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Isn'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.
by allknowingfrog 2mo ago
Isn'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.