Observations from the road: The vacation reading edition
Summer reading on lying, grace, baseball, and architecture.
Summer reading on lying, grace, baseball, and architecture.
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater is one of the architectural wonders of the world. In the midst of the depression, when the Kaufmann family of Pittsburgh commissioned Wright to design their vacation home along Bear Run in the mountains of southwestern Pennsylvania, they envisioned a location that would give them a view of the beautiful 30′ waterfall that ran through their property. However, as the world soon discovered, Wright – who was then in a period of critical decline among architectural critics and the public – saw things differently. The results immediately captivated the country when the home was featured on the cover of Time magazine in 1938, and it hasn’t stopped attracting visitors and attention since. Our family is no different. After a business trip to the National Historic Landmark in early May 1998, I immediately booked a return trip a week later with Candice and our twins – Andrew and Claire – who were five years old at the time. Both children were eager to see this place that mom and dad described with …