Vancouver Sun

The following is a test.Name three famous U.S. houses. Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater. Check. Thomas Jefferson's Monticello. Check. Mies van der Rohe's glass house. Check. Okay, now name three famous Canadian houses. Um, er, ah. Well, exactly. I took that test, rather cockily I might add, fancying myself something of an amateur architecture buff, because the summer 2006 issue of the Connecticut-based Fine Homebuilding Houses magazine challenged me to. Its cover, featuring a photograph of the surreal, embedded-in-the-woods engineering feat that is Wright's cantilevered Fallingwater house in Bear Run, Pennsylvania, just seemed so obvious in its architectural patriotism, boasting as its headline does The 25 most important houses in America.