Fallingwater Fallingwater is a house designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935 in rural southwestern Pennsylvania, 43 miles (69 km) southeast of Pittsburgh.[4] The house was built partly over a waterfall on Bear Run in the Mill Run section of Stewart Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, located in the Laurel Highlands of the Allegheny Mountains. The house was designed as a weekend home for the family of Liliane Kaufmann and her husband, Edgar J. Kaufmann, Sr., owner of Kaufmann's Department Store. History[edit] At age 67, Frank Lloyd Wright was given the opportunity to design and construct three buildings. The Kaufmanns[edit] Edgar J. The Kaufmanns lived in "La Tourelle", a French Norman estate in Fox Chapel designed in 1923 for Edgar J. Construction[edit] The Kaufmanns planned to entertain large groups of people, so the house needed to be larger than the original plot allowed. The strong horizontal and vertical lines are a distinctive feature of Fallingwater Cost[edit] Usage[edit] Design[edit]
Charles Voysey (architect) Charles Francis Annesley Voysey (1857–1941) was an English architect and furniture and textile designer. Voysey's early work was as a designer of wallpapers, fabrics and furnishings in a simple Arts and Crafts style, but he is renowned as the architect of a number of notable country houses. He was one of the first people to understand and appreciate the significance of industrial design. In 1874 Voysey was articled for five years to the architect J. In 1879 Voysey spent a brief period as assistant to the architect Henry Saxon Snell (1830–1904), and from 1880 to 1881 he worked as an assistant in the office of George Devey, who was a follower of his father's Theistic Church. Textile design circa 1888 Voysey's designs in the field of applied art included furniture, wallpapers, fabrics, carpets, tiles, metalwork, ceramics and graphic design. Voysey was a distinguished designer of flat patterns for wallpapers, fabrics, carpets and tiles . Voysey died in Winchester in 1941.[7] References
Cross Scalar Variation I : rocker-lange Rocker-Lange Architects Principals Ingeborg M. Rocker Christian J. Cambridge, MA, London, England, Hong Kong Projects Product Design 2010 Zhuhai Lounge 2009 SP-Table_01 2009 SP-Table_02 2009 Urban Adapter Research 2010 Parametric Structures, Spring Seminar, The University of Hong Kong, Department of Architecture 2009 On the Brink, Spring Seminar, Harvard University, GSD Versioning: Architecture as Series Cross scalar and functional scaling: adaptive facades Algorithmically controlled surfaces Publications 2008 Versioning: Architecture as Series? Taliesin (studio) Taliesin /ˌtæliˈɛsɨn/, sometimes known as Taliesin East after 1937, was the estate of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Located 2.5 miles (4.0 km) south of the village of Spring Green, Wisconsin, United States, the 600-acre (240 ha) property was developed on land that originally belonged to Wright's maternal family. The design of the original house, Taliesin I, was consistent with the design principles of the Prairie School, emulating the flatness of the plains and the natural limestone outcroppings of the Driftless Area. Wright designed the estate after his affair with Mamah Borthwick made headlines and forced Wright out of his original home of Oak Park, Illinois. After a few months of emotional recovery, Wright set out to rebuild the Taliesin estate. Taliesin was donated to the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation upon Wright's death in 1959. Jones Valley, the Wisconsin River valley in which Taliesin sits, was formed during Pre-Illinoian glaciation.
Thomas Chippendale Marquetry commode attributed to Chippendale, c. 1778 Thomas Chippendale (probably born at Otley, West Riding of Yorkshire, baptised at Otley 16 June [O.S. 5 June] 1718 – November 1779)[1] was a London cabinet-maker and furniture designer in the mid-Georgian, English Rococo, and Neoclassical styles. In 1754 he published a book of his designs, titled The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director. The designs are regarded as reflecting the current London fashion for furniture for that period[2] and were used by other cabinet makers outside London. Life[edit] "A Design for a State Bed" from the Director, 1762 Chippendale was the only child of John Chippendale (1690–1768), joiner, and his first wife Mary (née Drake) (1693–1729). In 1749 Chippendale rented a modest house in Conduit Court, near Covent Garden. There is a statue and memorial plaque dedicated to Chippendale outside The Old Grammar School Gallery in Manor Square, in his home town of Otley, near Leeds, Yorkshire. Work[edit] See also[edit]
Architecture for Humanity Taliesin West Taliesin West pool & fountain. Taliesin West was architect Frank Lloyd Wright's winter home and school in the desert from 1937 until his death in 1959 at the age of 91. Today it is the main campus of the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture[3] and houses the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. History[edit] Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship began to "trek" to Arizona each winter in 1933. Wright believed this to be the perfect spot for such a building, a place of residence, a place of business and a place to learn. Being in the desert water could scarcely be found. When Wright and his family arrived they found Native American petroglyphs among the rocks. Design[edit] Wright felt very strongly about the connection to the desert. The structure's walls are made of local desert rocks, stacked within wood forms, filled with concrete. Natural light also played a major part in the design. Every part of Taliesin West bears Frank Lloyd Wright’s personal touch. Legacy[edit] In 2008, the U.S.
Thomas Sheraton Thomas Sheraton (1751 – 22 October 1806) was a furniture designer, one of the "big three" English furniture makers of the 18th century, along with Thomas Chippendale and George Hepplewhite.[1] Biography[edit] Starting in 1791 he published in four volumes The Cabinet Maker's and Upholsterer's Drawing Book. In 1803 he published The Cabinet Dictionary, a compendium of instructions on the techniques of cabinet and chair making. Sheraton's name is associated with the styles of furniture fashionable in the 1790s and early 19th century. See also[edit] References[edit]
Reconstructing Frank Lloyd Wright, Block by Block - Design Frank Lloyd Wright worked in 36 of the 50 United States, plus in Canada, England, and Japan. Were you to embark on a quest to find a bunch of his buildings all in one place, you’d probably think to start in Illinois. You might then hie it north to Wisconsin. Or Michigan. Starting in the mid-thirties, Florida Southern hired Wright to design a total of 18 projects. Six of Wright’s 18 designs for Florida Southern College were left unbuilt—until now. It’s been a painstaking project. In the end, rewards are far outweighing frustrations: Baker, who says he became an architect because of Frank Lloyd Wright, calls working on this project “one of the great joys” of his life. Project: Usonian House, Florida Southern College, Lakeland, Florida Architect: Jeff Baker, Mesick Cohen Wilson Baker Architects, working from plans by Frank Lloyd Wright Builder: Rodda Construction, Lakeland, Fla. Learn more about markets featured in this article: Lakeland, FL.
John Ruskin John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, also an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects ranging from geology to architecture, myth to ornithology, literature to education, and botany to political economy. His writing styles and literary forms were equally varied. Ruskin penned essays and treatises, poetry and lectures, travel guides and manuals, letters and even a fairy tale. The elaborate style that characterised his earliest writing on art was later superseded by a preference for plainer language designed to communicate his ideas more effectively. In all of his writing, he emphasised the connections between nature, art and society. He was hugely influential in the latter half of the 19th century, and up to the First World War. Early life (1819–1846)[edit] Genealogy[edit] Childhood and education[edit] Travel[edit] First publications[edit] Oxford[edit]