Frank Lloyd Wright

[Mike Andrew]

I am a genius who also paints - Dali.

Had the good fortune to spend 5 months in Cleveland for work in the late '70's. I discovered the Dali museum. in Beachwood and spent several afternoons there. Hard to find and was tucked above an injection molding supply company in an industrial park. Subsequently, it was moved to Florida. I still have a bunch of 35mm slides I shot.

I should have grabbed a few singed lithos but was way too poor paying rent and student loans to afford the $125.00. Did grab a few non signed and a pair of ties.

[ramonesfreak]

Originally Posted by Crowbob

It's falling over. Or was AFAIK.

When I was there in August of 1998, the entire building was shrouded by scaffolding.

Very irritating as I went there to take photos and the scaffolding ruined that.

Not sure what the current state of it is

[Crowbob]

I went to The Salvadore Dali Museum in St. Petersburg shortly after it opened in 1982. In 2010 the collection has been housed in an appropriately bizarre and surreal museum.

My favorite is The Hallucinogenic Toreador (1968-1970) which, last I heard was at the Tate in London. Toreador is a classic double image, ‘atomic’ painting and numerous other recurrent themes he developed over the years.

Dali suffered from numerous mental conditions including bouts of depression, anxiety, phobias. He experienced hallucinations fugue states, night terrors and, it is said, needed help maintaining himself at times. The issue of his psychiatric disorders is confounded by his persistent and exaggerated showmanship.

[Crowbob]

[Crowbob]

The famous soft watches (The Peristence of Memory, 1931 MOMA) below, is filled with images and themes. DALI professed to having memory of intrauterine life depicted as the deflated foetus near the center. The meaning of the watches is likewise subject to various interpretations including the elasticity of time and ‘the soft watches are nothing else than the tender, extravagant and solitary paranoic-critical Camembert of time and space’, whatever that means. Apparently, he was wondering when Gala (wife and muse) was going to return home whilst contemplating the softness of the Camembert he had eaten earlier. The ants were a life-long phobia of his. The mountains represent his youth when he would stare for hours at a Spanish mountain range. His ‘paranoic-critical’ ideas are represented by the irrational juxtaposition of softness of the clocks with the hard surfaces of the table top and the ‘plate’ of ocean (upper left):

[Crowbob]

I apologize for the hi-Jack. I get excited at such things as art, architecture, mental illness and other things all jumbled up in a paranoic-critical way.

[targa911S]

My house was built in 1959 by Don Scholz, at the time a young FLW influenced home builder. My home is very MCM with heavy FLW influence The whole back of the home is ceiling to floor glass.

[Zeke]

Very nice, Targa.

[Steve Carlton]

Agree. That house has a special quality to it!

[Tobra]

You could not get a permit in California to build that house.

[HobieMarty]

I Love that house!!!

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[Zeke]

Originally Posted by Tobra

You could not get a permit in California to build that house.

I think you could. If the glass is what the issue is, then there's an energy engineering work around called surcharging. This is not to be confused with energy billing and they may use a different term for it today.

The concept is if there is too much energy loss due to an architectural feature (usually fenestration) then upping the values of other parts of the building to an overall compliant number will get approval.

On Targa's house, the open ceilings would be a double framed roof that looked like his from the inside. I've done it. The extra glass could also be triple glazed at considerable expense but meet the U factor as well as solar gain factor. The large overhang counts bigly in SHGC (acronym for solar gain).

The roof color would likely be quite light; certainly not dark. Covered with aesthetic solar panels would work too. Have you seen a Tesla roof?