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To: RightWhale
Wright is constantly held out as a great architect.

I think his home designs are hideous.

I'd hate to live in one.
9 posted on 01/12/2004 2:56:31 PM PST by Age of Reason
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To: Age of Reason
I don't care for his work.

I have read that he was a horrible control freak and forced the persons who commissioned him to use only his furnishing designs and not to move them from where he placed them, either.
11 posted on 01/12/2004 3:13:55 PM PST by annyokie (One good thing about being wrong is the joy it brings to others.)
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To: Age of Reason
I never saw the point of Frank Lloyd Wright, either. New shapes in architecture, some new ideas for household appliances. Not like he discovered fire or the wheel.
12 posted on 01/12/2004 3:16:41 PM PST by RightWhale (How many technological objections will be raised?)
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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.
16 posted on 01/12/2004 5:15:59 PM PST by mountaineer
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