Reading Response 12

Falling Water
This reading response was very interesting to me because it it on Falling Water.  This is a good topic for me to explore and learn more about because it is a place where I actually got to visit and see in person.  Therefor the stuff that I learn about it, I feel like I can relate and actually visualize it since I actually saw it in person.

-- it was designed in 1935

-- was for Edgar J. Kaufmann and his family

-- used for their family weekend and summer retreat home

-- on Bear Run 

-- in Mill Run Pennsylvania

-- made of reinforced concrete

-- had overhanging cantilevered terraces

-- built right on top of the waterfall

-- has a stair case in living room leading down to the actual water

-- was known as "organic architecture"

-- was built into the site instead of on it

-- has rustic, horizontally coursed yellowish stones

-- also has smooth, stuccoed surfaces on balconies and rooflines

-- windows hidden in recesses

-- indoor-outdoor rooms were created

-- rock ledges rise up into the house

-- these appear like ancient ruins

-- site is very remote and secluded in the woods

-- separate servants' quarter and garage 

-- much more forested today then it was when first built

*The pictures above are al ones that I took while on the field trip to Falling Water*