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Architecture · 50+2 series · Modernism & the New Building

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1935–1939

When a House Became Part of Nature

Fallingwater

Fallingwater's cantilevered terraces extending over Bear Run.
Fallingwater, documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey.Historic American Buildings Survey, Library of Congress · Public domain, U.S. federal government work · Library of Congress · Source record

The Moment

Frank Lloyd Wright placed the house directly into its natural setting above a waterfall.

The Rethink

Architecture and landscape did not have to be opposites.