Executive summary by darmansjah
Fallingwater or Kaufmann Residence is a
house designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935 in rural southwestern
Pennsylvania, 43 miles (69 km) southeast of Pittsburgh.The home was built
partly over a waterfall on Bear Run in the Mill Run section of Stewart
Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in the Laurel Highlands of the
Allegheny Mountains.
Hailed by Time shortly after its completion as Wright's
"most beautiful job",it is listed among Smithsonian's Life List of 28
places "to visit before you die." It was designated a National
Historic Landmark in 1966.In 1991, members of the American Institute of
Architects named the house the "best all-time work of American
architecture" and in 2007, it was ranked twenty-ninth on the list of
America's Favorite Architecture according to the AIA.
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