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Ever since I came upon a photo of Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater house, I have been mesmerized. The overall design of the house is done in such a way as to make it feel like the house is part of the setting, meant to be there. Built in 1935, Fallingwater is located at Bear Run in the Laurel Highlands in the Allegheny Mountains of rural Pennsylvania. Having vacationed there for years, Pittsburgh retail mogul Edgar J. Kaufmann and his wife wanted a house where they could look upon the falls. They commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to design it. Wright went one better, having it constructed so part of the structure is over the waterfall. It was designated a National Historical Landmark in 1966 and is open to the public for viewing during a portion of the year.
Fallingwater has been called "the best all-time work of American architecture" by the American Institute of Architects. (1991)
"You've never seen a building that fits with nature so tightly," Franklin Toker, author of Fallingwater Rising: Frank Lloyd Wright, E.J. Kaufmann , and America's Most Extraordinary House says. "It's not merely nature, it's animated. You've seen Vegas and Times Square, but you've never seen a building that's in constant motion."
To see some of the hidden secrets of Fallingwater, click here: http://www.today.com/video/see-hidden-secrets-of-frank-lloyd-wrights-famed-fallingwater-house-606673987816
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