I have always loved Fallingwater, an amazing accomplishment.
Considering her position, how does she get the war wrong? The house was built BEFORE World War II. Perhaps she meant changes in Germany in the early 30's and of course the difficulties in post-World War I Germany in the 20's. This video was posted in 2006 and is still wrong? Why not correct the video?
Her story doesn't add up. She says that Kauffman came home from Europe due to World War II, read Wright's autobiography, and then approached him about building a residence... which then started in early 1936. Things didn't even start getting uncomfortable in Europe until 1939. What gives?
@hyunki0510 i believe he can be quoted in saying that, but his stallin belief in that he dictates on the type of furniture placed in the house, is ironic, in essence its a museum that people are to live in, and i hold no ill if the public has a desire to share them, they are great,,, if a tad leaky
@mistyflip322 .I am not denying you, your right to free speech, you can say what you want, whenever you want.. All I said was what you did comment was retarded, juvenile, even infantile and simply stupid! What I am saying is you are a retarded fuckin idiot! You can carry on posting your stupid comments as much as you like! You are a still a retarded idiotic and a simple, sexist, retarded, homophobic, piece of shit. You should learn something while you are in school!! You are a simple dumb cock!
This house is amazing. I saw it as a teenager and it left a lasting impression. Though many years have past, I still remember so many details of this house. The calming rush of water throughout, the stone floors, the corner windows, and the hearth are things I remember most. I'll be going back to see it again with my family next summer. .
Such an amazing piece of architecture. I am going to visit Falling Water this summer and I know that when I actually enter Falling Water that I am going to cry in such happiness. Plus I am only 17 years old. I dream of being an architect since the 6th grade.
I live in the Chicago area and drive my FLW's homes all the time and have always loved them. Is there anything that could keep me from taking the blueprints of a FLW home and having it custom built? I also don't want to bastardize his asthetics, but I just have yet to see a design of a home that is better.
@LolToDeathLol Because The Kaufmann's, who the house was built for, loved that huge boulder, they had picnics on it every summer before the house was built. Thus reason they wanted the house built there. FLW thought it was only appropriate to make it the floor so they could always have picnics there. FLW's key style is building houses with nature and making his architecture co-inside with nature. Sorry for such a long response I just took a class on him. haha
@TheGoodGuyNineteen Unfortunately, it's not the most glamorous job. Unless you are a one in a million famous designer who does nothing but designs for a living, the design aspect is really just a fraction of the job. Most of the time you are working with the ocean of other people involved in a building project and processing several drafts through the city for approval et cetra.
@aldenator18 theres not enough money in the world to make another falling water and you cant not safe you would get a law suit and this house will never be for sale
@lery22 it's built in a place, with high humidity, (obivously:P )so the building materials he used to are slowly being wasted away and they have to work on the house so it won't fall down!
this is the house that has inspired me to learn more about architecture and to someday become a professional architect. hopefully, i shall design houses as beautiful as this one.
i have been there before and i just discovered the falling wqater lego set and it is a must buy in memory of the magnificent peice of art that we call falling water
Perfect in everyway but 1:D it needs refurbashing loads coz it's next to water and all the damp etc. ruins the bricks and lets moss grow etc.:( but it is an amzing peice of architecture especially for when it was created.
@loombaron Is that stupidity innate or all learned behavior? The place is surreal, relaxing and beautiful. The sound of the water would NEVER EVER be annoying to most of us..
Your comments on the other hand tell a story of someone who's fucking clueless.
I just finished watching a PBS special about all the restoration work needed to be done to save it. I must say I'm not very impressed with Llyod's design anymore. And its still praised as being American architecture at its finest. Designed with a flat roof and weak floor beams.
@Curas1 I know that this is a somewhat old comment, but "post tensioning", the method they used to strengthen the terraces from the inside, without any steel showing on the outside, was not invented until the mid 1930's, and did not reach the US until the 50's.
They would have had a hard time achieve the same level of support without breaking the illusion of the terraces floating in air.
@Curas1 I don't hink it would have been a problem fi he hadn't been adamant against any type of columns supporting the corners of the terraces. Look at 3:31.
I mean, I guess he could have added more iron as the engineers suggested, but the iron itself would be heavy, requiring more support of it's own.
