Monticello & Falling Water

This week, IARC took a road trip to Monticello in Virginia and Falling Water in Pennsylvania. Both homes were amazing for their time and being able to tour the interior space was a great experience.

We started the tour here but unfortunately we were unable to take any pictures of the inside of the home.
The views from the house were amazing.

We all wanted this space as our personal design studio.

This hallway is under the house and leads to where the "dependencies" worked and lived. Its a very different space than the main house.

The space under the house only had natural light from windows at ground level.

Thomas Jefferson's grave

On a lighter note...we had fun!

Falling Water is simply inspiring! Every square inch was thought about and I still cannot believe Wright completed the design in three hours after seeing the location only once! The home comes right out of the earth literally and connects perfectly with the nature around it. The owners of the home wanted it built near their favorite stream, but Wright decided to build it on top of the stream.
The owners brought many interesting artifacts back from their travels and were on display around the house. They fit in well since Wright's design was simple and organic.

Support beams go right into the rock.
This is a third generation tree and Wright did not want to remove it so he designed the beam to go around it.

Even the larger support beams were directly connected to the earth.

Lots of windows bring nature inside.

Some people sketched, I took pictures of them sketching.

This is one of my favorite pieces of furniture Wright designed for the home.