Peter Berndtson

In 1938, he began studies at Frank Lloyd Wright's (1867-1959) Taliesin Fellowship, where he worked on projects that included the Guggenheim Museum.

[1] Here, he also met and soon married another student, Cornelia Brierly, who had also studied at Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The couple settled in Western Pennsylvania and together applied Wrightian theories to home design.

Berndtson's best known work is Polymath Park, which is located sixty miles southwest of Pittsburgh in the Laurel Highlands and sited near Wright's Fallingwater and Kentuck Knob.

Just East of Pittsburgh, in west Mifflin, there is a small group of privately-owned, Berndtson-designed homes.