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    The document summarizes and compares the architectural works Villa Savoye designed by Le Corbusier in 1929 and Fallingwater designed by Frank Lloyd Wright from 1935-1938. Both buildings were intentionally built above the ground and incorporated nature through design elements like terraces and connections to the outdoors. However, Villa Savoye featured more geometric and modernist designs representing Corbusier's theories, while Fallingwater focused more on integrating the house into the natural surroundings through features like the balcony overlooking a waterfall. The document analyzes how the two major works symbolized different approaches to connecting architecture with nature despite some similarities in materials and suspended designs.

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    The document summarizes and compares the architectural works Villa Savoye designed by Le Corbusier in 1929 and Fallingwater designed by Frank Lloyd Wright from 1935-1938. Both buildings were intentionally built above the ground and incorporated nature through design elements like terraces and connections to the outdoors. However, Villa Savoye featured more geometric and modernist designs representing Corbusier's theories, while Fallingwater focused more on integrating the house into the natural surroundings through features like the balcony overlooking a waterfall. The document analyzes how the two major works symbolized different approaches to connecting architecture with nature despite some similarities in materials and suspended designs.

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    The document summarizes and compares the architectural works Villa Savoye designed by Le Corbusier in 1929 and Fallingwater designed by Frank Lloyd Wright from 1935-1938. Both buildings were intentionally built above the ground and incorporated nature through design elements like terraces and connections to the outdoors. However, Villa Savoye featured more geometric and modernist designs representing Corbusier's theories, while Fallingwater focused more on integrating the house into the natural surroundings through features like the balcony overlooking a waterfall. The document analyzes how the two major works symbolized different approaches to connecting architecture with nature despite some similarities in materials and suspended designs.

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    Amanda Krause

    AP Art History

    Mrs. Quimby

    February 1, 2019

    “‘Villa Savoye’ (#135) versus ‘Fallingwater’ (#139)”

    The building Villa Savoye was designed by Le Corbusier in 1929 in Poissy, France with

    steel and reinforced concrete. The ground floor walls are suspended and painted green so that the

    house looks like a floating box. The exterior walls are white and smooth with strips of small

    windows. The rigidness of the outside contrasts with the fluidity of the interior, with a multistory

    curving ramp. The ramp winds from the entrance up to the salon and flows seamlessly into the

    roof terrace outside. It peaks in the sunroom that crowns the house, which appears to be an

    abstract sculpture when viewed from below. The geometric concepts embody his concept of

    form and its consideration of procession and proportion connect the building to Classical ideals.

    The piece offers an escape from the crowded city as it was built on a large unrestricted site that

    allowed Corbusier creative freedom. He spent many years developing his theories on modern

    architecture as he sought to isolate type forms, universal elements of design that can work

    together in a system. He also argued that beauty was in both new technology and ancient works.

    He designed a series of houses in the 1920s to further develop his ideas and ended up with the

    Five Points of Architecture in 1926. This system could be applied to any architectural site and

    demanded columns, roof terraces, a free plan, and ribbon windows, all of which the Villa Savoye

    had. It integrates indoor and outdoor spaces to allow the family to spend time outdoors in the

    most efficient way. The building represents the peak of a decade when the architect worked to

    incorporate the essence of modern architecture. Corbusier designed it to be both a functional


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    house and modernist sculpture and to maximize leisure in the machine age. The whole building

    symbolizes Corbusier’s re-conception of the nature of architecture and his attempt to express

    classicism through architectural modernism.

    The building Fallingwater was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright from 1935 to 1938 in

    Bear Run, Pennsylvania with reinforced concrete, glass, steel, and stone. Wright was

    commissioned by Edgar Kauffman Jr. to design a “weekend home” in the country and was

    influenced by every architectural style when it was under construction. After seeing the location,

    he rejected the concept of the house having a conventional view of the waterfall. Instead, he

    offered to make the house part of it so it gave the illusion that the stream flowed through it

    instead of alongside it. The integration of nature in the house was due to Wright’s belief that

    human life is part of nature. The house has no walls facing the falls and a central stone core for

    the fireplaces and stone columns. A rock outcropping is projected above the living room floor

    into the heart, further uniting the house and the earth. The glass windows leads the eye out to the

    horizon and woods instead of the falls. His use of corner turning windows without mullions

    causes the corners to vanish. The balcony of the second floor master bedroom extends six feet

    beyond the living room on the first floor. Cracks began appearing in the balcony floors soon after

    they were poured due to the lack of support. Ever since, they have been repeatedly repaired

    because the beams continued to sag. To avoid collapse, tensioned cables were used to stabilize

    the building. The house is one of the most famous in America due to the fact that it was built

    during the mid-1930s, which was the darkest time for architecture as the country’s financial

    system had collapsed with the failure of banks. At the same time, Wright’s reputation was

    fading, but the success of this house brought him back into the architectural spotlight and gave

    him the new reputation of “the world’s greatest architect.”


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    Both buildings are similar in their form and what they represent. They are both

    intentionally suspended above ground and are made with similar materials. In addition, they both

    deal with the importance of nature and how it connects with human life. Both houses are built in

    a relatively outcast area away from the city to allow that connection with nature. Wright’s house

    has a balcony to overlook the falls and nature elements inside to unify them and Corbusier’s has

    a sunroom at the top of the house. Both pieces allow the people living there to be a part of nature

    in the most leisurely and luxury way possible.

    However, both pieces are also very different. For example, Corbusier’s house has both

    geometric and fluid elements while Wright’s focuses more on the nature aspect, disregarding the

    “types” of elements. In addition, Corbusier’s work has more modern elements in it and

    represents his re-conception of architecture while Wright incorporated nature into his house

    solely to unify human life and nature and has no trace of modern architecture.

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