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To: Mia T; sultan88; PhiKapMom
"I wonder what caused Wright to make the somewhat anti-Usonian comment..."

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

41 posted on 11/16/2002 3:46:00 AM PST by Mudboy Slim
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To: Mudboy Slim
Actually, I was thinking that the typewriter was the metaphor for some less-than-laudatory critique of his work.

Have you seen Gehry's Bilbao-like model of the Guggenheim waterfront museum proposed for downtown NY? It looked rather looming to me...
42 posted on 11/16/2002 5:20:41 AM PST by Mia T
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