Posted on 10/20/2019 9:38:39 AM PDT by BenLurkin
He did some cool stuff but, truth be told, some of his designs had challenges with things like leaky roofs, poor structural integrity, etc.
Still, he was to architecture what Hendrix was to rock guiter - at least to me.
Love FLW!
The famous complaint of Emperor Joseph II about The Marriage of Figaro - “too many notes, Mozart” - is generally perceived to be a gaffe by a blockhead. In fact, Joseph was echoing what nearly everybody, including his admirers, said about Mozart: he was so imaginative that he couldn’t turn it off, and that made his music at times intense, even demonic. Hence Mozart’s bad, or cautionary, reviews: “too strongly spiced”; “impenetrable labyrinths”; “bizarre flights of the soul”; “overloaded and overstuffed”.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2004/jun/04/classicalmusicandopera
I agree with your assessment of FLW. I live a short drive from his Taliesin. :)
https://www.taliesinpreservation.org/
I think it’s gorgeous! :)
I’ve seen his houses in Florence and Bentonville. I didn’t care for them.
My wife & I were 19 y/o kids who moved from Dayton, OH to Hollywood.
Needless to say, our apt did not have that view...
I love clean, simple lines and why I truly admire FLW designs.
I have that, but they haven’t done a Lego version of the Ennis House.
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