The Architect’s Thoughts about the Building
“The rock-ledges of a stone-quarry are a story and a
longing to me. There is suggestion in the strata and
character in the formations.
I like to sit and feel it, as it is. Often I have thought,
were great monumental buildings ever given me to
build, I would go to the Grand Canyon of Arizona to
ponder them… For in the stony bone-work of the
Earth, the principles that shaped stone as it lies, or as
it rises and remains to be sculptured by winds and
tide – there sleep forms and styles enough for all the
ages for all of Man.
[5]
”
“The visit to the waterfall in the woods stays with me
and a domicile has taken vague shape in my mind to
the music of the stream. When contours come you
will see it. Meantime, to you my affection.
[6]
”
“This structure might serve to indicate that the sense
of shelter…has no limitations as to form except the
materials used and the methods by which they are
employed for what purpose.
[7]
”
“Looking back years later at what he had created
there, in this enchanted glen, Wright said, ‘Fallingwater
is a great blessing – one of the great blessings to be
experienced here on earth. I think that nothing
yet ever equaled the coordination, sympathetic
expression of the great principle of repose, where
forest and stream and rock and all the elements of
structure are combined so quietly that really you
listen not to any noise whatsoever, although the music
of the stream is there. But you listen to Fallingwater
the way you listen to the quiet of the country.’
[8]
”
Above: Desk and view
Left: Living Room
© Yukio Futagawa
© Hedrich-Blessing
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