Even if he hadn't been 3x over budget, I do not know if he could have done that without altering the look.
I think when you look at a historical period you have to see that there are many things that are antiquated, some becoming obsolete and other that are new and cutting edge, so we can't just point to them a say 'omg cavemen' for the worst of it.
It is ironic that the same era cars were little more than 20yrs old , the klan and nazis marched the street and most movies were just becoming black n white talkies they were building the Hoover dam and developing X rays n atom smashers
@Curas1 FLR was told at the time that his structure wouldn't last; he chose to ignore advice and went ahead with the concrete anyway. Pretty severe deflection (deformation) was detected a long time ago and so the house has been almost rebuilt with steel reinforcements. It's still beautiful though!
@theglasgowinventor Actually the stell ension rods didn't interfer vry much with the origianl design look- far from being 'almost rebuilt'. Please go see it.
@wiguy3 I never said it looked any different at all - just that it had to have some re-strengthening done. In order to do this, very intensive work was required to parts of the structure, in order to keep it looking as the architect intended.
That's what I love, when a building that age is well maintained and totally restored. I wish I could visit the house personally. Why more buildings aren't built with nature in mind is beyond me. Awesome!
I was a tour guide at Fallingwater. What a gift. There was nothing like being in the house late in the day after tours were complete. The sound of the water amazing. Oh how I miss it.
It's going to be a real shame when this beautiful piece of art collapses into the river. Anyone that knows anything of geology realizes that this will be the eventual fate of his house. Granted that could take several centuries.
I have visited it about a year ago. Soon after the repairs were completed. An architectural marvel, it also shows that at Wright's advanced age (67) he was a stubborn old man who thought he could do no wrong. The fact he would not listen to second opinions about deficiencies in his plan and the fact his home fell apart after about 30 years due to gravity and the weight of the cantilevers shows as great as he was, he had many faults as well. Still, it is an amazing piece of architecture.
This place is a great piece of achitecture, but the builders DID skimp on the materials. Otherwise, a marvelous place, from what I've read. I want to see it someday.
It's a shame that for such a long time he was left without work. To have a a purely original architect hungry for work and yet people wanted revivals. But what a beautiful piece of art. I can't wait to experience it.
I completely agree with you. Most architecture is undertaken with little or no thought of how it relates to its surroundings. This house is a superb example of just how it should be done.
I further would like to say that we, as a civilization should LEARN from men such as Frank Loyd Wright on how we can utilize our technology and materials
to create a more fitting and living environment ; instead od resorting to mindless and petty criticism of a great work of art.
Exactly. Many Architects not only give little thought to how the building will fit in with its surroundings, but they also design buildings that can only be built by destructing the earth around them. (Ex. Tearing down a hill to put a house on flat ground.) The middle school that I went to is 40-50 years old and the architect that designed it was smart enough to position it on top of a hill and then have the rest of the building flowing over it (So the earth was not harmed.)
@woundead1998 It's amazing. As someone who worked there for several years, we used to have parties at night. It almost felt as if the Kaufman's were going to walk in and greet you. Even in the late afternoon when the tourists are all gone the house takes on a completely different feel.
I can't believe how lacking in logic that question is. The whole point of the building was to be part of the landscape and the stream was integral. On another note, I often wondered how spring melt-off effected the stability of the building. Spring melt-off causes stream water levels to rise considerably and the water to gush at tremendous force.
It's interesting that you made this comment... I visited every room in this house and also the guest house liked with this... ONE CANNOT HEAR THE WATERFALL FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE
@wildlywity I have only seen the water become extremely high once, we had a very heavy rainfall one year. About 5 inches in one day. The stream itself originates about half a mile upstream from the house and therefore it doesn't have as much opportunity to rise. On this occasion the water rose to within about 5 stairs from the hatch. The house only flooded once in 1956, after a violent thunderstorm, debris caught on the stairs and created a damming effect.
