"Exact­ly when he gained that sta­tus isn't easy to pin down. Like all archi­tects, he began his career unknown; only lat­er did even his ear­ly solo works from around the turn of the twen­ti­eth cen­tu­ry, like his pri­vate home and stu­dio and the Uni­ty Tem­ple, both in Oak Park, Illi­nois, become sites of pil­grim­age. By 1935, how­ev­er, Wright's name had long since been inter­na­tion­al­ly made - and unmade."
"For­tu­nate­ly for him, that was the year he designed the Edgar J. Kauf­mann Sr. House, bet­ter known as Falling­wa­ter, which is now wide­ly con­sid­ered his mas­ter­piece. Nat­u­ral­ly, Falling­wa­ter appears in one of the videos includ­ed in the playlist of short doc­u­men­taries on Wright's hous­es from Archi­tec­tur­al Digest at the top of the post. It could hard­ly have been oth­er­wise; near­ly as unig­nor­able are his Ari­zona home and stu­dio and his much-filmed Maya revival Ennis House in Los Ange­les."
Frank Lloyd Wright became the dominant figure associated with American architecture, achieving widespread recognition by the mid-1930s. His early solo works from around the turn of the twentieth century, including his private home and studio and the Unity Temple in Oak Park, Illinois, later attracted dedicated visitors. In 1935 Wright designed the Edgar J. Kaufmann Sr. House, Fallingwater, which is widely regarded as his masterpiece. Other notable projects include his Arizona home and studio, the Maya revival Ennis House in Los Angeles, Toy Hill House in Pleasantville, Tirranna in New Canaan, and the Circular Sun House in Phoenix. Short documentary videos provide tours of many of these houses.
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