I had a Frank Lloydd Wright house in Wisconsin. Very unique. Very interesting. Not a dwelling 99% of the public can appreciate at the level of practicality or market value.
Most of FLW’s houses are on some sort of historical or architectural register, making it next to impossible to make any changes or fixes or upgrades. This scares away many potential buyers.
Mine was a Usonian Architecture home.
Frank Lloyd Wright’s design skills sucked.
I’ve always been amused by those that thought he was such a genius.
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I’ve been to this house
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The one thing I agree with Franklin Lloyd Wright is that bedrooms should be small, since they are relatively single purpose rooms. Maximum the rest of the house, but minimize the bedroom.
Meh. His houses look cold and uncomfortable. I’d much rather view them as art than live in one.
Beautiful design. D- in engineering.
Sad.
Has all the appearances of a suburban Church which only boomer old people ge too. I bet it smells sweet, damp, and musky like several generations of grandmothers covering up for the mold growing in impossible to clean spaces.
Reminds me of a 60’s grade or high school.
We visited a few. I would never live in one.
Wright might have been a great artist, but he was a lousy architect - leaky roofs and lousy structural engineering are his hallmark.
So very much enjoying the stories and the varying points of view.
amazingly beautiful buildings, but the flat roofs tend to leak like sieves, and many seem so stark, that it seems difficult to figure out how one could make cozy, livable homes out of some of them, esp. if one keeps the FLW-designed angular furniture that was included in many of them ...
I wouldn’t want to live in a FLW house. I’d rather hire an architect and an engineer who understand what he was driving at and have them build me a home on those principles.
And then you have roof leaks. Not sure why he could not figure out the roof thing. My dad as an architect worked with him for a time. He never put a grade on his roofs, always had leaks. I stopped taking repair/re-roof requests from his projects. Been a roofer for 30 years, nothing that I miss about Wrights projects. That would be... the other side of the story.
The other question is, how in the name of Hades did he get famous? He sucked!
There’s a neighborhood near us with a few Lloyd Wright designed homes. For the most part, even though the designs are interesting, they’ve been allowed to deteriorate and the whole neighborhood is pretty shabby. Not at all like those built into, and protruding from, giant boulder homes in Sedona.
It’s not the cost of the house that will wipe you out financially! It’s the maintenance!