Journal 1
I remember one afternoon after coming home from school, my dad showed me a famous architect named Frank Lloyed Wright. He told me he wanted to visit this specific house designed by Wright in 1935which was located in the rural parts of Pennsylvania. During this time, I was in high school deciding what major I wanted to pursue in college. I was deciding between architecture/interior design or business. My dad showed me the house called Fallingwater designed by Wright. After seeing this structure, I was immediately amazed by this and started to research on this house and the purpose of it. I love how this house was not meant to be a public space for people to see and use. This house was designed for a family who wanted this to be their weekend home or their rest house. This family enjoyed being in the outdoors especially hiking and horseback riding. And they wanted a place to reflect on it. Eventually, it turned into a place where people could visit to appreciate. I thought it was so interesting that he was able to think of designing a house which was partly over a waterfall. He could have designed the house next to the waterfall but he decided to put it over which made it physically appealing. This architecture structure inspired me to take architecture to study because it made me understand how space can affect someones emotions because of their surroundings. Additionally, I’m intrigued in the way he incorporated nature in this structure. The way he was able to use what was already there into his architecture is astonishing. I want to be able to use what is already there from nature while altering different aspects to make the space a comfortable place to be in.