Recently, I found myself thinking again about Fallingwater in Pennsylvania. Frank Lloyd Wright’s house is familiar to almost every architect, yet familiarity can hide the questions that make it extraordinary. Why place a house directly over moving water? Why accept the hardest part of the site instead of selecting an easier, flatter place? And when a great designer begins, does the idea come from sketching—or does the drawing arrive only after the design has already taken shape in the mind?
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