Frank Lloyd Wright was one of the World's true geniuses. Its amazing that any Architect could design a structure such as this, much less in the time it was designed.
i am jeffrey k i am in 4th grade we are tacking a fieldtrip ther i thought i was just a house with a waterfall but i looked i up on the computer and WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rubbish! Mr. Wright's calculations and suppositions about the attitude of the cantilever was absolutely right. He himself once recounted that the builder did not do an exact job of positioning the reinforcing steel inside the concrete, so that might have been a possible reason for any yielding at all.
who is this posh or rather daughter of some posh person talking out of her ass. Please tell me, wow she has got the terms of engineering, but does she actually know wtf she is talking about. Who knew this property would go over budget and what personal history, I dont think she is anything but a tour guide, a sham
Beautiful beyond description...but whoever is responsible for the editing needs to be shot. It's like Frank Lloyd Wright for attention deficit disorder suffering chipmunks.
What a wonderful peace of architecture... Ive never been there but i wish too...Im looking into architecture myself...even though im very young ...i hope that ill be able to be such a great architect like him
actually, there were three fallingwaters before this one; the romantic idea of Frank Lloyd Wright designing a masterpiece in merely 2 hours comes out of the fact that he'd designed many houses up until this one, had a strong notion of how a home should be situated on its site, and things of that nature...To honestly believe that he went into his studio and out came this amazing building that seemingly floats on water means that you have no idea about architecture!
In 1956,the year i arrived to new York from Hong Kong, I saw the picture of this building in the library of the Cooper Union, I exclaimed," This is architecture!" Then I went to the cooper union,then pratt and then my New York license. I did not have the chance to see the actual building until 1988.---The Falling Water has a special meaning to me!---dancewu(dot)net
I have always loved Fallingwater, an amazing accomplishment.
Considering her position, how does she get the war wrong? The house was built BEFORE World War II. Perhaps she meant changes in Germany in the early 30's and of course the difficulties in post-World War I Germany in the 20's. This video was posted in 2006 and is still wrong? Why not correct the video?
jwengland50 4 weeks ago
Her story doesn't add up. She says that Kauffman came home from Europe due to World War II, read Wright's autobiography, and then approached him about building a residence... which then started in early 1936. Things didn't even start getting uncomfortable in Europe until 1939. What gives?
buzzerfly 1 month ago
very good story telling from Dir Lynda!
jjlwis 1 month ago
I love architecture, especially this house!
boxman1571 1 month ago
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boxman1571 1 month ago
This house of Wright's design is a wonder, for sure. There are other houses he designed that I would would rather own though. That's a fact.
ReneeNme 2 months ago
Frank Lloyd Wright was a genius.
Falaxuper 2 months ago
TheGoodGuyNineteen
me too
beathoven97 3 months ago
TheGoogGuyNineteen
me too
beathoven97 3 months ago
Lol... the comment below me. FLW wanted a lot of things... but this house was never his ... it was the K's.
admx94 3 months ago
Frank wanted his house to be residential, not turned into a museum.
hyunki0510 4 months ago
@hyunki0510 i believe he can be quoted in saying that, but his stallin belief in that he dictates on the type of furniture placed in the house, is ironic, in essence its a museum that people are to live in, and i hold no ill if the public has a desire to share them, they are great,,, if a tad leaky
proven22x 3 months ago
240p we meet again
vanflymen 5 months ago
if you actually lived there imagine all the bitches that would be on your dick once you brought them back to the house from the club late at night
mistyflip322 6 months ago
@mistyflip322 ...there`s always one retarded idiot eh?
coltsuperocean10 4 months ago
@coltsuperocean10 shut up nigga
mistyflip322 4 months ago
@mistyflip322 ...yep! there he is again! hahahaha
coltsuperocean10 4 months ago
@coltsuperocean10 don't be mad you don't have bad bitches to bring back to the crib
mistyflip322 4 months ago
@mistyflip322 ...I`m not mad, just appalled at your stupid comments. They have no place on a vid like this. How stupid are you?
coltsuperocean10 4 months ago
@coltsuperocean10 i can say whatever the fuck i wanna say on any vid i wanna say it on... pussy, get your scrub ass of my dick faggot
mistyflip322 4 months ago
@mistyflip322 .I am not denying you, your right to free speech, you can say what you want, whenever you want.. All I said was what you did comment was retarded, juvenile, even infantile and simply stupid! What I am saying is you are a retarded fuckin idiot! You can carry on posting your stupid comments as much as you like! You are a still a retarded idiotic and a simple, sexist, retarded, homophobic, piece of shit. You should learn something while you are in school!! You are a simple dumb cock!
