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ContentsFrank Lloyd Wright .5History of Fallingwater . 6Facts from the Project .8The Architect’s Thoughts about the Building . 9Building Instructions .11A Word from the Artist .104LEGO Architecture: Bringing two worlds together .105References . 1073

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Frank Lloyd WrightPhoto: OBMA. F.L. Wright Fdn.Frank Lloyd Wright, 1867–1959, is recognized worldwide as one ofthe greatest architects of the 20th century. His work heralded anew approach to architecture using innovations in design andengineering made possible by newly developed technology andmaterials.No other American architect’s work endures, or remains ascompelling, as that of Frank Lloyd Wright. His was a unique stylerooted in nature, that he called “organic architecture,” emphasizingthe harmonious relationship between a building and itslandscape. It changed how we came to view our buildings, towns,and the land around us. F.L. Wright Fdn.5

History of Fallingwater “He had the design totally in his head, as always, andas he recommended to the apprentices, if no wholeidea, no architecture.” John Lautner, letter of June 20,1974. Lautner was an apprentice from 1933 to 1939.“Mr. Wright was not at all disturbed by the fact that notone line had been drawn. As was normal, he askedme to bring him the topographical map of Bear Runto his draughting table in the sloping-roofed studioat Taliesin, a rustic but wondrous room in itself.I stood by, on his right side, keeping his coloredpencils sharpened. Every line he drew, vertically andespecially horizontally, I watched with completefascination. Mr. Kaufmann arrived and Mr. Wrightgreeted him in his wondrously warm manner. In thestudio, Mr. Wright explained the sketches to his client.Mr. Kaufmann, a very intelligent but practicalgentleman, merely said. ‘I thought you would placethe house near the waterfall, not over it.’ Mr. Wrightsaid quietly, ‘E.J. I want you to live with the waterfall,not just to look at it, but for it to become an integralpart of your lives.’ And it did just that.” Bob Mosher,Letter of Jan. 20, 1974.“In 1963, Edgar Kaufmann Jr. gave his home, Fallingwater,to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy with theintent that it be open to the public for tours. His giftconstitutes one of the most magnanimous acts in theannals of architectural and fine art history. This onebuilding, undoubtedly the most famous privateresidence built in a free, democratic society, has beenwidely published the world over since its completionin 1939, and its influence continues to this day.[1]”balconies above it, emphasizes this element ofprojecting forms merging building and landscape.In most architecture of the world, balconies are smallerfeatures of a larger, more stable mass. At Fallingwater,the entire house is composed of these projectionsfrom and above the rock ledges.The rooms themselves, with their adjacent outdoorterraces, are all a part of broad-sweeping balconiesreaching out to the branches of the surroundingtrees, and over the stream and waterfalls below.[2]”“Fallingwater is a country home, and in the annals ofso-called country homes it differs from any otherever built up to that time. Fallingwater achievessomething that no country home successfully hadbefore: it emphasizes, in every place and at everyturn, the wonder and beauty of nature in thiswoodland setting.[3]”“Fallingwater is that rare work which is composed ofsuch delicate balacing of forces and counterforces,transformed into spaces thrusting horizontally,vertically and diagonally, that the whole achieves theserenity which marks all great works of art.[4]”“The famous view of the house, taken from downstreamlooking up to the water cascades and under the F.L. Wright Fdn.6

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Facts from the ProjectArchitect: .Frank Lloyd WrightClassification: . Vacation HomeYear: . 1935Construction Type: . Reinforced Poured Concretewith Limestone FasciaSquare Feet: .2,885 sq. ft. interiorOriginal Cost: . 155,000Top right: ScaffoldingBottom left: Construction workersBottom right: Construction8

The Architect’s Thoughts about the Building“The rock-ledges of a stone-quarry are a story and alonging to me. There is suggestion in the strata andcharacter in the formations.I like to sit and feel it, as it is. Often I have thought,were great monumental buildings ever given me tobuild, I would go to the Grand Canyon of Arizona toponder them For in the stony bone-work of theEarth, the principles that shaped stone as it lies, or asit rises and remains to be sculptured by winds andtide – there sleep forms and styles enough for all theages for all of Man.[5]”“The visit to the waterfall in the woods stays with meand a domicile has taken vague shape in my mind tothe music of the stream. When contours come youwill see it. Meantime, to you my affection. [6]”“This structure might serve to indicate that the senseof shelter has no limitations as to form except thematerials used and the methods by which they areemployed for what purpose.[7]”“Looking back years later at what he had createdthere, in this enchanted glen, Wright said, ‘Fallingwateris a great blessing – one of the great blessings to beexperienced here on earth. I think that nothingyet ever equaled the coordination, sympatheticexpression of the great principle of repose, whereforest and stream and rock and all the elements ofstructure are combined so quietly that really youlisten not to any noise whatsoever, although the musicof the stream is there. But you listen to Fallingwaterthe way you listen to the quiet of the country.’[8]” Hedrich-BlessingAbove: Desk and viewLeft: Living Room Yukio Futagawa9

Side elevationFront elevationAdam Reed TuckerArchitectural LEGO ArtistPlanview

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1x1x2x1x3x8x2“Bring out the nature of the materials, lettheir nature intimately into your scheme. Reveal the nature of the wood, plaster,brick or stone in your designs, they areall by nature friendly and beautiful.”– Frank Lloyd Wright, 190813

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3x1x1x1x3x1x1x1x9x14“By organic architecture I mean anarchitecture that develops from withinoutward in harmony with the conditionsof its being, as distinguished from onethat is applied from without.”– Frank Lloyd Wright, 191425

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1x1x1x4x1x1x20“Architecture is the triumphof Human imagination overmaterials, methods, and mento put man into possessionof his own Earth.”– Frank Lloyd Wright, 193031

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3x1x4x1x2x32“Stone is inflorescent: stone is the massresidue of intense heat. Stone is thereforethe simplest mass material. As humanhands directed by the imagination beginupon it, it becomes a shapely block.”– Frank Lloyd Wright, 193743

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4x1x1x1x2x1x12“I had an idea that the horizontal planesin buildings, those planes parallel to theearth, identify themselves with the ground– make the building belong to the ground.I began putting this idea to work.”– Frank Lloyd Wright, 194355

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1x1x3x1x2x1x24“Organic architecture takes thisthought from within the nature of thething. It is a profound nature study.”– Frank Lloyd Wright, 195267

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1x1x1x2x21x1x1“Rhythm in a building is largely a question of thethird dimension or the depth of the building. A thingis out of place when it is not in rhythm. And whatis rhythm in a building? In music you listen to it, inpainting you look at it, in a building you live with it.”– Frank Lloyd Wright, 195279

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“Organic architecture sees the third dimensionnever as weight or mere thickness but alwaysas depth. Depth an element of space; the third(or thickness) dimension transformed to aspace dimension.”– Frank Lloyd Wright, 1957