FALLING WATERS, one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s most widely acclaimed works, was designed in 1936 for the family of Pittsburgh department store owner Edgar J. Kaufmann
It is located on PA Route 381 between the villages of Mill Run and Ohiopyle, In Southwestern Pennsylvania, North America.
Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959)
Work
- Significant Buildings
- Robie House
- Falling Water
- Johnson Wax Building
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
- Significant Projects
- Florida Southern College
Edgar Kaufmann Sr. (1885-1955)
“I always feel that I am a better man after having spent hours with you and regret that our paths cross so seldom. “
– Edgar Kaufmann Sr. to Frank Lloyd Wright, 1939
Forest Type at Falling Water Appalachian – Oak Forest
| Trees | Smaller Trees and Shrubs | Plants and Ferns |
| White Oak | Serviceberry | Violet |
| Red Oak | Mountain Laurel | Hepatica |
| Black Oak | Flowering Dogwood | False Solomon’s Seal |
| Hickory | Native Azaleas | Fire Pink |
| Red Maple | Witchhazel | Common Stonecrop |
| Tulip Tree | Blueberries | Trailing Arbutus |
| Chestnut Oak | Elder | Wild Geranium |
| Sugar Maple | Spicebush | Teaberry |
| Maple-Leaved Viburnum | Cut-Leaved Toothwart | |
| Mayapple | ||
| Virginia Creeper | ||
| Large-Flowered Trillium |
Forest Type at Falling Water Mesic Forest
| Trees | Smaller Trees and Shrubs | Plants and Ferns |
| Hemlock | Striped Maple | Clintonia |
| Black Birch | Great Rhododendron | Red Baneberry |
| Cucumber Magnolia | Serviceberry | Ferns |
| Tulip Tree | Witchhazel | Violets |
| Maples | Wild Hydrangea | Painted Trillium |
| Beech | Red-berried Elder | Merry Bells |
| Red Oaks | Spice Bush | Club Moss |
| Dogwood | False Solomon’s Seal |
Design Theory
Sitting
It fits into the hillside and extends out over the falls as if it has always belonged there.
Site Analysis
“There in a beautiful forest was a solid, high rock ledge rising beside a waterfall, and the natural thing seemed to be to cantilever the house from that rock bank over the falling water…Mr. Kaufmann’s loved the site where the house was built and liked to listen to the waterfall. and he lives intimately with the thing he loves.”
— Frank Lloyd Wright in an interview with Hugh Downs, 1954
Floor Analysis and Functional Distribution
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