To: Age of Reason; martin_fierro
I agree, F. L. Wright's designs are really quite inadequate as actual, practical homes. Falling Waters has been falling apart for decades. It seems the great man wasn't quite so great when it came to the nuts 'n' bolts of building a house in which real people might live. Funny, my house is older than Falling Waters and doing just fine - I guess my small town contractor had a much more realistic notion of what a real home should be.
To: mountaineer
Seems that Wright (who, in his personal life, was a world-class butthole) forgot the fundamental rule of good design:
FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION.
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01/12/2004 5:27:38 PM PST by
martin_fierro
(HEY! I'm tryin' t'run a classy thread here!)
To: mountaineer
FLW's 3rd wife was Olgivanna Lasovich,a Serb from Crna Gora and schooled in Russia. She kept Taliesan operating smoothly for him.
To: mountaineer
Although as uncomfortable-looking as I find Wright's designs, I find them less offensive than many of the new homes that are springing up all over.
Some are truly the velvet art of architecture.
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