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It's not generally known that "Fallingwater" refers not to the site, but to the roof leaks inseparable from any Frank Lloyd Wright design.
An architect told me this anecdote many years ago...
At the first dinner party in his new weekend home, Edgar Kaufmann sat down at the head of his dining table and immediately felt a drop of water strike the top of his head. He asked his butler to bring the telephone, and he phoned Frank Lloyd Wright. "Mr. Wright, water is leaking from your roof at Fallingwater, right onto my head in the dining room. Please tell me right away what you suggest I do about it"
not too far away from me in Cloquet, MN is what I believe to be, the only FLW designed gas station. Saw it written that he wanted to bring the gasoline across the inside of the canopy above the stalls and drop the hoses down from there. Apparently the regulating agency nixed that idea. Features a glassed-in lounge on the 2nd floor.
I've toured about 3 FLW houses, as well as Taliesin in AZ. The thing is, Wright could not have cared less whether or not the houses were comfortable for living. He always designed the houses and the furniture to be compatible. He could not have cared less if they caused the dwellers any discomfort. His furniture was the worst.
In my view, his brilliance lay in the way his buildings seemed to grow out of the landscape.
Favorite story. A friend was touring Fallingwater. She knew art, so she noticed that there was a Picasso hung in one of the rooms. She asked about it, "what is this Picasso?" she asked. The docent got all flustered, and just moved on. I don't think anyone had ever noticed it, or commented before, and they, for sure, did not want any notice taken of it. I bet it got taken down after that. It was like, how dare anyone think Picasso was more important the FLW?
Was there no building code back then? Or the code allowed it back then?
Today this is likely considered disturbing of the creek and wild life.
I don't think building code has anything to do with wildlife. You may have zoning issues that allow you to only build certain things in certain places, but that's not building code.
All of that said, Fallingwater is in the middle of nowhere and most likely didn't have any sort of environmental laws at the time, as it was built a long time ago.
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