Frank Lloyd Wright

Check these photos out: http://www.flickr.com/photos/18276798@N07/sets/72157604297278046/

 

Thanks for the link.

 

I just picked up The Fellowship, The Untold Story of Frank Lloyd Wright & The Taliesin Fellowship. I haven't had time to start reading it yet, but I'll let you know how it goes.

Speaking of FLLW-related books, I highly recommend the Secrest bio and Fallingwater Rising, which has been optioned for movie rights.

 

I'm a little slow on this news, but it looks like La Miniatura is for sale.

http://la.curbed.com/archives/2008/04/rumormongering_2.php?o=8

 

My roommates an architect and last night we watched the first part of the PBS documentary on him (DVD).

It's really interesting the life he led.

My roommate pointed out to me that so many of the great architects grew up in less than great atmosphere's.

 

Great Documentary. I often think about how how good a movie his life could make. Also, why it hasn't been done and how it would look if directed by Kubric.

 

Toker's Fallingwater Rising has been optioned, apparently:

http://www.haa.pitt.edu/faculty/toker.html

 

Fri 23 May NYT piece on FLW homes for sale.

 

The two architects that learned from Wright and then became their own men are Robert Oshatz and Bart Prince.
Here is a house boat! by Oshatz:
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beyond daring!

 

Too young to have trained under Wright, but a Taliesin grad nonetheless, Michael Rust.

http://www.rust-architect.com/
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Thanks for the link to Michael Rust.

 

For those that did not know, the Ennis house is currently for sale. I heard about it last month, just now remembered about this thread.

http://www.luxist.com/2009/06/19/frank-lloyd-wrights-ennis-house-up-for-sale/


Wright's for sale and each house has a seperate Web site! : http://www.savewright.org/index.php?page=33&id=96

 

http://www.bairdwarner.com/real-estate/il/riverside/07656963.cfm

Check out the full screen slide show - some excellent detail shots.

 

Thanks for the link.
Seeing the current furniture (even the period correct mission pieces) you realize just how much of a piece his work was. I wonder how much it would cost to remake the originals.
In any case its great to see that its been preserved.

 

Just found this thread. While I have always appreciated FLW, he has never been absolute favorite of mine. With one exception. I think his best work was a civic building (my favorite civic building, in fact) completed after his death. I'm surprised nobody in this thread had mentioned the Marin County Civic Center:

http://www.mydyslexiasolutions.com/FLWMarinCountyCivicCenterSa.jpg

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_Ehfgb-HxaGs/SBSZhl_ZlII/AAAAAAAAACc/9PRyE1dfvvo/450px-Marin_County_Civic_Center_Inside_20060610.jpg

http://o1.aolcdn.com/dims-shared/dims3/PATCH/resize/600x450/http://hss-prod.hss.aol.com/hss/storage/patch/ca95c61b5846e4cbab5729a7928b31a3

It's beautiful, functional, and does something which is very rare in modern architecture...manages to look like it's been here forever. The repeating Roman arches are an homage to a great civilization that has passed, but the bold shapes, colors and "just right" amount of ornamentation make it wholly appropriate as home of the space agency in the movie Gattaca.

 

I guess you would like this too:

http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/wisconsin/milwaukee/wrightgrkortho/verydistant.jpg

 

Wright did a number of civic and commercial buildings including the Park Avenue Mercedes showroom and a gas sation.
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Someone brought this thread back from the dead.

Here's something I saw in California last year.
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I think this is why I am so fond of FLW. It's as if he was operating in a different time and place than everyone around him.

Very nice. Any more pics?

 

Here is a link http://www.fnbofdwight.com/info/wright.html to a bank FLW designed. It was built in 1906.

 

Some graduates of FLW School --- Russell Barr Williamson & John Randal McDonald

Google them for their designs. As a resident of Wisconsin for most of my life I saw many homes build by all three of them.

 

Frank Lloyd Wright Paper Models
http://coolmaterial.com/media/frank-lloyd-wright-paper-models-book/

 

I assume most of you know two things. One, Dude was short, and you know what they say about short people? Two, his houses leaked like a sieve. I salute him for blowing up the box. But, I would never buy one of his houses.


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As cool as his ‘Falling Water’ is...........I could never live in that house.