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One of the world’s most famous houses is the weekend retreat called Fallingwater. The Design was made by the well known Frank Lloyd Wright. The building of the house begun in 1936 and was completed in the following year, Wright designed the house for Pittsburgh department store owner Edgar J. Kaufmann, whose son, Edgar Jr., was a Taliesin fellow. Wright never liked to draw until he knew what he was going to draw. This is the way it came out of his head. And this is the way he planned. Wright named his building Fallingwater as it sounded good. It would eventually become the most famous modern house in the world. And he had drawn it all in less than three hours. Wright wanted to associate the stream with the house so therefore he planed for that association. Hence the steps from living room to stream, Wright intended to deepen the stream for a swimming pool under the house