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"What are these grounds and this house? Acres of rock and acid earth, second-growth trees and icy streams, roughly cast in the Appalachian mold- and something more: a place of vigorous beauty, of self-renewing enchantment, of adventuresome picturesqueness that answers perfectly a romantic need in modern hearts, the need to be natural, to experience nature not as grist for our mills but as the habitat that has formed us…. Without drawing on tradition, without relying on precedent, Fallingwater was created by Frank Lloyd Wright as a declaration that in nature man finds his spiritual as well as his physical energies, that a harmonious response to nature yields the poetry and joy that nourish human living." - Edgar Kaufmann, jr, at the dedication of the property to Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, 1963. Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture at Fallingwater reflects, enhances, and draws inspiration from the surrounding rocks, trees, stream, and waterfall. It is a major artistic, philosophic and social statement by one of the most important design figures of the twentieth century. The genius of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater is its ability to physically and spiritually embrace the natural world, capturing in architecture a vision of man as part of the organic life of the landscape. |
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