Fallingwater, or the Kaufmann Residence, is a house designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935 in rural southwestern Pennsylvania, 50 miles 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 Magazine shortly after its completion as Wright's "most beautiful job", it is also listed among Smithsonian's Life List of 28 places "to visit before you die." It was designated a National Historic Landmark and in 1991, members of the American Institute of Architects named the house the "best all-time work of American architecture".
With it's horizontal planes, classic proportions and integration into it's site, Fallingwater is the epitome of a building that is part of the landscape. It compliments the landscape and allows the occupants to feel part of their surroundings.
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