coltsuperocean10 4 months ago
@coltsuperocean10 haha holy shit you went off, calm your bitch ass down, it's youtube... retard
mistyflip322 4 months ago
This house is PERFECT. No more words...
luciealie 7 months ago
This house is amazing. I saw it as a teenager and it left a lasting impression. Though many years have past, I still remember so many details of this house. The calming rush of water throughout, the stone floors, the corner windows, and the hearth are things I remember most. I'll be going back to see it again with my family next summer. .
emm28bee 7 months ago
omg you can still hear the water while she talks!
elchucapablas 7 months ago
Such an amazing piece of architecture. I am going to visit Falling Water this summer and I know that when I actually enter Falling Water that I am going to cry in such happiness. Plus I am only 17 years old. I dream of being an architect since the 6th grade.
sakumotod 8 months ago
just imangine living there.
TheNumse 9 months ago
I live in the Chicago area and drive my FLW's homes all the time and have always loved them. Is there anything that could keep me from taking the blueprints of a FLW home and having it custom built? I also don't want to bastardize his asthetics, but I just have yet to see a design of a home that is better.
815oceanic815 9 months ago
ikea
xH4YD3Nx 10 months ago
Did anyone go here and notice the GIANT boulder in the living room- right in the side of the building? O_o
LolToDeathLol 10 months ago
@LolToDeathLol Because The Kaufmann's, who the house was built for, loved that huge boulder, they had picnics on it every summer before the house was built. Thus reason they wanted the house built there. FLW thought it was only appropriate to make it the floor so they could always have picnics there. FLW's key style is building houses with nature and making his architecture co-inside with nature. Sorry for such a long response I just took a class on him. haha
dromoney6 10 months ago
"because of the SECOND World War?" (the house was designed by Wright in 1935).
ninonne 11 months ago
im sure the music of the steam is beautiful but it gets to be annoying sometimes.
evershield 11 months ago
simply stunning building!
coltsuperocean10 11 months ago
Anyone else here about 14 years old and wanting to be an Architect?
TheGoodGuyNineteen 1 year ago 88
@TheGoodGuyNineteen Haha yup!!! like omg
CurtisMcCrea 1 year ago
@TheGoodGuyNineteen Well I'm 12, but... ;D
MacDaddyRandomosity 11 months ago
@TheGoodGuyNineteen spot on 14 and hoping
cwbytank 10 months ago
@TheGoodGuyNineteen Unfortunately, it's not the most glamorous job. Unless you are a one in a million famous designer who does nothing but designs for a living, the design aspect is really just a fraction of the job. Most of the time you are working with the ocean of other people involved in a building project and processing several drafts through the city for approval et cetra.
Ichvyenichalster 9 months ago
@TheGoodGuyNineteen 12 :D
TheKrizia101 4 months ago
@TheGoodGuyNineteen It isnt going to happen kid. Practice cooking fries and burgers. Thats where you will find your true passion.
cincinatus90 3 weeks ago
@cincinatus90 Just because it happened to you?
hilariovasquez92 1 week ago
@hilariovasquez92 Just trolling. Pay no mind.
cincinatus90 1 week ago
This... would be... THE BEST PLAY BOY MANSION EVER!
NoobTubeAccount 1 year ago
How much?
Raymond09871 1 year ago
If I get enough money I'll re-create this house for myself!
aldenator18 1 year ago
@aldenator18 You can build on niagara falls .
opencurtin 1 year ago
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@aldenator18 theres not enough money in the world to make another falling water and you cant not safe you would get a law suit and this house will never be for sale
LOLsillytunercar 1 year ago
Does any one knows the name of the opening song?
joanidesdottori 1 year ago
WHERE DO I SIGN?
TheDrjman1 1 year ago
it's falling to pieces, though... :S
syl88 1 year ago
@syl88 how come? what happend or what is going to happen to the house?
lery22 1 year ago
@lery22 it's built in a place, with high humidity, (obivously:P )so the building materials he used to are slowly being wasted away and they have to work on the house so it won't fall down!
syl88 1 year ago
Not only was FLR ahead of his time, he's still ahead of ours..
