Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright was one of the visionary architects of this century, and he developed a number of homes with an organic relationship to the site where they were to be built. Wright had an organic vision of architecture and of its relation to the time in which it was practiced as well, as can be seen from a statement he made in 1940:

Architecture is beginning, always beginning. It was not made by the Greeks nor by the Romans. It wasn't even made in the Georgian Period. It is something that has to be made afresh all the time, as life, as growth changes.

One of the works that secured considerable attention was known as "Fallingwater."

Wright experienced many ups and does in his career. After one financial collapse which also eliminated the clients he had started to attract, Wright set about creating an ideal culture and its architectural setting. He exhibited his Broadacre City in 1935, and in this design Wright spread the suburb out across the countryside. Large houses would sit upon the highest ground. In the 1930s, Wright would have one of his most productive periods in the thirties, and he was able in this period to amalgamate the influences he had received with his own sensibilities to produce fresh masterpieces of his own. "Fallingwater" was one of these creations.

The structure known as "Fallingwater" is actually the Kaufmann House. The home was built across a stream called Bear Run in Connellsville, Pennsylvania. "Fallingwater" should be compared to

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