Frank Lloyd Wright
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- sparker0
the imperial hotel was an amazing achievement in structural substance.
it survived the earthquake that leveled the rest of the city.
- unfittoprint0
I understand some of your views toward the structural aspects. Corbusier, Mies had also similar problems (with different magnitudes) with deficient predictions of materials and structure behaviour. Even recently Gehry's Gugenheim in Bilbao had some extreme problems (umpredictable) with its titanium 'skin'.
- mbr0
It did? Do you have any links to news? I'd be interested in reading about it.
I haven't seen anything in the magazines or sites.FLW's documentary from PBS should be at your local library. I just watched it (again). Great stuff. You gotta love the guy, he had such attitude and style, till his last day.
Trivia - he designed Falling Water in 3 hours.
There are thousands of good books. Look around, I've picked up some great ones for fractions of the listed price.
- unfittoprint0
There's is this CNN link: http://www.cnn.com/2001/STYLE/de…
but I read that in the portuguese architects journal and QUADERNS (my favourite architecture magazine - spanish). They portrayed a worse 'picture'...
- JazX0
There's an entire branch devoted to FLW in the Carngie Museum in Pittsburgh. It's pretty nice shit.
http://www.cmoa.org/
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/art…
- rh0
Jaz, have you checked out Kentuck Knob? If any of you guys make it out to Fallingwater, you might as well check this one out - it's only 15 minutes from there: http://www.kentuckknob.com/