InuvikPhil 1 year ago
maybe Frank L wright was his time forward, because this house looks like modern house nowadays.
MaybexIllxLikexYou 1 year ago
I might be going their eventually!!
Trickmaster180 1 year ago
this is great video with volume set to zero - otherwise annoying music that cuts up and drowns out her voice is unbearable .
likitt2 1 year ago
this is the house that has inspired me to learn more about architecture and to someday become a professional architect. hopefully, i shall design houses as beautiful as this one.
mehnyeh 1 year ago
i love that house so much...it's a natural paradise !!!!!!
nerisa78 1 year ago 11
The archiitectural Temple
arpape2000 1 year ago
cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool
CITYPIZZA101 1 year ago
Try to imagine living in a place like that...
Astralhart 1 year ago
i have been there before and i just discovered the falling wqater lego set and it is a must buy in memory of the magnificent peice of art that we call falling water
basingerp1309 1 year ago
Ever since I saw this as a kid I wanted to live in something like this. An amazing house
andrew097 1 year ago
Perfect in everyway but 1:D it needs refurbashing loads coz it's next to water and all the damp etc. ruins the bricks and lets moss grow etc.:( but it is an amzing peice of architecture especially for when it was created.
thatonekid722 1 year ago
What is annoying is reading comments from immature students.
MrSueVeneer 1 year ago
isnt it a bit annyoing to hear the sound of falling water all the time? drives you crazy.
loombaron 1 year ago
@loombaron Spent the better part of 4 years working there and no, it's not annoying
everstud 1 year ago
@loombaron Is that stupidity innate or all learned behavior? The place is surreal, relaxing and beautiful. The sound of the water would NEVER EVER be annoying to most of us..
Your comments on the other hand tell a story of someone who's fucking clueless.
JustJake57 1 year ago
it is NOT beautiful - boxes among such lovely nature
mocevil 1 year ago
I Read abut it too on CSAP. Nobody in my class said it was cool.
ClosetDoor100 2 years ago
relley r u searus i read about this on the CSAP test wow its all they said it was so beatiful i want to see it in rell life
anothergman 2 years ago
ever since i've layed eyes on this house i've wanted it.
ms30x14 2 years ago
this place was amazinggg!
i recommend going there
AKimx23 2 years ago 2
I want to see the place!!! I think i'd like to be a guide.. but.. er.. do you have to memorize what you say???
UnamedKing 2 years ago
I just finished watching a PBS special about all the restoration work needed to be done to save it. I must say I'm not very impressed with Llyod's design anymore. And its still praised as being American architecture at its finest. Designed with a flat roof and weak floor beams.
ole9421 2 years ago
Esta casa foi construída em 1935 e é intemporal. O projecto é maravilhoso!
dokilinda 2 years ago
I wonder what made them decide not to reinforce falling water when it was built ?
This house is almost my ideal home it's so beautiful....
Curas1 2 years ago 8
@Curas1 I know that this is a somewhat old comment, but "post tensioning", the method they used to strengthen the terraces from the inside, without any steel showing on the outside, was not invented until the mid 1930's, and did not reach the US until the 50's.
They would have had a hard time achieve the same level of support without breaking the illusion of the terraces floating in air.
electrostatic1 11 months ago
@electrostatic1
I see.
I made this comment based on a article that said that Wright was warned that it didn't contain enough Iron for proper support.
I assumed they meant internal supports but considering your statement I now doubt that .
Curas1 11 months ago
@Curas1 I don't hink it would have been a problem fi he hadn't been adamant against any type of columns supporting the corners of the terraces. Look at 3:31.
I mean, I guess he could have added more iron as the engineers suggested, but the iron itself would be heavy, requiring more support of it's own.
Even if he hadn't been 3x over budget, I do not know if he could have done that without altering the look.
electrostatic1 11 months ago
@Curas1 the most significant thing is, it was built in 1930's. simply incredible considering the period it belongs to.
ethusiasm 9 months ago
@ethusiasm
I think when you look at a historical period you have to see that there are many things that are antiquated, some becoming obsolete and other that are new and cutting edge, so we can't just point to them a say 'omg cavemen' for the worst of it.
