just stunned. What a piece of work. Incomparable.