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.
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Building Type LocationMill Run, Pennsylvania, United States 1 Completed Year Completed YearThe main house; the guest house followed in 1939. Heritage Designation Heritage DesignationUS National Register of Historic Places 3 Classification
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Source Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Official Site
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Wright's organic strain of modernism, not the International Style he disdained.
Source Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Official Site
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Source Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Official Site
Source Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Official Site
The walls and terraces use locally quarried Pottsville sandstone, chosen so the house would read as an outgrowth of its own ledge.
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1. Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Official Site
Frank Lloyd Wright Foundationfranklloydwright.org/site/fallingwater/
Fallingwater is Wright's crowning achievement in organic architecture and the American Institute of Architects' "best all-time work of American architecture." Its owners, Edgar and Liliane Kaufmann, were a prominent Pittsburgh couple, reputed for their distinctive sense of style and taste.
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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.
- In Style: Modernist Architecture
- Designed By: Frank Lloyd Wright
- Uses Element: Cantilever
- Uses Element: Reinforced Concrete
- Associated With: Genius Loci
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Fallingwater is designated as a National Historic Landmark, and it is one of eight buildings in "The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright", a World Heritage Site.
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