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2. Frank Lloyd Wright
• Wright designed a series of residences and public buildings that became known as the leading examples of the
"Prairie School" of architecture. These were single-story homes with low, pitched roofs and long rows of casement
windows, employing only locally available materials and wood that was always unstained and unpainted, emphasizing
its natural beauty.
• Set in a very unusual location, the ideas implicit in the house are a highly dramatic and original combination of
modern technology within a natural setting. The notion of a house sitting over a waterfall evokes the imagination of
English Romantic poet, Wordsworth. At the same time, scientific technology has been integrated with a modern
concept. The cantilevered house which sits on a waterfall that is audible rather than visible was Frank Lloyd Wright’s
unique achievement.
• The entrance drive leads to the main living room, which extends in different directions in the ground floor. A staircase
leads directly leads to the waterfall. Terraces, balconies, kitchen and dining area all extend in different directions. The
bedroom on the second floor opens on to the terrace, which is cantilevered more than the terrace of the first floor.
The second floor is much smaller than the first and has only one bedroom with an adjoining roof terrace.
• All the three floor plans form a pattern in such a way that they are arranged round the single vertical element, which
is the natural stone tower-the staircase.
• At the foot of the staircase is the supported ground floor and the slope of the hill. The base of the building is made of
natural stone, the individual storeys are made up of reinforced concrete, and the walls of glass. The building literally
combines:
• Nature and architecture
• The organic and the geometric
• Natural stone and concrete
• Exterior and interior
• Nature and space