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Frank Lloyd Wright, 1867-1959, American architect, considered one of the greatest figures of 20th-century architecture. However, both the man and his work were controversial during his lifetime. Wright avoided anything that might be called a personal style. Through all his designs, he was guided by principles that he termed organic architecture. By this he meant that every building should relate harmoniously to its natural surroundings and that a building should not be a static, boxlike enclosure with openings cut into them.

Ironically, the work for which Wright is best known is one of his largest and least democratic works: Fallingwater, built in 1936 for Pittsburgh department store magnate Edgar Kaufmann. Cantilevered dramatically over a waterfall in Bear Run, near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Fallingwater is notable for its relationship with the environment—it appears to emerge from the rocks above the waterfall—and for bringing the outdoors inside.

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