Fallingwater house by Frank Lloyd Wright

FORWARD: Mr. Wright has homes he’s designed all over. Ironically while riding bikes with my roommate, he showed me one of Frank’s homes that were within walking distance from our house. The Millard house. It’s in Pasadena, and it’s just as cool as all of his other works of art. Today, we’re learning about the Fallingwater House. It’s basically a house built on top of a waterfall. Tap in. You start dying when you stop dreaming.

Remembering American architect, designer, writer, and educator FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT  (Jun 8, 1867 – Apr 9, 1959) who designed more than 1,000 structures over a creative period of 70 years.

Fallingwater is a house designed by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1939 in the Laurel Highlands of southwest Pennsylvania, about 70 miles (110 km) southeast of Pittsburgh. The house was built partly over a waterfall on Bear Run in the Mill Run section of Stewart Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, located in the Laurel Highlands of the Allegheny Mountains. The house was designed as a weekend home for Liliane and Edgar J. Kaufmann, the owner of Pittsburgh’s Kaufmann’s Department Store.

After its completion, Time called Fallingwater Wright’s “most beautiful job” and it is listed among the Smithsonian‘s “Life List of 28 Places to See Before You Die”. The house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1966. In 1991, members of the American Institute of Architectsnamed Fallingwater the “best all-time work of American architecture” and in 2007, it was ranked 29th on the list of America’s Favorite Architecture according to the AIA.

The house and seven other Wright constructions were inscribed as a World Heritage Site under the title “The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright” in July 2019.