How Did American Architecture Influence Modern Architecture?

18th Century, one of the important epochs in the human civilization, marks the period when Architects and Artists began to see and be open to the great revival of interest in the learning and values of modernism. Throughout this era, Modern Style and International Style significantly contribute in influencing its Architecture Style Period. Although both of them are parts of the 18th Century Architecture Style Period, each style has remarkably distinguishable modern language and modern antiquity in it. The first building discussed in this essay would be the Kaufmann Residence or as known as Fallingwater House which was built during the early Modern period, while the other building is Farnsworth House, which was made in international period with

The commission for Fallingwater was an individual development for the American planner Frank Lloyd Wright, it also denoted a defining moment in his vocation. After this late-vocation triumph, the sixty-seven year old would go ahead to make a progression of exceptionally unique plans that would approve his case as "The world's most noteworthy architect." (khan-academy). There are differing accounts in regards to the circumstances that conveyed Kaufmann to offer Wright an opportunity to plan a "weekend house" in the nation; however, we realize that Wright made his first outing to the site on Bear Run, Pennsylvania in December, 1934. Wright's disciple Donald Hoppen has discussed Wright's "uncanny sense of...genius loci" (Latin for "soul of the spot") (khan-academy). and from the earliest starting point, the designer dismisses a site that introduced an ordinary perspective of the waterfall; rather, he daringly offered to make the house some portion of it, expressing that the "visit to the waterfall in the forested areas stays with me and a habitation comes to fruition in my brain to the music of the stream." (khan-academy). The South-southeast orientation gives the deception that the stream flows, not close by the house, but rather through

Mies developed this glass box living arrangement of "almost nothing" for Dr. Edith Farnsworth as a nation retreat along the Fox River in Plano, IL. It kept on being a private residence for more than 50 years until Landmarks Illinois and the National Trust for Historic Preservation acquired it in 2003. Today it is claimed and oversaw by the Trust and the site is open as an open exhibition museum