Frank Lloyd Wright Dies: Organic Architecture Loses Its Visionary
Frank Lloyd Wright designed Fallingwater in 1935 while the client, Edgar Kaufmann Sr., was standing at a drafting table watching. Wright had been procrastinating for months. He produced the sketches in two hours, explaining the design out loud as he drew. The house cantilevers over a waterfall in the Pennsylvania woods and has been leaking ever since. Structural engineers spent years trying to prevent it from collapsing. Wright died in April 1959 at 91, still working, with 532 completed buildings to his name.
April 9, 1959
67 years ago
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