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Frank Lloyd Wright is considered the most influential American architect of the 20th century. Fallingwater, one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s most widely acclaimed works, was designed in 1936 for the family of Pittsburgh department store owner Edgar J. Kaufmann. Built over a waterfall, it displayed Wright’s fascination with European modernism, nature and daring structures. The house is located halfway between the villages of Mill Run and Ohiopyle on Pennsylvania Route 381, USA. Driving time from Pittsburgh is about two hours. Over 2.7 million people have visited Fallingwater since it opened to the public in 1964.

Fallingwater opened a new chapter in American architecture, and is perhaps rightly considered Wright’s greatest work, for he was first and foremost an architect of houses.
The Frank Lloyd Wright’s legacy is an architectural style that departed from European influences to create a purely American form, one that included the idea that buildings can be in harmony with the natural environment.

In 1986, New York Times architecture critic Paul Goldberger wrote: “This is a house that summed up the 20th century and then thrust it forward still further. Within this remarkable building Frank Lloyd Wright recapitulated themes that had preoccupied him since his career began a half century earlier, but he did not reproduce them literally. Instead, he cast his net wider, integrating European modernism and his own love of nature and of structural daring, and pulled it all together into a brilliantly resolved totality. Fallingwater is Wright’s greatest essay in horizontal space; it is his most powerful piece of structural drama; it is his most sublime integration of man and nature.”