Frank Lloyd Wright

[HobieMarty]

I've always been a fan of his work. Most of his designs look modern to this day.

https://youtu.be/cVZ5s7X7-Zo?si=jGdJ2GNWn5O9VRdW

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[HobieMarty]

https://youtu.be/Cf0RrF6KsI8?si=rsVUAGd1A1wO1lH0

...and a little song that I've heard since I was a kid.

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[pavulon]

He designed some amazing buildings.

https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/frank-lloyd-wright/

[wdfifteen]

There is one of his "Prairie Style" homes near me; Westcott House in Springfield, Ohio. There are also a bunch of copycat homes in the area. I'm not a fan of the low roofs with deep overhangs over the windows. The views from the windows are nice, but the deep overhang keeps sun out and the rooms seem dark, even with lots of windows.

[LWJ]

^^^exactly.

His designs don’t work in Western Oregon where it is dark and dreary for 40-95% of the time.

[Sooner or later]

Wonderful designs.

[serene911]

This years show, Top Chef is being filmed in Wisconsin. Two episodes ago
the contestants toured 3 or 4 local, Frank Lloyd Wrights buildings that was
then, tied into a cooking challenge. It's worth watching that episode if you
can find it. It was quite interesting.

[3rd_gear_Ted]

I love my mid-century modern home.
Here's the story of another famous Cali home designer.
How many folks can name their homes architect?
https://www.redfin.com/blog/what-are-eichler-homes/

[look 171]

Originally Posted by 3rd_gear_Ted

I love my mid-century modern home.
Here's the story of another famous Cali home designer.
How many folks can name their homes architect?
https://www.redfin.com/blog/what-are-eichler-homes/

I think that is the turning point for American architecture, the mid century, into modern architecture. Wight is way before his time. a forward thinker for sure.

You like John Launter's work? We did the restoration interior work on Chemosphere. I lost a lot of hair over the inner workings of that new sliding door that fits flush into the weird arch on the Paralam Beam. Pocket door frame was welded, arch door glued, made and fitted on the job. I see it on some U tube vids, its still standing. I think I was about 30 at the time. Can't believe it was 25 years ago.

Wright has a bunch of homes and larger projects in and around LA. The Architect I did some work for lives in a Lloyd Wright house right off Mulholland and part of the foundation is a huge boulder that is exposed on the interior of the house.

There is a Neutra hosue at the end of my block. Those folks are pretty weird that live in it.

[rcooled]

Originally Posted by look 171

Wright has a bunch of homes and larger projects in and around LA.

Visited FLW's Hollyhock House several years ago. It's located just off Hollywood Blvd. and is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Completed in 1921, it was Wright's first project in the L.A. area.

[Crowbob]

One interesting thing about FLW homes is that they were pretty much unlivable.

Blade Runner (1982) and numerous others were filmed in Ennis House.

[rcooled]

Originally Posted by Crowbob

One interesting thing about FLW homes is that they were pretty much unlivable.

Yes, I've heard that too. Seems that Wright's homes were much more about form rather than function.

The only ocean-front home that he ever designed is just down the coast in Carmel, CA.

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by Crowbob

One interesting thing about FLW homes is that they were pretty much unlivable.

Blade Runner (1982) and numerous others were filmed in Ennis House.

I wouldn't say that about Fallingwater. But many of them do seem institutional.

[ramonesfreak]

Wright believed form and function were one and I believe he perfectly succeeded in that goal.

We have many Wright homes in the area and I’ve toured a few and driven down to Falling Water. The homes are from a different era. Regarding livabilities, you have to keep that in mind.

When the Stones were last in Buffalo the band got a tour of some local Wright homes…mighta just been Charlie and Mick, can’t remember

Their tour poster for the 2015 Buffalo show was a Wright theme




This is a local home. A cool pbs doc about it and a cool look inside

https://www.pbs.org/video/wxxi-presents-frank-lloyd-wrights-boynton-house-next-hundred-years/

And of course the Burns documentary on FLW is excellent if you can watch it.

[craigster59]

I'm more of a Greene & Greene aficionado, a more clean and natural construction and look.

FLW sort of had a hand in the "Brutalish Architecture" that you see. Like living in a Community College building.

[Crowbob]

Originally Posted by Zeke

I wouldn't say that about Fallingwater. But many of them do seem institutional.

Wright often required complete authority over the furnishing of his homes. It was a package deal in many cases.

Straight-backed dining chairs, geometric couches and loungers, completely and totally impractical niches, coves and fireplaces. Inaccessible kitchens, dysfunctional bathrooms, hundreds of square feet of uninsulated glazing, stone and concrete surfaces requiring constant vigilance against mold and mildew. Complete abandonment of traffic flow and remarkably drafty floor plans.

But, and this is indisputable, his most innovative interpretations of organic exteriors and interiors are such that his eouvre is a brutal and completely conscious challenge to fractal nature. He compliments nature by his command over it. And it is beautiful.

[look 171]

The Innes, Hollyhock houses were all less then 2 miles from where I went to high school with a couple more only a few more miles away. We didn't know any better then of course.

In terms of form over function, I agree. IMO. FLW is a much better designer over the Greene and Greene brothers. I know, different styles and I remodeled one of their smaller home, the Bowen house. FLW's designs are just so grand whereas The Brother's are more functional. Around here, most of FLR homes are on hills whereas Greene and Greenes are mostly on flat lands around Pasadena, old east coast money. Both have a tremendous amount of wood by now, over 100 years later, rot or termite have done its damage. Especially the Greene and Greene homes due to location and changes in the neighborhood, the occupants did lots of damage, just like the Bowen house. It was a rental for some time.

[GH85Carrera]

I toured his studio-museum near Chicago. The neighborhood has several of his houses that we saw the outside of on a walking tour. His places do look nice.

The only high rise he ever did is in Oklahoma.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_Tower

[Tobra]

Originally Posted by Zeke

I wouldn't say that about Fallingwater. But many of them do seem institutional.

Fallingwater has some fairly major architectural problems

[flipper35]

Taliesin is not far from us. I took my wife early in our marriage since she is a fan of the style and was born and raised in CA and had only seen pictures. Wouldn't want to live in one, but appreciates using the local materials.

Some of the commercial buildings are interesting to look at as well, but most of his stuff is of the style that is great in a calendar, not in real life.