Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater

[iamfly98]

wow don't you wonder if someone that great will create something that great again?

[ebertmadwoman]

my most fave that FLW ever built.

[EVANisYOU]

the music is a bit repetitively annoying.

[camreeno360]

No, I designed that house.

[ruapraia]

Thank you for the post, i just loved it.

[microcinema]

@ruapraia you're welcome! glad you enjoyed it!

[d3peeto]

its true FLW really knew space.. beginning at a point then using extensions which created direction and positions to create an enclosure.. but most importantly there was always an order to the space.. if i recall correctly the robie house 1st floor had many golden sections

[leloodallasmultipass]

there are a lot of houses all around the world and this is definitely one of them.  and I mean anywhere.

[acsial]

Lots of the 'Eichlers' (based on designs by Joseph Eichler, inspired by FLW) were built in the '50s-'60s. They look nice, but are really a disaster. Flat roofs are vulnerable to heavy snow/hail loads and the Bernoulli effect (literally 'lifting' off, like an airplane wing, in high winds). All that glass is either freezing, or blazing hot.

Fallingwater was nicknamed 'Runingwater' by the Kaufman family, as it was damp and mouldy. The cantillevered floors sagged (engineers warned him of this).

[smichael61]

I see your point, but when one realizes when Falling Water was built there where lots of people living in corrugated tin shacks with an out house conveniently located some distance away. I'll take my chances with Running Water.

[acsial]

At least the shantytowns don't come with a multimilliondollar price tag...

I wonder why the WARP roof wasn't more popular in some of these types of structures. It's gorgeous and--unlike a 'flat' (actually, slightly-sloped) roof--drains well.

[deezynar]

acsial, by WARP, do you mean hyperbolic paraboloid? An architect by the name Arthur Brown made hyperbolic paraboloid roofs out of 2 layers of corrugated aluminum at 90 degrees to each other. They are much lighter than concrete versions. One he made is a carport and it looks very bold with its cantilevered points.

[acsial]

Thanks for the info. I remembered, now, that the 'Saddle Dome' in Calgary is this type of building. The roof consists of concrete segments resting on a cable grid. It's one ugly-ass building and very poorly laid out (the 'nosebleed' seats are AWFUL)...but at leats the roof's interesting! It seems to have held up well to our brutal climate.