It is ironic that the same era cars were little more than 20yrs old , the klan and nazis marched the street and most movies were just becoming black n white talkies they were building the Hoover dam and developing X rays n atom smashers
Curas1 9 months ago
@Curas1 BTW all that was off the cuff so if I got some dates wrong sorry :P
Curas1 9 months ago
@Curas1 FLR was told at the time that his structure wouldn't last; he chose to ignore advice and went ahead with the concrete anyway. Pretty severe deflection (deformation) was detected a long time ago and so the house has been almost rebuilt with steel reinforcements. It's still beautiful though!
theglasgowinventor 5 months ago
@theglasgowinventor
do you know of any youtube links to that renovation, does it look any different ?
Curas1 5 months ago
@theglasgowinventor Actually the stell ension rods didn't interfer vry much with the origianl design look- far from being 'almost rebuilt'. Please go see it.
wiguy3 2 months ago
@wiguy3 I never said it looked any different at all - just that it had to have some re-strengthening done. In order to do this, very intensive work was required to parts of the structure, in order to keep it looking as the architect intended.
theglasgowinventor 2 months ago
That's what I love, when a building that age is well maintained and totally restored. I wish I could visit the house personally. Why more buildings aren't built with nature in mind is beyond me. Awesome!
Seattlecarnut 2 years ago
Awesome.......he was a genius.....
LillAmy615 2 years ago 2
I couldn't live there with that dreadful noise going all the time -that noise reminds me of what I imagine a mental asylumn to be; earplugs please.
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Cheers.
from,
del-boy.
YouAreSoRight 2 years ago
wahoo...one of the best videos of the fallingwater...thanks for this...
davalprof 2 years ago
I was a tour guide at Fallingwater. What a gift. There was nothing like being in the house late in the day after tours were complete. The sound of the water amazing. Oh how I miss it.
bozekkb 2 years ago
this would be the only must see on a trip to your country
N1XVAN 2 years ago
ur a joke...grand canyon?; niagra falls? yellowstone? architecturally i dont know much about so maybe, but God is the best architect!
KeyS2PeacE 2 years ago
yeah seen all that before , god did not make those things only mother natur, time and wether
N1XVAN 2 years ago
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KeyS2PeacE 2 years ago
I was just there 2 days ago. I got a lot of pictures............
priya1985 2 years ago
the best construction, from all points of view, I`m serious.
MrSatanochio 2 years ago
wow. just beautiful
Jennyloo87 2 years ago
this house is phenomenal. wright was a genius. in my opinion he is the author of modern architecture.
harshLesson 2 years ago
The house is just breathtaking. He was a genius.
HowlBlack 2 years ago
It's going to be a real shame when this beautiful piece of art collapses into the river. Anyone that knows anything of geology realizes that this will be the eventual fate of his house. Granted that could take several centuries.
jmw4004 2 years ago
I got to see it when i was 12 and it was the coolest thing I have ever seen. I would like to see it again after all these years. Twas magical
Cleancutchaos 2 years ago
I have visited it about a year ago. Soon after the repairs were completed. An architectural marvel, it also shows that at Wright's advanced age (67) he was a stubborn old man who thought he could do no wrong. The fact he would not listen to second opinions about deficiencies in his plan and the fact his home fell apart after about 30 years due to gravity and the weight of the cantilevers shows as great as he was, he had many faults as well. Still, it is an amazing piece of architecture.
AcuraT 2 years ago
My uncle lives in a Frank Lloyd Wright home in PA - it's sick!
jmuduke99 2 years ago
yeah okay!!
