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Southwestern Pennsylvania’s famous Frank Lloyd Wright home Fallingwater will be featured in a new PBS program called 10 Homes That Changed America. The crew out of Chicago started production there last week.
“Part of our goal here is to start a conversation about architecture. We’re not trying to be the final word,” said Dan Protess, the PBS program’s producer.
Protess put together a panel of advisors from academia to help decide which homes would be featured on the show. Fallingwater was a natural choice since Frank Lloyd Wright is one of America’s most famous architects.
The show’s host, Geoffrey Baer, said when Wright built this house in 1937, he blew up certain ideas about Modern Architecture: “One of the tenants of Modernism was that you could take a glass box and put it anywhere—it was ‘universal’ architecture. And Frank Lloyd Wright utterly rejected this idea. This house could not be anywhere but here.”
Baer said it’ll be a challenge to compress the story of the house into a 5-minute segment for their program. 10 Homes That Changed America is slated to be broadcast in 2016.
Final cost: $155,000 (Included $8,000 architect’s fees, and $4,500 for installed walnut furnishings) equivalent to about $2,656,744.60 today.
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