campuses, Taliesin and Taliesin West in Arizona.) He introduced the architect to his parents,
and he was often the intermediary between Wright and his parents during the building’s design
and construction.
FIGURE 14-3. Fallingwater
Another architectural wonder, perhaps the most influential house of the 20th century
(influential in the sense that its style defined the morphology of modern cities the world over),
is the Villa Savoye, at Poissy, outside Paris, designed by the Swiss architect Charles-Édouard
Jeanneret-Gris, a.k.a. Le Corbusier (see Figure 14-4). Villa Savoye, like Fallingwater, was
designed as a weekend house. It was constructed between 1928 and 1931.
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