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Fallingwater

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Fallingwater, Bear Run, Pa., house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867–1959, American architect, b. Richland Center, Wis. Wright is widely considered the greatest American architect. After studying civil engineering at the Univ.
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. Fallingwater (1936–39) is an architectural tour de force of Wright's organic philosophy, whereby a building should be completely integrated with its environment. Seen from below, the house is boldly cantilevered over a waterfall, with its powerful balconies and terraces seemingly suspended in midair.


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It is well known, for example, that Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater has been the subject of multi-million dollar strengthening works to halt the sagging of the cantilevered structure.
Now, senior curator Deborah Rothschild gathers over fifty black-and-white prints, spanning 1958 to 1977, of the photographer's famous American architectural subjects--from Wright's Fallingwater to Eero Saarinen's TWA Terminal.
Fallingwater was designed by one of America's foremost architects, Frank Lloyd Wright.
 
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