Preliminary perspective sketch for Fallingwater, Bear Run, Pennsylvania, as seen from the hill above, showing oblique view of north elevation

People:

Frank Lloyd Wright (architect)
Unknown (draughtsman)
Taliesin Fellowship (draughtsman)
Taliesin Fellowship (architect)
Edgar J. Kaufmann (client)

Title:

Preliminary perspective sketch for Fallingwater, Bear Run, Pennsylvania, as seen from the hill above, showing oblique view of north elevation

Date:

between September 1935 and 1936

Description:

- This preparatory drawing shows an oblique bird's-eye view for the north side of Fallingwater, a three-storey single-family dwelling designed as a part masonry, part cantilevered concrete slab construction. Rough quarry stone walls form a series of staggered blind screens which protect the privacy of the family sleeping quarters on the second and third floors. A broad concrete slab (later built as concrete trellis beams) serves doubly as bridge and canopy over the main entrance below.

Form:
drawings

Quantity / Object type:
1 drawing(s)

Stage and Purpose:

preliminary drawing
presentation drawing (proposal)

Technique and media:

Graphite and coloured pencil

Dimensions:

sheet: 45.3 x 81.7 cm

Reference number:

DR1985:0288

Drawing Type:

line drawing
freehand drawing

Method of Projection:

perspective drawing

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

numbered - by a member of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, in graphite, l.l.: "3602.02" inscribed - by an unknown hand (the architect ?), in red pencil, b.: "377" [encircled] numbered - by unknown hand (at MOMA ?), in graphite, verso, l.r.: "61.1758" [twice]

Subject:

architecture

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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