Thursday, September 25, 2008

Fallingwater

I learned by chance that Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater house was just three miles off my route. Naturally, my pedalling got interrupted for a morning to go visit. You've no doubt seen this iconic place before (in _North By Northwest_ if nowhere else).



The countryside around is pure Pennsylvania, lovely rolling forests.

The house itself is spectacular. The interiors are well preserved, and the tour guides quite good.

I really felt here, for the first time, how much Wright is a bridge between Morris and Art Nouveau and the International Style. The interior details are a streamlined, functional version of the craftsman organic aesthetic, but the structural aspects look forward to the midcentury modernism of the skyscraper: he uses a central core for utilities, and hangs a bunch of cantilevered reinforced concrete platforms and terraces around it as the main spaces of the house. Very cool to see.

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