Friday, July 1, 2011

7/4/2011: Visit to something I feel was designed well: Falling Water











Falling Water, Frank Lloyd Wright's iconic house, lies a top a stream in the southern Pennsyvania foothills.  Vertical stone pillars anchor it to the ledge rock and support strong horizontal bands of floor slabs and balconies.  The sunlit cream-colored balconies are set off by the dark shadows underneath.  The solidity of the structure and the rock it sits on are softened by the sun-glistened waters of the rushing stream below.  My sketches try to capture the interplay of the strong vertical and horizontal elements of the design. 




1 comment:

  1. love your sketches, loose and tight at the same time, really describes the intriquing qulaity of the FLW falling water design

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