View Frank Lloyd Wright\'s Fallingwater at HOUSE FOUR: The House on a Waterfall—

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View Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater at HOUSE FOUR: The House on a Waterfall—Fallingwater, Edgar J. Kaufmann House, Mill Run, Pennsylvania. 1935–37 [PDF file size 352 KB]. From the photos and other information presented on this page and from other sources you may find, evaluate the work using the critical analysis example at the conclusion of Chapter 4 as a guide. You will also want to refer to Chapter 4 and the accompanying PowerPoint for the technical terms and concepts necessary for the analysis. Be sure to include all points of the outline (minimum one full page in length). Be sure to include a convincing, inclusive conclusion at the end of your critical analysis and a bibliography of at least two sources that you used to prepare your analysis, one of which may be the class text. Do not use and cite Wikipedia. Instead, visit the Excelsior College Library to learn about academic sources. The page on Evaluating Information Evaluating Information includes helpful sections on "Print vs. Web Resources," Evaluation Criteria," Evaluation Scenarios," and "Media Literacy." Write a 500-750 word critical analysis. Follow APA style, using the Excelsior College Library resources on learning to use APA Style. Excelsior College Library resources on learning to use APA Style

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Let's discuss about the most historic and must see buildings in the world.

1) The house on a waterfall is constructed by Frank Lloyd Wright in the year 1935 amidst the nature on the 30' waterfall. That house is considered to be one of the historical places in Pennsylvania. This is also called as the "fallingwater" house.

2) The key features of the fallingwater architecture is, it is made up of only 4 materials.

3) The house terraces echo the pattern of the rock ledges below.

4) Architect Frank Lloyd designed fallingwater to be in harmony with the nature. Wild animals live near it. Trees surround it, water swirls underneath it, huge boulders rest at its feet. It is truly a paradise on earth.

5) All the stone at the fallingwater was quarried about 500 feet west of the waterfalls. Workers have arranged the rock in a rough shifting manner such that it looks like the rock coming from the ground.

6) Steel is available in almost throughout the house in railings, shelves, windows and doors. Wright painted everything that is in steel with red color, to ensure that it matches and resembles the steel.

7) Wright used a lot of glass in the building which at the day time resembles a mirror from outside and at night it becomes completely opaque.

8) Wright chose pale ochre color of the concrete to match the back of fallen rhododendron leaf.

9) Wright used a semi circle to allow a tree grow through the trellis near fallingwater's front door.

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