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ID: 700089822
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700089822
Record Type: Built Work
Fallingwater (complex (buildings and sites); Wright, Lloyd (American architect, 1890-1978) ; house: 1936-1939; later additi...)
Note: Residential complex located between the villages of Mill Run and Ohiopyle, Pennsylvannia, comprising "Fallingwater," the vacation home for Philadelphia retailer Edgar J. Kaufman, a barn, guesthouse, and a visitor's center.
Titles:
Fallingwater (preferred,C,U,CO,undetermined,U,U)
Catalog Level: item
Work Types:
complex (buildings and sites) [300000202] (preferred)
..... (Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Built Complexes and Districts (hierarchy name))

Classifications:
not applicable (preferred)

Creation Date: house: 1936-1939; later additions: contemporary

Creator Display:
Wright, Lloyd (American architect, 1890-1978) [preferred]
Wright, Lloyd (American architect, 1890-1978) [500009812]
Locations:
Pennsylvania [7007710] United States (nation), North and Central America (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)
Display Materials: reinforced concrete, Pyrex, and steel
reinforced concrete [300010775]
.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, concrete, <concrete by technique>)
Pyrex (TM) [300010801]
.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, glass (material), <glass by composition or origin>, borosilicate glass)
steel (alloy) [300133751]
.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, metal, <metal by composition or origin>, <iron and iron alloy>, iron alloy)

Dimensions: 1,700 acres
Cultures:
American (preferred)

General Subject:
architecture (preferred)

List/Hierarchical Position:
..... Built Works
.......... Built Works by class: residential structures
Sources and Contributors:
Fallingwater........ [VP]
........ Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Subject: ....... [VP]
....................... Getty Vocabulary Program, Legacy AAT data (1983-1995)
Note:
English ..... [VP]
..... Getty Vocabulary Program rules
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