Frank Lloyd Wright

Architecture is beginning, always beginning. It was not made by the Greeks nor by the Romans. It wasn't even made in the Georgian Period. It is something that has to be made afresh all the time, as life, as growth changes.

One of the works that secured considerable attention was known as "Fallingwater."

Wright experienced many ups and does in his career. After one financial collapse which also eliminated the clients he had started to attract, Wright set about creating an ideal culture and its architectural setting. He exhibited his Broadacre City in 1935, and in this design Wright spread the suburb out across the countryside. Large houses would sit upon the highest ground. In the 1930s, Wright would have one of his most productive periods in the thirties, and he was able in this period to amalgamate the influences he had received with his own sensibilities to produce fresh masterpieces of his own. "Fallingwater" was one of these creations.

The structure known as "Fallingwater" is actually the Kaufmann House. The home was built across a stream called Bear Run in Connellsville, Pennsylvania. "Fallingwater" should be compared to

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, or the Barnsdall House, was built in Los Angeles in 1920. It is a Mayan-style building that took four years to construct. It is a massive complex of individual units, courtyards, gardens, pergolas, and bridges. The whole is a mass of poured concrete. There are relatively few windows in this structure. In a way, the building is a maze, as fitted the desires of Aline Barnsdall, who commissioned it. The house stands today on the grounds that have been donated to the city as Barnsdall Park in East Hollywood. This house was one of several built by Wright in the 1920s in the greater Los Angeles area with a similar sense of enclosing space and closing out the world. Aline Barnsdall wanted to be shut away from her critics, those who criticized her for her Bolshevism. This house, like the Charles Ennis House in Los Angeles or La Miniatura in Pasadena, seemed to increase privacy and to show a retreat from social contact. These homes are all concrete, expanding privacy into seclusion and even escape. They were built with textile blocks, and they are seen as being built with blocks placed together rather than with a central conception. The emphasis is on the parts and on detail. At Hollyhock House, the different sides show some
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