Bear Run

Pennsylvania, United States

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Bear Run is a community in southwestern Pennsylvania, United States, notable as the location of Fallingwater. This iconic weekend residence was designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright for the Kaufmann family in 1935. Wright's daring design integrated the house directly over a waterfall, aiming to bring the natural element into the daily lives of the residents. Completed in 1937, Fallingwater became a celebrated example of Wright's organic architecture and is now a museum. The surrounding region of Pennsylvania features diverse landforms, including the Appalachian Plateau, shaped by millions of years of geological processes.1

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produced four masterpieces: Fallingwater, Bear Run, Pennsylvania (1936), the daringly cantilevered weekend house of Edgar Kaufmann; the administration building of S.C. Johnson & Son in Racine, Wisconsin, in which brick cylinders and planes develop a series of echoing spaces, culminating in the forest of graceful “mushroom” columns in the…
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produced four masterpieces: Fallingwater, Bear Run, Pennsylvania (1936), the daringly cantilevered weekend house of Edgar Kaufmann; the administration building of S.C. Johnson & Son in Racine, Wisconsin, in which brick cylinders and planes develop a series of echoing spaces, culminating in the forest of graceful “mushroom” columns in the…
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