Frank Lloyd Wright (1876-1959) was one of the best American Architects. Fallingwater is his masterpiece, "the most famous residence ever build" ; tne AIA (American Institute of Arhitects) refers to Fallingwater as "the best all-time work of American architecture".
Designed and buil during 1934-1937 in Pennsylvania, Fallingwater was a vacation house for the Kaufmann family: Edgar, Liliane and son Edgar Jr., owners of a department store in Pittsburgh.
Fallingwater house and contents were entrusted to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy in 1963 and is, today, a house - museum and U.S. monument.
Fallingwater is a synthesis of "organic architecture"; it integrates man with nature, as Wright taught to his students at his Taliesen Studio. Fallingwater was constructed of sandstone quarried on the property and was built by local craftsmen. It follows the concept of integrating environmental factors, function, native materials, construction process and humans (the client).
Designed and buil during 1934-1937 in Pennsylvania, Fallingwater was a vacation house for the Kaufmann family: Edgar, Liliane and son Edgar Jr., owners of a department store in Pittsburgh.
Fallingwater house and contents were entrusted to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy in 1963 and is, today, a house - museum and U.S. monument.
Fallingwater is a synthesis of "organic architecture"; it integrates man with nature, as Wright taught to his students at his Taliesen Studio. Fallingwater was constructed of sandstone quarried on the property and was built by local craftsmen. It follows the concept of integrating environmental factors, function, native materials, construction process and humans (the client).
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