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The Guggenheim Museum in New York is home of one of the world's greatest collections of modern art. And fittingly, the building itself is a work of modern art. Instead of the traditional rectangular building with various flat floors, architect Frank Lloyd Wright ....

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.... of simplicity. These architects believed that the form of a building should harmonize with its function. Much of Wright's early work is in what is called "Prairie Style." Buildings designed in this fashion reflect the flatness of the prairie in their low, horizontal appearance. Many of these structures were built in the Chicago area. Though he designed several commercial buildings, such as the Johnson Wax building in Racine, Wisconsin, one of his most famous works is the "Fallingwater" house on Bear Creek near Uniontown, Pennsylvania. Fallingwater is a low, horizontal house that incorporates a waterfall into the design. ....