Posted on 11/13/2002 6:53:38 AM PST by Mia T
Actually, despite works such as the Guggenheim Museum, FLW as a Post-Modernist in an age of Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, and Mies van der Rohe. Sure, ego probably played into it, but most accomplished architects are rather egomaniacal, as you have to be to make a mark on the land that will be there many generations after you are dead and gone.
The thing I like most about Mr. Wright, though, is that the longevity of his career and the generosity of his patrons allowed him to produce a collection of works that go accross the design spectrum. Fallingwater to Guggenheim, Dobie House to his never-built Mile-High Skyscraper, the dude produced some neat stuff!!
FReegards...MUD
LOL...yes, you are absolutely correct. I'm trying to figger out how I went off on that tangent and all I can figger is that I totally mistook the meaning of anti-Usonian as being anti-Utilitarian and/or anti-Modern...LOL!! What's anti-Usonian mean, again?!
"Have you seen Gehry's Bilbao-like model of the Guggenheim waterfront museum proposed for downtown NY? It looked rather looming to me..."
No...but I do plan on getting up to Manhattan to hang out for a few days...it's a wonderful place to visit, but I could NEVER live there. Still, the plethora of interesting architectural accomplishments--successful and otherwise--is worth a revisit every year or so, and I haven't been up there since 9/11.
FReegards...MUD
BTW...I am very interested in seeing that the Twin Towers get rebuilt taller and grander than before.
The Usonian house was Wright's attempt to fulfill the Jeffersonian ideal that land and home ownership were the birthright of all Americans, Wright's goal was to create well-designed, efficient homes for the American middle class. "Usonia" was derived from "USA" and signified in Wright's mind the America of the future. Technological innovation was important and exploited, hence my typewriter (typeWRIGHTer!!) reference...(Perhaps a bit of a stretch, I concede... ;) ) Gehry's model/proposal for a Bilbao-like Guggenheim waterfront museum for downtown NY was at the Guggenheim awhile ago. It's almost certainly still there--they are trying to raise the tons of money the massive project will cost.
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If you look back at the Sears-Roebuck "mail-order homes" that were available to folks in the 30's, 40's and 50's, you can see some available plans that mimic FLW's architecture's strong horizontality and bold roof overhangs. No denying Wright's influence on American design, that's fer sure.
FReegards...MUD
FReegards...MUD
Dubyas realness defined clinton's plasticity
Excellent! Dubya's morality defined clinton deconstruction and subversion Dubya's good defined clinton evil
Architecture, Politics and Deconstruction: It is unclear whether clinton latched onto deconstructionist theory because its intrinsic inability to be critical provided convenient cover for clinton's inability to think critically or whether clinton was attracted to deconstruction merely because it had surplanted Marxism as the preferred opiate of leftist elites.
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So true. I related to Stern as Stanford White--loved his shingle style stuff--but I think his Disney commission became his reality. Was actually inside some of his houses and they are parodies--Disneyana of the most Mickey Mouse sort.
I'm not against humor in architecture, but I draw the line when the joke's on the project instead of in it.
It is unclear whether clinton latched onto deconstructionist theory because its intrinsic inability to be critical provided convenient cover for clinton's inability to think critically or whether clinton was attracted to deconstruction merely because it had surplanted Marxism as the preferred opiate of leftist elites.
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Q ERTY9 BUMP! Without malicious intent...yes, it certainly seems so. Excellent point. Your comment about Bush's almost universally perceived lack of malice reminds me of a comment -- one of hundreds of hysterical (literally) rationalizations propounded by a panel of leftist academics hastily assembled last week to explain away the Democrat debacle of '02. This person actually said that whereas Bush is perceived by the people as trying to change the noxious [i.e., clinton] atmosphere in Washington, there has never been a more poisonous administration than his. |
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Clearly someone should notify America's founders that they have erred... men are not deserving of self goverment, because clearly self government is nothing more than the aggregation of all our psychic traumas and libidinal confusions.. and look where that has gotten us...one Clinton leaving the white house and one aiming for the US Senate for the State of New York... perhaps the liberals ARE onto something? But no, study the last two Clinton elections carefully... this most shameless and shameful American President is the product of plurality (less than majority) votes obtained through the gile and intrigue of an elitist cabal of intellectually impaired and ethically corrupt media manipulators aligned in effect with the electoral tampering of one man, H. Ross Perot, who although he occasionally gave a good speech was still intelligent enough to know his only role was to twice deny the conservative majority of American voters a first choice for President. Gail Wynand, "Be Liberal, Live in Ignorance and Servitude"
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"Be Liberal, Live in Ignorance and Servitude" by Gail Wynand Liberals have always had problems figuring out causation. They believe for example that because people who smoke (sometimes) have higher rates of cancer than people who don't that smoking CAUSES cancer, worse, they believe that if people get cancer it is the fault of the "tobacco companies" (i.e., caused by the manufactures of tobacco products). They further believe that the remedy for this fault is that billions of dollars in "damages" should be transferred from the wealth of stockholders in tobacco companies to a handful of plaintiffs lawyers including the First Lady's relatives and others closely associated with the Democratic party. And they believe, apparently, that if young people are now experimenting with sex at early ages and with more profoundly explicit practices than in past years, and that if the President of the United States decides to enroll a young intern in rendition of such services to his middle aged libido resultantly staining both her dress and America's reputation, that a spontaneous wave of teenage sex experimentation, sucked (sorry) the poor middle aged chief executive into its vortex. Deducing causation in most events takes deliberate, focused, thought, insight, and a disciplined intelligence that doesnt skip foundational indoctrination (aka actually studying in school). Causation of the diseases associated with cancer is highly complex and to a large degree still unknown. That smoking is probably not healthy for you is well known. That a middle aged chief executive, Yale Law School graduate, former professor of Constitutional Law and State Attorney General should be responsible and accountable for his own actions including HIS perjury and obstruction of justice would seem axiomatic to all but a liberal who has the capacity to adopt causationally convenient theories based solely on tangential proximity to the event under examination rather than through any rational analysis of the importance or significance of the asserted cause to the event. Thus, "guns" are used in some murders therefore, to a liberal all "guns" should be either banned or kept in locked safes with trigger locks so as to disarm the law abiding public and eviscerate their legally recognized right to effective self defense. Quite simply, one has to be pretty stupid or very corrupt or both to be a liberal, at least and for sure to be a Clinton supporter. But it is worse than that, one also has to deny the importance of human consciousness and free will. That is, a Clinton defending liberal apparently believes that childhood psychic trauma, teenage sex trends (remarkably and largely only rampant among the social classes targeted by liberals for social intervention for the past 40 years) and the power of "addiction" which used to be considered merely "habituation" in more stalwart times, are more significant than free will in determining human conduct.
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