Fallingwater is a house designed by the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright for the Kaufmann family of Pittsburgh, built over a waterfall at Bear Run in southwestern Pennsylvania. Edgar Kaufmann, a department store owner, commissioned it as a weekend retreat, and construction took place in the late 1930s. Wright built it with cantilevered concrete terraces which extend over the stream, using local stone to link the house to its natural setting. This blend of architecture and landscape is a principle of what he called organic architecture. The Kaufmann family later gave the house to a conservancy, and in 2019 it was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List among Wright's major works.
Before and after
- 15 November 1935Birth of Mahmoud Abbas
- 30 November 1935Birth of Woody Allen
- 31 December 1935Birth of Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
- 1936Great Purge
- 1936Construction of Fallingwater
- 1936Origins of American Hockey League
- 1936Establishment of Jim Corbett National Park
- 1936Inge Lehmann discovers the Earth's inner core
- 1936Alan Turing defines the universal machine
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