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Fallingwater/Kaufmann Residence, Frank Lloyd Wright, 1935.

THE HOUSE ON THE WATERFALL (1989)

I went to a screening of Ken Burns’ documentary FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT (1998) as a kid, and still remember the moment the camera panned around to reveal Falling Water. It was the first time a piece of architecture had actually made me a bit teary. That film is still worth a watch for a comprehensive study of Wright’s life and work, but this shorter video offers a fascinating, and more detailed, look at the house. As well as exploring its design evolution and construction, it features the client’s son, by then an architecture professor himself, who donated the building to the public and oversaw its maintenance. He offers many anecdotes about the building process, including the fact that numerous engineers claimed the structure would collapse. When the client relayed their findings, Wright responded that ‘anyone who’d believe that is unworthy of a building of mine’, and when Kauffman agreed, the offending engineering reports were buried in the foundations. Render by Alex Nerovnya