Owyourhurtingme 2 years ago
Does anyone know what 155k then would be equivalent to now a days?
miike12345 2 years ago
2.3 Million in 2007 dollars
garyukuleleca 2 years ago
@miike12345 3 million, approximately.
everstud 1 year ago
i went to this place yesterday
its a fantastic piece of architechture
but it seems like its interior engineering was pretty poorly made
mynameisjmold 2 years ago
This place is a great piece of achitecture, but the builders DID skimp on the materials. Otherwise, a marvelous place, from what I've read. I want to see it someday.
knoxvilleguy2 2 years ago
Who lives there now?
dyingfly 2 years ago
none....
the son of the businessman who owned this house donated it so it became a national museum now.
jingeshan24 2 years ago
It's a shame that for such a long time he was left without work. To have a a purely original architect hungry for work and yet people wanted revivals. But what a beautiful piece of art. I can't wait to experience it.
tobeedetermined 2 years ago
Falling Water is a classic example of the site developing the form and volumes ,
a process known as plasticity...
Common architects resort to SUPERIMPOSITION OF A PRECONCEIVED FORM ON A LANDSCAPE WHICH THEY FIRST DISREGARD AND THEN BUILD UPON IT DISGRACEFULLY.
steelnfire 2 years ago 2
I completely agree with you. Most architecture is undertaken with little or no thought of how it relates to its surroundings. This house is a superb example of just how it should be done.
textthing 2 years ago
Thank you kindly for your comments.
I further would like to say that we, as a civilization should LEARN from men such as Frank Loyd Wright on how we can utilize our technology and materials
to create a more fitting and living environment ; instead od resorting to mindless and petty criticism of a great work of art.
steelnfire 2 years ago
Exactly. Many Architects not only give little thought to how the building will fit in with its surroundings, but they also design buildings that can only be built by destructing the earth around them. (Ex. Tearing down a hill to put a house on flat ground.) The middle school that I went to is 40-50 years old and the architect that designed it was smart enough to position it on top of a hill and then have the rest of the building flowing over it (So the earth was not harmed.)
feiscool 2 years ago
We must work with nature for the man made environment to be harmonious
integration of built form with nature is essential . Unfortunately this is not the way today.
steelnfire 2 years ago
Pardon me , but I'm not so certain that the hillbillie song at the end is fitting for this project... i prefer American Jazzz !
steelnfire 2 years ago
Not a signature residence... but rather a masterpiece , centuries ahead of it's time.
steelnfire 2 years ago 2
what's that continuous noise? somebody has left faucets open.
yepheth 2 years ago
i drove past it if that counts?
GFDeMarcus 2 years ago
You drove past it and didn't go see it? I can't believe it!
tobeedetermined 2 years ago
i wonder how it feels liek to be inside @ night
woundead1998 2 years ago
@woundead1998 It's amazing. As someone who worked there for several years, we used to have parties at night. It almost felt as if the Kaufman's were going to walk in and greet you. Even in the late afternoon when the tourists are all gone the house takes on a completely different feel.
everstud 1 year ago
Falling Water is pure geniuses that could only be done by the greatest architect of all time
laviel 2 years ago
What song is at the end?
feiscool 2 years ago
can you switch off the waterfall ?
etiterum 2 years ago
no it's build upon the stream
laviel 2 years ago
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wildlywity 2 years ago
I can't believe how lacking in logic that question is. The whole point of the building was to be part of the landscape and the stream was integral. On another note, I often wondered how spring melt-off effected the stability of the building. Spring melt-off causes stream water levels to rise considerably and the water to gush at tremendous force.
wildlywity 2 years ago
lacking logic ? I was joking. Have you ever lived near a waterfall ? It's not about the building, it's about the noise.
etiterum 2 years ago
It's interesting that you made this comment... I visited every room in this house and also the guest house liked with this... ONE CANNOT HEAR THE WATERFALL FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE
I'TS A VERY PEACEFULL & SERENE PLACE
steelnfire 2 years ago
WHAAAAT ???
etiterum 2 years ago
@wildlywity I have only seen the water become extremely high once, we had a very heavy rainfall one year. About 5 inches in one day. The stream itself originates about half a mile upstream from the house and therefore it doesn't have as much opportunity to rise. On this occasion the water rose to within about 5 stairs from the hatch. The house only flooded once in 1956, after a violent thunderstorm, debris caught on the stairs and created a damming effect.
everstud 1 year ago
una maravilla!!
danamjf25 2 years ago
Frank Lloyd Wright was one of the World's true geniuses. Its amazing that any Architect could design a structure such as this, much less in the time it was designed.
feiscool 2 years ago 3
i am jeffrey k i am in 4th grade we are tacking a fieldtrip ther i thought i was just a house with a waterfall but i looked i up on the computer and WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ftugjvkftiuvft 2 years ago
he built that in 1939!
