The concept behind this design is really fascinating and actually harkens back to very very old house design, like 1500s, where people would have a little cubby with benches next to a fire.
Read about Frank Lloyd Wright and his first few house designs (i think the Fallingwater house is a key one) to get the bigger picture on this. He (in ~1910 i think) literally brought back an element of domestic architecture we’d left behind. Comfort pits from the 70s are downstream of this, in my opinion.
Fallingwater is very interesting, visited as a teenager, with no concept of anything, especially fluid dynamics, but I had seen how heavy snowfall led to heavy river rise that flooded my home and fucked up my life. And i had a vague idea that we all understand, which is that water always wins. So when I saw the interior of Fallingwater, I was like, this shit is not a place humans could live.
The concept behind this design is really fascinating and actually harkens back to very very old house design, like 1500s, where people would have a little cubby with benches next to a fire.
Read about Frank Lloyd Wright and his first few house designs (i think the Fallingwater house is a key one) to get the bigger picture on this. He (in ~1910 i think) literally brought back an element of domestic architecture we’d left behind. Comfort pits from the 70s are downstream of this, in my opinion.
Fallingwater is very interesting, visited as a teenager, with no concept of anything, especially fluid dynamics, but I had seen how heavy snowfall led to heavy river rise that flooded my home and fucked up my life. And i had a vague idea that we all understand, which is that water always wins. So when I saw the interior of Fallingwater, I was like, this shit is not a place humans could live.
Tl:dr fallingwater is leaky and damp
I also saw Falling Water as a teen. I was in awe … of the fact that an artist could actually have the name “Lipchitz”.