This column owes its existence to a curious incident. A teacher at Moscow State University showed his history students postcards of architectural masterpieces and ordinary buildings from the last 500 years. Without titles. And asked them to indicate which were masterpieces and which merely buildings. To his horror, the students put most 20^th-century architectural monuments into the second category. So we’ve decided to discuss these monuments with our readers in order to try to understand what they are about. First up is Frank Lloyd-Wright’s Fallingwater (1936). Wright claimed that the purpose of this villa was to reconcile man and nature. At the same time, the protruding concrete slabs are like the broken ribs of someone who has had a bad fall. Please fell free to post any comments you may have in the CAI section of our forum.