Wright Chat

Applications are now being accepted for three summer residency study programs at Fallingwater--one for high school students, one for college undergraduate students enrolled in an architectural degree program, and one for teachers of any subject, at any grade level. For each program twelve people wil...

Fallingwater does have heat--2 oil fueled furnaces for water radiators--one for the Main House and one for the Guest House. Radiators are built in behind the FLW designed furniture. We usually keep it in the low- to mid- 60s. I am sure when the Kaufmanns lived here they used there fireplaces in the ...

At Fallingwater, we keep the holiday decorations pretty simple. Pine boughs are placed on the shelves above the Living Room fireplace and we put poinsettas in each room. We light a fire in the fireplace if the projected high is under 40 degrees F.

This month's Preservation Magazine has an article exploring the appropriateness of executing Frank Lloyd Wright's unbuilt plans



http://www.nthp.org/magazine/story/index.htm

The current issue of Preservation magazine features an article "on the trail of some of America's most heralded homes, and the elusive man (Wright) who built them"



for an excerpt of the article, see



http://www.nationaltrust.org/Magazine/ ... aveler.htm

I got my undergraduate architecture degree at Miami University in Oxford, OH, as well as a degree in interdisciplinary studies. At Miami, a major in architecture leads to the Bachelor of Arts in Architecture. This is a four-year pre-professional program that prepares you for the two-year Master of A...