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It never ceases to amaze me how Wright's style was so ahead of the times. A lot of people immediately think the houses are mid-50's but they're in fact 20 to 30
by twright 2mo ago
It never ceases to amaze me how Wright's style was so ahead of the times. A lot of people immediately think the houses are mid-50's but they're in fact 20 to 30 years earlier! If you happen to be driving through somewhere near one of the houses that are under conservancy[1] they are well worth a stop.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Frank_Lloyd_Wright_works https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Frank_Lloyd_Wright_wor...
- CGMthrowaway 2mo agoFLW created the times
- UncleOxidant 2mo agoThere's something similar in cinema. For example, I was watching Terrance Malick's Badlands for the first time a couple of years ago and I could swear it felt like a film from the 90s or maybe early 2000s. But it was from 1973.
- bookofjoe 2mo agoI think you would enjoy "The Sugarland Express," directed by 26-year-old Steven Spielberg and released in 1974. https://youtu.be/JLSQBAXIKtk?si=Q8FP4c8v72PiZU93 https://youtu.be/JLSQBAXIKtk?si=Q8FP4c8v72PiZU93 Available here: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=trailer+sugarland+express https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=trailer+sugarla...
- phlakaton 2mo ago45 years earlier in some cases. I found the Robie House in Chicago (built in 1910!) to be a total head-trip.
- allknowingfrog 2mo agoIsn't Wright sort of famous for designing structures that leak when it rains? My understanding is that Falling Water House is a beautiful money pit.
- Aurornis 2mo agoFalling Water was an engineering disaster, but it was a unique project for him. Most of his houses are not like that.
- TremendousJudge 2mo agowell, it's often said that all good architecture leaks [0] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0j0d2ymixY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0j0d2ymixY
- chasil 2mo agoI thought the "move your chair" story concerned the Kauffmans of Falling Water, but it did not. https://bpsfuelforthought.wordpress.com/2019/02/23/move-your-chair/ https://bpsfuelforthought.wordpress.com/2019/02/23/move-your...
- twright 2mo agoMoney pit indeed! At Graycliff, the one he designed before Falling Water, there are no gutters or downspouts. The tour guide told us that Wright didn’t want them disrupting the horizontal lines of the house. The roof is cedar shake and there’s some wonderful moulding just below the roofline that gutters would normally protect. It must be astronomic to maintain it.
- BobbyTables2 2mo agoI read that as “molding” just below the roofline …
- bmitc 2mo agoHis architecture was generally very, very progressive for the time and pushed the bounds of construction and structural engineering. As someone else mentioned, he was designing houses that look newer than they actually are.
- frantathefranta 2mo agoIt's really amusing when you tour something like Casa Loma[0] in Toronto (a gothic revival house) and then compare it to the Darwin Martin house[1] in Buffalo, which was built basically 10 years before. I can't imagine visiting a FLW house in the early 1900s and then building a super kitschy castle. [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casa_Loma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casa_Loma [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_D._Martin_House https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_D._Martin_House
- leoc 2mo agoThings like the Dessau Bauhaus and the German Pavilion in Barcelona were built in the 1920s. Post-war Modernism was a bit of a second wind.
- foota 2mo agoWow he was born a _lot_ earlier than I would have thought!