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The Work of Frank Lloyd Wright: Fallingwater One of the world's most famous private homes, architecturally and naturally, is Fallingwater in southwestern Pennsylvania, just about seventy-two miles from Pittsburgh. Fallingwater is one of Frank Lloyd Wright's most widely acclaimed works, designed for the family of Pittsburgh department store owner Edgar J. Kaufmann. The key to the setting of the house is the waterfall over which it is built, causing many scholars to consider Fallingwater as Wright's "finest work and epitome of organic architecture" (Herbert 54). However, even though Wright was the great architect that he was, he did receive criticism for not being too keen-sighted with all his structural details. Over the years, Fallingwater suffered major structural damage and the name Fallingwater seemed that it "was not just evocative, but, structurally speaking, prophetic" (Silman 88). Yet, in this case, it may not have been Wright's fault that the renowned Fallingwater suffered...

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