Frank Lloyd Wright is the most original and innovative, but he never attended an architecture school. As a child, he worked on his uncle's farm in Wisconsin and described himself as an American primitive, an innocent but clever country boy whose education on the farm made him more perceptive and more down-to-earth. "Early in life, I had to choose between honest and hypocritical humility. I choose the farmer and have seen no occasion to change."(Frank Lloyd Wright. Delmars.com).

When Wright was fifteen years old, he entered the University of Wisconsin as a special student. He studied engineering because the school had no course in architecture. He left school after a few semesters and apprenticed with J.L. Silsbee and Louis Sullivan. After working with Sullivan for six years, Wright opened his own practice.

Wright's drawings, which are in ink and crayon on huge sheets of rice paper, are magical and lyrical. No one might ever build accordingly, but Wright was never content with the commonplace or servile to the conventional or the practical. Wright died at on April 9, 1959 leaving nothing but his works, his plans and his inspiration to the world behind.

Wright created the philosophy of "organic architecture", the central principal of which maintains that the building should develop out of its natural surroundings. "No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together, each the happier for the other."(Frank Lloyd Wright Quotations). Organic architecture involves a respect for the properties of the material-you don't twist steel into a flower.(PBS.org). It is also an attempt to integrate the spaces into a whole: a marriage between the site and the structure and a union between the context and the structure. Wright was opposed to the mechanical impositions of preconceived styles. He believed that the architectural for must ultimately be determined in each case by the particular function of the building, its environment, and the type of materials used in the structure. He used various materials for their natural colors and textures, as well as for their structural characteristics. His interiors emphasize the sense of spaciousness from open planning with one room flowing into the other.

This house was severely damaged by fire while being restored in 1976. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas DeCaro undersaw its extensive reconstruction in 1977, including the restoration of features lost over the years through remodeling. For this reason, this is often called the "Hills/DeCaro House".

The key to the setting of the house is the waterfall over which it is built. The falls had been a focal point of the Kaufmann's activities, and the family had indicated the area around the falls as the location for a home. They were unprepared for Wright's suggestion that the house rise over the waterfall, rather than face it. But the architect's original scheme was adopted almost without change. Completed with a guest and service wing in 1939, Fallingwater was constructed of san

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