Project 1: Presentation: Arquitecture (script)

Frank Lloyd Wright was born in 1867 in Wisconsin EEUU and he died in 1959.

He developed a new concept in modern architecture called organic architecture, that was created as a point of union between humans and nature.

The better example is Falling Water House:

Falling Water House or Kaufman´s residence was designed in 1935 for the bussines man Edgar Kaufman.

Is in Mill Run Pensylvania, besides the Bear Run river and it cost 155.000$: 75000$ the main house, 22000$ finishing and furnishing it, 50000$the guests house,the servant quarters and the garage, and 8000$ the architect fee.

The main problem about building it was that the north bank of the bear run river was not large enough to provide the necessary space for a typically house, so Frank solve it by using a modular structure with the help of two engineers to distribute the weight.

Falling Water House was the Kaufman´s family weekend home from 1937 to 1963, when Kaufman decided to donate the property to the state of Pensylvania. Now it´s open to the public as a museum.

The other Frank Lloyd Wrigt´s best known building is the Guggenheim museum of New York:

The museum is located in the 5 avenue in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, just in front of central park, and it permantly host a collection of impressionist, postimpressionist, early modern and contemporary art.

The building was opened the 21st of October of 1959.

The museum had two different reforms, the first one was in 1993 annexing a rectangular tower behind the main building to expand the spaces for the exhibition, and the last one that started in 2005 and finished in 2008 annexing a clompletely new building behind it for the same reason.

The main building consist in a central tower hat is support by a spiral that goes from floor to top all around the central dome in the roof, the spiral consist in a ramp about 500 meters long.

The sad story about the building is that Wright, couldn´t see it finished owing to the fact that he died six months before the building was opened.