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To: Richard Kimball
I’ve always thought Frank Lloyd Wright was one of the primary reasons for all the fugly buildings we see today.

I think that most of the FLW buildings I've seen are pretty nice. The problem was that he insisted on building his way and wouldn't listen to engineers and, so, the architect built nice-looking things that developed terrible structural problems over the years.
9 posted on 12/12/2009 8:12:44 PM PST by aruanan
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To: aruanan
I didn't explain myself very well. Wright's buildings were aesthetically pleasing, but IMHO, tended to leave no place for a human being in them. The copy cats that followed Wright pushed the geometry and made some truly disgusting architecture.

I had heard that many of Wright's buildings have structural problems.

13 posted on 12/12/2009 8:24:22 PM PST by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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To: aruanan

I guess that is a nice way to say they all leaked.


16 posted on 12/13/2009 12:10:09 AM PST by Domangart (editor and publisher)
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