Frank Lloyd Wright was an American architect known for promoting organic architecture that was in harmony with humanity and the environment. Some of his most famous works include Fallingwater, which was built directly over a waterfall in Pennsylvania. Fallingwater used reinforced concrete, steel, glass and sandstone to appear as if it was part of the natural surroundings. It became renowned for being built in harmony with nature rather than just overlooking it. Wright designed the house to have the waterfall incorporated into the occupants' daily lives rather than just being something they looked at occasionally. Fallingwater demonstrated Wright's mastery of using basic shapes and modern construction techniques to create structures that blended seamlessly with their natural settings.

1. INTRODUCTION
TO
AR. FRANK LLYOD WRIGHT

2. Frank Lloyd Wright
.
Philosophy- Wright promoted organic architecture (harmony with
humanity and its environment )was a leader of the Prairie School
movement of architecture.
Born:
June 8, 1867 in Richland Center,
Wisconsin America.
Died:
April 9, 1959 in Arizona, at age 91
Education:
When he was 15,
F. L. Wright entered the University of Wisconsin as a special
student . The school had no course in architecture; Wright
studied engineering for one & half year
He was interior designer, writer and educator,

3. His father was a Unitarian circuit preacher and musician. His mother was a Welsh
woman of strong will and heavy influence. Wright’s father disappeared when Frank
was 12 years old.
His mother aimed to make her son into an architect. She hung pictures of Salisbury
Cathedral in his nursery and bought Froebel blocks for him to play with. These blocks
were his introduction
to Euclidean geometry.
Froebel blocks

4. Leaving school after a few semesters, Frank Lloyd Wright apprenticed with J.L.
Silsbee and eventually with Louis Sullivan.
After working with Adler and Sullivan for several years, Sullivan discovered that
Wright was designing houses outside the office's work. Frank Lloyd Wright split
from Sullivan and opened his own practice in 1893.
Apprenticeship:

5. 2 - ‘’DO NOT TRY TO TEACH
DESIGN .
TEACH PRINCIPELS’’.
Quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright:
1 - "The physician can bury his mistakes,
but the architect can only advise his clients
to plant vines."

6. Frank Lloyd Wright was married three times and had seven children. His work was
controversial and his private life was often the subject of gossip. Although his work
was praised in Europe as early as 1910, it was not until 1949 that he received an
award from American Institute of Architects. been called America's most famous
architect. During his 70-year career, Wright designed 1,141 buildings, including
homes, offices, churches, schools, libraries, bridges, and museums. 532 of these
designs were completed, and 409 still stand.
Wright was recognized in 1991 by the American Institute of Architects as "the greatest
American architect of all time“.

7. Basic Principles of Wright’S
Designs
 Organic Colors.
(alternative to the artificial colors)
 Simple Geometric Shapes
 Integration of Building with
Natural Surroundings
 Strong Horizontal Lines
 Hidden Entries

8. LAKELAND FLORIDA U.S
ESTABLISHED- (1883).
FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE.

9. SPRINGFIELD U.S (1902-1904)
DANA THOMAS HOUSE

10. BUFFALO NEWYORY U.S( 1903-1905).
DRAWIN D.MARTIN HOUSE

11. BLOOMINGBANK LLINOIS U.S( 1907-1910).
COONLEY HOUSE

12. Hollyhock House
LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA USA,
( 1919-1921).

13. IMPERIAL HOTEL TOKYO JAPAN – (1919-1923).

14. LOS - ANGELES CALIFORNIA U.S - 1924
ENNIS HOUSE,

15. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM
• Frank Lloyd Wright created
the Guggenheim Museum as
a series of organic shapes.
Circular forms spiral down
down like the interior of a
shell. Visitors to the museum
begin on the upper level and
follow a sloping ramp
downward through
connected exhibition spaces.
MANHATTAN NEWYORK CITY
FOUNDED IN.1939

16. MARIN COUNTRY CIVIC CENTER
RAFAEL CALIFORNIA U.S ( 1960).

17. - dream house Falling water southwestern Pennsylvania

18. FALLING WATER
• Fallingwater, is a house designed by American architect Frank
Lloyd Wright in 1935 in rural southwestern Pennsylvania for
the Kaufmann family. The main house constructed 1936-38,
followed by the guest house construction in 1939.
•Visitation: 4.5 million people since opening our doors in 1964, with
16 million in 2011.
Initial Use: Holiday home of the Kaufman family
Current use: Visitor Center, Museum House since 1964
Main house Total area: 1624.6 m²
Interior: 879.35 m²
Terraces: 745.24 m²
Guest House Area: 518.16 m²

19. Notable Facts
•Falling water was featured on the
cover of Time Magazine, January
1938
•Falling water is the only major
Wright-designed house to open to
the public with its furnishings,
artwork, and setting intact
•Frank Lloyd Wright once suggested
that the house’s concrete surfaces
be coated in gold leaf.

