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“I want you to live with the waterfall, not just to look at it, but for it to become an integral part of your lives.” So wrote architect Frank Lloyd Wright to the Kaufmann family in 1935, just before construction would start on Fallingwater. Wright’s ingenious fusion of nature and architecture, completed in 1937 and honored as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2019, owes its existence to the power and presence of water. He even utilized river pebbles in some of the building’s concrete mix. That same element has, over the decades of the home’s storied existence, conspired to degrade it, seeping into walls and even on occasion flooding the living space. Maintenance and restoration projects have tried to strengthen Fallingwater’s defense, attempting the tricky balance of defending it from environmental challenges while adhering to increasingly stringent preservation edicts. One of the most exhaustive, a $7.5 million, three-year effort that put scaffolding around the entire home for the first time in 20 years, is now at the finish line. The lead restoration architect shares the challenges of restoring what might be the most famous home in existence: https://www.dwell.com/article/frank-lloyd-wright-fallingwater-preservation-plan-pamela-jerome-84b76806