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  2. Fallingwater - Wikipedia

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    Olgivanna Wright regarded Fallingwater as "the most dramatic home my husband designed", [414] saying that the house was the only Wright–designed building that many people could name. [415] Nearly two decades after the house's completion, The Baltimore Sun described Fallingwater as "a handsome and daring house" in its own way but a "monumental ...

  3. Organic architecture - Wikipedia

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    Wright created the ultimate masterpiece of organic architecture, Fallingwater, which best demonstrates his organic architecture philosophy: the harmonious union of art and nature. Fallingwater [1] is the residence Wright designed for the Kaufmann family in rural Pennsylvania. Wright had many choices to locate a home on this large site but chose ...

  4. File:FallingwaterWright.jpg - Wikipedia

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    Fallingwater in Pennsylvania {{GFDL-self}} Category:Frank Lloyd Wright File usage The following pages on the English Wikipedia use this file (pages on other projects are not listed):

  5. Bear Run - Wikipedia

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    The Fallingwater house, designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright, is located on this stream at the locality known as Mill Run. [7] Bear Run is inside the Bear Run Nature Reserve, protected by the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy. [8] Bear Run is a designated Pennsylvania Scenic River. [9]

  6. Site-specific architecture - Wikipedia

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    Fallingwater is described as a place that “effectively unites architecture and nature as one” (Laseau and Tice, 1992, 94). [25] The concrete and limestone exterior seamlessly blends into the environment surrounding, this naturalistic aesthetic extends inside through house using stone floors.

  7. Gregor S. and Elizabeth B. Affleck House - Wikipedia

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    Gregor's wife Elizabeth was particularly fond of Wright's Fallingwater, so when the couple wanted to build their own house in 1940, they commissioned Wright to design this house. The site was a unique lot, densely wooded, with no level ground, which allowed Wright to explore and refine his design for a home on sloping ground.

  8. Frank Lloyd Wright - Wikipedia

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    Eight of Wright's buildings – Fallingwater, the Guggenheim Museum, the Hollyhock House, the Jacobs House, the Robie House, Taliesin, Taliesin West, and the Unity Temple – were inscribed on the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites under the title The 20th-century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright in July 2019. UNESCO stated that these ...

  9. Modern architecture - Wikipedia

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    Between 1928 and 1935, he built only two buildings: a hotel near Chandler, Arizona, and the most famous of all his residences, Fallingwater (1934–37), a vacation house in Pennsylvania for Edgar J. Kaufman. Fallingwater is a remarkable structure of concrete slabs suspended over a waterfall, perfectly uniting architecture and nature. [43]