21. The reason why Falling water is so famous is because it is an illusion, today it is a National
Historic Landmark.. The illusion is that the building doesn't even appear to stand on solid
ground, stretching over a 30' waterfall instead. It was designed as a modern vacation house.
Wright was chosen for this task because the Kaufman's son was fascinated with Wrights ideas.
Both client and architect shared the common interest and love for nature. Ergo, Wright
decided to make the waterfall part of the new house.
To the clients shock, their perception of the house was to overlook the waterfall,
having a very nice view of it. However, the house was placed right on top of the falls, Wright
saying that he wanted them to live with the waterfalls, to make them part of their everyday
life, and not just to look at the environment encompassing them now and then.

22. The Kaufmanns lived in the city, but like many other Pittsburghers,
they loved to vacation in the mountains southeast of
Pittsburgh. They could hike in the forest, swim and fish in the
streams, go horseback riding, and do other outdoor activities.
Pittsburgh at the time was sometimes called the “Smoky City,” due
to the amount of air pollution from Pittsburgh’s steel
industry. People who could afford to take the train to the mountains
($1 round trip) relished the chance to breathe fresh, cool mountain
air.
The Kaufmanns had a summer camp for the department store
employees, located along a mountain stream called Bear Run. When
the Great Depression made daily living so hard for so many people,
the employees no longer had time or money to come up to
Kaufmanns Summer Camp. But Mr. and Mrs. Kaufmann and their
son dearly loved the mountains, and decided to make the summer
camp their own country estate.

23. Their summer camp home had been a very small cabin with no heat and no running
water. They slept outdoors on screened porches! The cabin stood very near a country
road. When traffic became noisy after the road was paved, the Kaufmanns decided it was time
to build a more modern vacation house.
They turned to Frank Lloyd Wright to design it for them. At the time, their son was fascinated
with Wright’s ideas and was even studying with him at Wright’s school, the Taliesin Fellowship.
The Kaufmanns, who had recently become very interested in modern art and design, also were
intrigued by Wright’s ideas, and they asked him to design a new vacation house. They knew
that Wright loved nature, as they did, and Wright knew that the Kaufmanns wanted something
very special at Bear Run, something only an innovative architect like himself could design. He
also knew that they loved the waterfall, and he decided to make it part of the new house

24. N

25. stairway from the living room giving direct
access

30. section

31. “The best-known private home for someone not of royal blood in the
history of the world."

32. 1. The bridge spans
over 28 feet.
2. The Main House is
3 stories, plus a
partial basement.
The Guest House is
2 stories, including
the Servants
Quarters.

33. -.
. Material -Wright used only 4 materials to build Fallingwater—
sandstone, reinforced concrete, steel and glass
-.
- Walls of glass form the south exposure, and a vertical shaft of mitered glass
merges with stone and steel to overlook the stream.
- The house is a marvel of twentieth-century technology.
TECHINIQUES USED
Wright chose the color of the concrete to match the back of a fallen
leaf.
Wright used a lot of clear glass to allow the outside to flow freely into the inside.
At certain times of day, the glass becomes very reflective and reminds some
people of the mirror-like surfaces of a calm pool of water. At night, the glass
seems to disappear.
All the stone at Falling water was quarried about 500 feet west of the waterfalls.

34. Design and construction
One problem of building was that the location of the north bank
of Bear Run was not large enough to provide a foundation for a
typically built Wright house.
The Kaufmanns planned to entertain large groups of people, so
the house would need to be larger than the plot allowed. Also,
Mr. and Mrs. Kaufmann requested separate bedrooms as well as
a bedroom for their adult son and an additional guest room.

37. Falling water, a large, low structure hovering like a boulder over the falls, seems
almost as much a part of nature as apart from it.
It’s been simplified into basic, essential shapes without added
ornamentation
Reinforced-concrete cantilever slabs project from the rocks to carry the house over
the stream.