Which architect designed the Fallingwater house?

Frank Lloyd Wright designed Fallingwater, the celebrated modern house built partly over a waterfall in Pennsylvania.

Wright created the retreat for Edgar J. Kaufmann Sr., owner of Pittsburgh’s Kaufmann’s department store, and his wife Liliane. The family acquired the Bear Run site in 1933 and hired Wright to design the house in 1934. Construction began in 1936, and the main house was completed in 1937.

Rather than orienting the building toward a view of the waterfall, Wright placed the residence over it, making rushing water part of the experience of the home. Broad cantilevered terraces project from the central stone chimney, combining locally quarried stone with reinforced concrete, steel, and glass.

The guest house followed in 1939. Fallingwater became a house museum operated by the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy and was designated part of the UNESCO World Heritage listing The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright in 2019. Its organic design is often confused with International Style architecture, but Wright developed a distinct relationship between structure and landscape.