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.
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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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