Fallingwater
Fallingwater is located in this U.S. state.
What is Pennsylvania?
Prairie-style homes emphasize this over height.
What is horizontal space?
Wright pioneered this type of heating, now common in modern homes.
What is radiant floor heating?
Wright believed buildings should blend with this.
What is nature?
This house, built over a waterfall, is one of Wright’s most famous designs.
What is Fallingwater?
Fallingwater is built over this specific creek in Pennsylvania.
What is Bear Run?
Wright used this type of roof to give homes a low, natural look.
What is a flat or low-pitched roof?
Wright designed this unique furniture that was built into the home itself.
What is built-in furniture?
He called his philosophy of organic architecture by this name.
What is Organic Architecture?
Wright’s home and studio in Spring Green, Wisconsin.
What is Taliesin?
Fallingwater was designed for this wealthy Pittsburgh family.
Who are the Kaufmanns?
This element of nature greatly influenced Wright’s designs.
What is the landscape?
This system allowed large windows to bring the outside in.
What are cantilevered windows?
Wright was a student of this famous architect before developing his own style.
Who is Louis Sullivan?
This New York museum features a spiral ramp instead of traditional floors.
What is the Guggenheim Museum?
This structural technique allowed parts of the house to extend over the water without support below.
What is cantilevering?
Open floor plans replaced this traditional room layout.
What are separate or closed-off rooms?
This innovation helped his concrete textile block houses stay earthquake-resistant.
What are interlocking blocks with reinforced steel?
He created this school to train young architects in his philosophy.
What is the Taliesin Fellowship?
This Tokyo hotel, designed by Wright, was built to withstand earthquakes.
What is the Imperial Hotel?
In 1991, the American Institute of Architects named Fallingwater this.
What is the "best all-time work of American architecture"?
This city was home to many of Wright’s early Prairie-style homes.
What is Oak Park, Illinois?
Wright experimented with this type of modular home-building technique.
What is prefabrication?
Wright often used this geometric shape in his later designs, like the Guggenheim.
What is the circle (or spiral)?
Wright designed this sprawling community in Arizona, which became his winter home and studio.
What is Taliesin West?