Operating Principles

Vision

 

 

 

When the Kaufmann family of Pittsburgh hired Frank Lloyd Wright to build them a country house, they specified that the design must take advantage of their favorite setting by a woodland waterfall in Bear Run, Pennsylvania.

Any other architect would have built near the waterfall—but Wright conceived a characteristically bold design that called for building over the falls. The family was skeptical, and the engineers even more so, but Wright persisted. Today Fallingwater, with its magical sensation of floating, is one of the most beloved monuments of American architecture.

While we stop short of claiming for ourselves the genius of a Frank Lloyd Wright, we do share his philosophy that a unique and strongly held vision can turn the impossible into the inevitable.