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

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

between September 1935 and 1936

- 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.

• dessin préliminaire
• dessin de présentation

Graphite and coloured pencil

sheet: 45.3 x 81.7 cm

DR1985:0288

• line drawing
• freehand drawing

• perspective drawing

• exterior view

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]

• architecture

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