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OCR: Fallingwater is Wright most dramatic and daring use of reinforced concrete The house is designed as series of trays cantilevered from stone base walls the cantilevers apparently SO exaggerated as to defi gravity Helping to stiffen the trays are the three foot -high parapets which run around them and them back into the supporting structure Wright was urged by his client and engi neers to reduce the distance of the over hang but he refused certain that his cautilevered cautilevers defy stiffeu