Official Frank Lloyd Wright appreciation thread
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BChaps1209
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fuck yes i went to one of his houses in arizona once it was paradise.
PagesHouse
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The organization I work for owns Fallingwater! It's sweet. So is Kentuck Knob.
schusson
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I'm working on a research paper about him right now. its mind blowing how everything in his houses tie together. this is from one of my sources about Fallingwater
"Symbolically the hatch plays an even bigger role in the house's, orientation, 30 degrees east of south. "If you trace the line from the entrance into the house to the far corner of the living room toward the terrace that overshoots the falls, that diagonal aligns perfectly with the path of the stream below," says Levine. "If you then take a line from the fireplace to the hatch, that line crosses the other diagonal at 90 degrees, and it aligns with the ledge that creates the falls. Typically you mark a site with a cross. In this case, the cross is locked in, aligned with those two very important aspects of the site: the sound and the movement of the water."
"Symbolically the hatch plays an even bigger role in the house's, orientation, 30 degrees east of south. "If you trace the line from the entrance into the house to the far corner of the living room toward the terrace that overshoots the falls, that diagonal aligns perfectly with the path of the stream below," says Levine. "If you then take a line from the fireplace to the hatch, that line crosses the other diagonal at 90 degrees, and it aligns with the ledge that creates the falls. Typically you mark a site with a cross. In this case, the cross is locked in, aligned with those two very important aspects of the site: the sound and the movement of the water."
Barefootin_Fiend
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fucking love flw...i would slaughter a kitten to live in one of his homes.
NinetyFour
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You would probably have to do a lot more than that though... Definite battle between him and Gehry for the worlds greatest architect IMO. But they come from what seem to be radically separated era's, so for that reason I dont think one can be better than the other. Some of the stuff FLW did early on though was amazing to me. Hard to believe shit could look so good being from the late 1800's.
KingGeedorah
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I think that Gehry's architecture is incredible, because of how difficult it must've been to design it so that it actually holds up, but I don't really like the look of it too much. I think Gaudi is definitely up there.
TonyTheTiger
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Wright was a good engineer! He's done some really cool stuff as an architect too. I like the usonian houses for their "modest" aproach and they do give out the architects view of the US situation at that time. Still, its not revolutionnary because always in the same mindset, and somewhat regressive (while its actually a progression) in using Arts and Crafts from the UK. And after falling water, he started to somewhat make less interesting stuff. Also, if you look into his prairie houses like Farnworth, notice that since the man was very short, the ceilings are very low, so good luck feeling good there. I like, yeah.