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Fallingwater

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Architecture and Design Atlas. "Fallingwater." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://architecture.interactiveatlas.org/buildings/fallingwater.

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Architecture and Design Atlas. (n.d.). Fallingwater. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://architecture.interactiveatlas.org/buildings/fallingwater

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@misc{architectureanddesignatlas-fallingwater,
  author = {Architecture and Design Atlas},
  title = {Fallingwater},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://architecture.interactiveatlas.org/buildings/fallingwater},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

The weekend house Frank Lloyd Wright designed for the Kaufmann family at Mill Run, Pennsylvania, completed in 1937, its reinforced concrete trays cantilevered directly over the waterfall of Bear Run. The most famous private house of the twentieth century, it fused building and landscape as no work before it had, and it is now a museum and World Heritage listed.

Facts

Building Type

House 1

Location

Mill Run, Pennsylvania, United States 1

Completed Year

1937 1

The main house; the guest house followed in 1939.

Cross-Tradition Connections

Designed By

Frank Lloyd Wright

Source Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Official Site

In Style

Modernist Architecture

Wright's organic strain of modernism, not the International Style he disdained.

Source Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Official Site

Uses Element

Source Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Official Site

Reinforced Concrete

Source Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Official Site

Sources

1. Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Official Site

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