The Rosenbaum House, Florence, AL.
The house is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site and was hailed as the ”best all-time work of American architecture” by the American Institute of Architects.
Taliesin West, Scottsdale, AZ.
www.fallingwater.org
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Taliesin West, Scottsdale, Arizona While living in Wisconsin in the mid-1930s, Wright began traveling to the Southwest to escape the harsh Midwest winters. In 1937 he purchased several hundred acres of desert land in the foothills of the McDowell Mountains just outside Scottsdale and established Taliesin West to serve as his winter vacation home—and later as an education center where he would instruct architectural students. Inspired by Arizona’s desert landscape, FLW constructed Taliesin West out of native rock and cement mixed with sand and other local materials. With its squat, low-slung silhouette framed by hefty redwood beams, Wright created a structure that blended remarkably into the environment. The site is now the home of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and guests can take part in a number of visit options, including a guided tour and a self-guided audio tour.
Fallingwater, Mill Run, PA.
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Fallingwater, Mill Run, Pennsylvania With the possible exception of the Guggenheim Museum, Fallingwater is the most famous building FLW ever created. Wright designed it in 1935, at his professional nadir, as a mountain retreat for Pittsburgh retail mogul Edgar J. Kaufmann, who wanted a home near the waterfalls of Bear Run in the Laurel Highlands of Western Pennsylvania. Wright took that notion to its extreme. “I want you to live with the waterfall,” he reportedly told Kaufmann, “Not just to look at it.” As Eric Jaffe describes it in the January 2008 issue of Smithsonian , “Cantilevered concrete terraces hover some 30 feet above the falls. The incessant sound of rushing water permeates the home, yet never overwhelms. A boulder juts through the living room and doubles as a hearth. During a visit to the house, I was struck by Wright’s vanishing windows, which opened outward from wall corners, leaving no panes to obstruct the wilderness view.”
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www.franklloydwright.org/taliesin-west
The Rosenbaum House, Florence, Alabama Rosenbaum House is the only Wright-designed structure in Alabama and one of very few in the Deep South. Originally built in 1939 as a family home for newlyweds Stanley and Mildred Rosenbaum, the house served as a private residence for six decades and is now open to the public as a museum.
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