Falling Water

About

Between 1936 and 1939, Frank Lloyd Wright builds a house for the Kaufmann family over the waterfall of Bear Run, near Mill Run in Stewart Township, in Pennsylvania's Laurel Highlands. Concrete terraces cantilever out over the falling water, so that building and landscape read as a single continuous form. In 1963, Edgar Kaufmann Jr. entrusts the house and the surrounding land to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy. The following year, in 1964, Fallingwater opens to the public as a museum. In 2019, UNESCO inscribes Fallingwater, together with seven other Frank Lloyd Wright buildings, on the World Heritage List under the title "The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright" — the first modern architecture in the United States to receive the designation.