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This summer, the Guggenheim Museum in New York is presenting a retrospective of Frank Lloyd Wright’s work. As part of our American Icons series, Studio 360’s Peter Crimmins finds out why Fallingwater was named the best building of the 20th century.
In the late 1930s, Edgar Kaufman asked starchitect Frank Lloyd Wright to design a home near a waterfall in Pennsylvania — and an architectural icon was born. This summer, the Guggenheim Museum in New York (Wright’s last masterpiece) is presenting a retrospective of Wright’s work. As part of our American Icons series, Studio 360’s Peter Crimmins finds out why Fallingwater was named the best building of the 20th century.