Featuring extensive use of cantilevered floors and reinforced concrete as supports, it was constructed for Pittsburgh retail magnate Edgar Kaufmann.
Franklin Toker has written a book that interviewed John Howe and Robert Mosher on its construction, and Edgar Tafel was apprenticed to its principal architect. Its architect once recommended covering its concrete surfaces with gold leaf, and it was the basis of much of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead. The original plan for it involved a more conventional placement near the foot of a cliff; however, the architect decided instead to make the building conform to the cliff itself. Featuring extensive use of cantilevered floors and reinforced concrete as supports, it was constructed for Pittsburgh retail magnate Edgar Kaufmann. FTP, name this most famous Frank Lloyd Wright residence, named for a certain mobile geographical feature.
Franklin Toker has written a book that interviewed John Howe and Robert Mosher on its construction, and Edgar Tafel was apprenticed to its principal architect.
{Fallingwater} (accept {Kauffman House} before the mention of Kaufmann')