The Troubled Truth Behind America's Greatest House Ever Built | Documentary

The Troubled Truth Behind America's Greatest House Ever Built | Documentary

In nineteen thirty-four, Frank Lloyd Wright was sixty-seven years old and nearly forgotten. Critics called him a has-been. A nineteenth-century relic. His last major commission had come over a decade earlier, and the Great Depression had starved what remained of his practice. The Museum of Modern Art had recently dismissed him as only "half-modern." Most architects his age would have accepted defeat.
Then a phone call changed everything.
A wealthy Pittsburgh merchant wanted a weekend house in the Pennsylvania mountains. Nothing unusual. Except Wright had procrastinated for nine months without producing a single drawing. When the client announced he was driving over to see the plans, Wright sat down at his drafting table and reportedly sketched the entire design in roughly three hours. What emerged would become the most celebrated private residence in American history.


Copyright Disclaimers
• We use images and content in accordance with the YouTube Fair Use copyright guidelines
• Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Act states: “Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright.”

#fallingwater