It looks like a modern day house
battleman100 2 years ago 28
@battleman100 1935!
CITYPIZZA101 1 year ago
Does someone actually live there? If not, HOW FUCKING MUCH IS IT TO LIVE THERE :O
XXflapjaxXX 2 years ago
it's actually a museum now.
KennilworthyWhisp 2 years ago 9
Argh!
XXflapjaxXX 2 years ago 3
i wish i could live in this house:)
luiartemis 3 years ago
This house is absolutely gorgeous
Kameleon0105 3 years ago 19
Rubbish! Mr. Wright's calculations and suppositions about the attitude of the cantilever was absolutely right. He himself once recounted that the builder did not do an exact job of positioning the reinforcing steel inside the concrete, so that might have been a possible reason for any yielding at all.
margenna 3 years ago 2
who is this posh or rather daughter of some posh person talking out of her ass. Please tell me, wow she has got the terms of engineering, but does she actually know wtf she is talking about. Who knew this property would go over budget and what personal history, I dont think she is anything but a tour guide, a sham
haliman130 2 years ago
after studying it in art class, i wanna live there now
peppermintai 3 years ago
Beautiful beyond description...but whoever is responsible for the editing needs to be shot. It's like Frank Lloyd Wright for attention deficit disorder suffering chipmunks.
pschaffner74 3 years ago 3
i love going there in the summer im only half our away its so peacefull and beautiful i wish i was there right now if it was warm
mymicrowave17000gs 3 years ago
What's the piano piece at the beginning?
kx3kx3 3 years ago
Did you find out? I would like to know also...
triterotops 2 years ago
nop! :(
kx3kx3 2 years ago
What a wonderful peace of architecture... Ive never been there but i wish too...Im looking into architecture myself...even though im very young ...i hope that ill be able to be such a great architect like him
artchik1 3 years ago 5
I've been to Fallingwater twice. Kentuck Knob is nearby. There is a lot to do in the area.
radlam64 3 years ago
screw the replica im taking the real thing XD that house is so beutifull the man was a genious
fabioproductions 3 years ago
i really love this house thanks 4 posting the video ^^
Ayra0Chan 3 years ago
thank you for posting this :) This is an awe-inspiring piece of architecture.
AndrewG4d 3 years ago
Did you know that Frank Lloyd Wright design this house in 3 hours??? Amazing.
carncou 3 years ago
actually, there were three fallingwaters before this one; the romantic idea of Frank Lloyd Wright designing a masterpiece in merely 2 hours comes out of the fact that he'd designed many houses up until this one, had a strong notion of how a home should be situated on its site, and things of that nature...To honestly believe that he went into his studio and out came this amazing building that seemingly floats on water means that you have no idea about architecture!
thearchitect27 3 years ago
most beautiful house I've ever seen....should I win the lottery then I would like a replica of this house...10 stars for Frank .
hexenhuisje 3 years ago
Im in love with the house!
gabyrios98 3 years ago
PARADISE LOVE THAT HOUSE!
fabioproductions 3 years ago
haha I went to Taliesin West and decided to apply to cooper union and pratt if that counts for anything?
druitarplayer 3 years ago
In 1956,the year i arrived to new York from Hong Kong, I saw the picture of this building in the library of the Cooper Union, I exclaimed," This is architecture!" Then I went to the cooper union,then pratt and then my New York license. I did not have the chance to see the actual building until 1988.---The Falling Water has a special meaning to me!---dancewu(dot)net
georgewu5 3 years ago
I don't really like modern architecture but I love the way this house seamlessly integrates nature into its design. It's really beautiful.
blkchk 3 years ago 2
Wright has changed the way architecture is thought of in America forever.
Wright's youngest fan, Laura
JustJoshynMe 3 years ago
This house is very inspiring, I think it has a nice flow, akin to the Bauhaus.
Biopharmer 3 years ago
awesome house...even einstein have been here..
But erm...i wonder if this house haunted
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nycholaz 3 years ago
wow i might go there this summer
cant wait
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