Scottpat Posted May 23, 2011 Report Share Posted May 23, 2011 Found this little tidbit of news on Frank Lloyd Wright homes that are for sale. http://www.foxnews.com/slideshow/leisur ... e/#slide=1 New link....!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kogel Posted May 23, 2011 Report Share Posted May 23, 2011 Page Not Found The page you are looking for has either moved or is no longer available, but you may be interested in the content below. [?] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Meiland Posted May 23, 2011 Report Share Posted May 23, 2011 It worked for me... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les Posted May 23, 2011 Report Share Posted May 23, 2011 didn't work for me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Raymond Posted May 23, 2011 Report Share Posted May 23, 2011 Just type 'wright' in the site's search window. It'll be #2, #4, and the first two available slideshows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kogel Posted May 23, 2011 Report Share Posted May 23, 2011 Thanks Tom. Hard to believe these places are 100 years old or more. http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/636-N ... 2860_zpid/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Kibbel Posted May 24, 2011 Report Share Posted May 24, 2011 I can't understand how the AIA declared him “the greatest American architect of all time†Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted May 24, 2011 Report Share Posted May 24, 2011 Thread drift...Spouse and I toured an antebellum home today. A bookstore within it had this: Click to Enlarge 34.25 KB Pardon the picture quality. Are you interested in a copy Bill K? Marc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurt Posted May 24, 2011 Report Share Posted May 24, 2011 I can't understand how the AIA declared him ââ¬Åthe greatest American architect of all timeâ⬠Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Kibbel Posted May 24, 2011 Report Share Posted May 24, 2011 Marc, I really appreciate the thought, but I have it (or had it). I think I have the 1970s reprint. It's loaded with moulding profiles and column capitols. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Moore Posted May 24, 2011 Report Share Posted May 24, 2011 I can't understand how the AIA declared him ââ¬Åthe greatest American architect of all timeâ⬠Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allseason Posted May 24, 2011 Report Share Posted May 24, 2011 What I commonly hear is that Wright built beautiful buildings that leak. My nephew is an architect and loves to tell stories about the mistakes that Wright sometimes made as far as structural elements. The importance of his career is his influence on building design from an aesthetic standpoint and not structure. In a town near my own in a wooded area that is a state park is one of his houses. The living space is separated from the bathroom so you need to walk outside to hit the head, a real eye opener after 18" of snowfall. Just doesn't seem to make sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurt Posted May 24, 2011 Report Share Posted May 24, 2011 When I was first there in the 70's, it was at it's worst; it literally looked like a sagging messy treehouse some kid had put together. That's only years, so it actually starting falling apart after about 15-20 years. I briefly lived in a Usonian home in Kalamazoo, MI. Nasty, mean, cold little spaces. Not so visionary. OTOH, I did a job the other day down next to the Robie House; awe inspiring and breathtaking urban architecture. Back in the 70's, I house sat for the owner of the Chandler House, Wright's very first commission. That was pretty darn amazing; another urban residential miracle. So, he's a complicated mix of stuff. Calling him the "greatest architect" just doesn't sit right, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Katen Posted May 24, 2011 Report Share Posted May 24, 2011 . . . Calling him the "greatest architect" just doesn't sit right, though. Possibly because that's how he described himself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allseason Posted May 24, 2011 Report Share Posted May 24, 2011 People imagine him as the best because he told them. He was a very good self promoter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Moore Posted May 24, 2011 Report Share Posted May 24, 2011 Click to Enlarge 28.65 KB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bain Posted May 24, 2011 Report Share Posted May 24, 2011 Whether it's music, painting, literature, or architecture . . . how can any one person be labeled the greatest when our tastes in art are so wildly divergent? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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