Kaufmann Residence
Frank Lloyd Wright's 1935 masterpiece in rural Pennsylvania integrates architecture with nature in a way never before achieved. Cantilevered concrete terraces hover over a waterfall, blurring the boundary between interior and exterior, built and natural. The house embodies Wright's principle of 'organic architecture.'
Established the modern ideal that architecture should emerge from its landscape rather than dominate it. This principle of contextual design influences sustainable architecture and biophilic design today.
Bishop Maurice de Sully (commission) · 1163
Louis Le Vau, Jules Hardouin-Mansart, André Le Nôtre · 1661
Walter Gropius · 1919
Stanley Kubrick · 1968
Max Miedinger & Eduard Hoffmann · 1957
Ictinus & Callicrates · 447 BC