Paul Mayén

Paul Mayén (May 31, 1916 – November 3, 2000) was a Spanish architect and industrial designer known for his work at Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater.

Early years Mayén was born on May 31, 1916, in La Línea de la Concepción, a town in Cádiz in Andalucia, Spain. He graduated from Cooper Union in New York City with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and from Columbia University with a master's degree during World War II. and was the founder of Habitat, Intrex and Architectural Supplements, Inc. Kaufmann entrusted the Wright structures and several hundred acres of the surrounding pristine Laurel Highlands lands in the Allegheny Mountains to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy as an architectural house museum and conservation open space preserve, in memory of his parents.

From 1979 to 1981, Mayén oversaw the building of the Fallingwater pavilion, which houses the café, gift store, and visitor center at Fallingwater. In 1975, Mayén built a country house for himself and Kaufmann in Garrison, New York, on the east side of the Hudson River. Known as Water Run, this property was sold in 2021 for $1.6M. Kaufmann died in 1989, and his ashes were scattered around the property at Fallingwater by Mayén.

Mayén died on November 3, 2000. His ashes were also scattered at Fallingwater in accordance with his wishes.