SSAE students (shown above) enjoyed the fall foliage during a field trip on Saturday, October 14th to tour Falling Water, the architectural masterpiece of renowned architect, Frank Lloyd Wright located in Mill Run, Pennsylvania. 

Falling Water, one of Wright's most widely acclaimed works, was designed in 1937 as a weekend home for the family of Pittsburgh department store owner Edgar J. Kaufmann.  The focal point of the house is the waterfall over which the house is built. 

In 1963, the house, its contents, and grounds were presented to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy by Edgar Kaufmann, Jr., and over 2 million people have visited the site since it opened to the public in 1964.  Falling Water is the only remaining Wright house with its setting, original furnishings, and art work intact.
 

WASHINGTON, DC FIELD TRIP
AE Professor Moses Ling conducted a field trip to Washington, DC on Sept. 22-24, 2000 for AE 3rd year students as well as exchange students from the University of Leeds, England.  Sites visited included the Mitre Site, Gannett USA Today Site, the National Capitol and the National Building Museum.  Special thanks are extended for the warm hospitality of our hosts Ron Juban (’78 B.A.E.), Assistant Project Manager, Dominic Argentieri (’99 B.A.E.), Assistant Project Manager, Mike Pittsman (’79 B.A.E.), Project Manager and Bill Moyer (’92 AE), Vice President of James G. Davis Construction Corporation, Rockville, Maryland; Scott Miller (’97 AE), of Clark Construction Group, McLean, Virginia; Dan Hanlin, Office of the Capitol Architect; Jeff Caldwell (’97 B.A.E., ’98 M.S.), James Posey Associates, Baltimore, Maryland; and Emily Mudd-Hendricks, Assistant Volunteer and Visitor Service Coordinator, National Building Museum, Washington, DC.