A little dyslexia there...Hadid! Interesting work, some of it much in the "Architecture as Art" genre.
JSa330 and Joev Thanks for the welcome to the board i'll do my best to contribute as much as possible. I am actually still in architecture school so i still have alot to learn but i'll add my opinion whenever I see fit. haha JSA330 where are you located It must be pretty exciting to have Calatrava doing some kind of work in your area. I agree libeskind and Gehry almost go hand hand, but I apreciate Libeskind's work alot more. I think Gehry has created some very unattractive buildings in the past and I'm just not sure if I agree with turning scribbles into buildings. To me his buildings are more of a novelty than anything else. I imagine a city made completely of Gehry architecture would drive anyone insane. The feeling would not be the same if a town was filled with FWL architecture. Gehry's Norton house Image Unavailable, Please Login
We're off topic here, folks. This is the Wright thread. Not Gehry, not Hadid, not Calatrava. Some highlights from last week's trip to Florida Southern College. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
youngarch...I'm in Dallas, TX. As part of a very comprehensive and longterm urban plan, Calatrava has been involved in the design of some new bridges that are designed to span a very wide riverbottom/floodplain that cuts through a large area of the city. I feel pretty much the same way you do about Gehry, in that he's the current flavor, though I do admire the audaciousness and scale of of his work and his success in getting it built. Where are you going to school? b-mak...you are wright, this is the FLW thread...nice detail pics, thanks for posting.
Sorry about that B mac. I didn't know FLW had designed a building here in Florida. I will have to go check it out. JSA330, I currently goign to school at FLorida Atlantic University. I might be switching to Boston Architectural College. Not sure yet. How do you guys feel about the Guggenheim in New york? I think the interior of this building is great although the outside isn't to pleasing in my opinion. The idea of having guest start viewing exhitbits at the top so they can make their way down the ramp is a good one. I imagine it is an interesting place to be in. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
There are a couple of FLW homes within spitting distance of my house. I'll get by this weeked and get some shots if weather permits. DM
What does this mean? Sounds good ... but dang, I have not a clue what Wright is saying. Wright was a great architect and a great promoter. But I don't think his published words provide much insight into his designs... Image Unavailable, Please Login
http://www.calatrava.com/main.htm Youngarch...link to Calatrava's website with Trinity River bridge design for Dallas. You'll have to go to "Current Projects"; it's the last one listed. Awesome indeed...I hadn't seen pics of these for quite awhile. Wright had to have been regarded like Gehry is now when the Guggenheim was built...then, truly a spaceship in staid classical uptown Manhattan. I think it's a great building and not at all unsuited to its purpose; I've got to qualify that by confessing that the Gug was that one last stop we didn't get to make on our last trip to NYC in 1984, so I've never seen it in reality. Next trip, for sure.
I have some good photos somewhere, but this house belongs to one of our fellow f-chatters in SC. It was designed by Alfred Browning Parker a direct student of Frank Lloyd Wright's. We will be having a concours at the estate in mid June, celebrating art, architecture, and the automobile. We would love for you to join us. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
That is a fascinating house Dincenzo...thanks for posting. I don't know if we should start an Alfred Browning Parker thread or put them here since he was a student of FLW's, but if the FChatter in question is willing, I would love to see lots of pics of that home. Do you know what year it was built? Thanks.
1. DeRhodes House, South Bend, Indiana. 2. Entrance to "The Acres", Galesburg, Michigan. 3. Pratt House, Galesburg, Michigan. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Jon - expalining an FLW quote is way past my abilities however, another of my favourites is: ""Every great architect is -- necessarily -- a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age"
That's cool b-mak I was literally doing a search for FLW works in Michigan to plan a road trip when you posted. It seems there are four in Okemos...would be very easy to visit. FLW in Michigan: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/1469/flw_mi.html
Joe, I've totally forgotten to point out Peter Beers' site at http://www.peterbeers.net/interests/flw_rt/flw_roadtrip.htm Enjoy!
Joe - Fair enough! But your quote makes sense and I fully agree with it. Jon Another Wright quote (from a lecture to the Chicago DAR in 1904) reveals the poetic passion of his POV ....... "If you would see how interwoven it is in the warp and woof of civilization ... go at night-fall to the top of one of the down-town steel giants and you may see how in the image of material man, at once his glory and his menace, is this thing we call a city. There beneath you is the monster, stretching acre upon acre into the far distance. High over head hangs the stagnant pall of its fetid breath, reddened with light from myriad eyes endlessly, everywhere blinking. Thousands of acres of cellular tissue, the city’s flesh outspreads layer upon layer, enmeshed by an intricate network of veins and arteries radiating into the gloom, and in them, with muffled, persistent roar, circulating as the blood circulates in your veins, is the almost ceaseless beat of the activity to whose necessities it all conforms. The poisonous waste is drawn from the system of this gigantic creature by infinitely ramifying, thread-like ducts, gathering at their sensitive terminals matter destructive of its life, hurrying it to millions of small intestines to be collected in turn by larger, flowing to the great sewers, on to the drainage canal, and finally to the ocean."
Here is a pic from the Road Trip site that b-mak mentioned. It is the Palmer house in Ann Arbor, MI. May seem strange, but this one picture signifies why I love FLW so much. Same reason I was awe struck when I saw that documentary on Fallingwater many years ago. The ultra-modern (this house 1950) intersecting with/surrounded by nature is something that I just can't get enough of for some reason. http://www.peterbeers.net/interests/flw_rt/Michigan/Palmer_House/palmer_house.htm Image Unavailable, Please Login
Jon - some great FLW quotes here: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/1469/flwquote.html - including the one I love so much about being a poet.
Cool quote collection Joe. This is my favorite ! On Marilyn Monroe: "I think Ms. Monroe's architecture is extremely good architecture" ;
b-mak - there's a lot of great information on this site! I real;ly appreciate all the less known Usonian houses. Thanks for sharing. Jon Melvin Maxwell Smith House (below) Great horizontal lines. Sits beautifully between the trees and into the hill! Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Aye Joe - I almost mentioned it! Yuck... On a better note. Here's the Hanna House built by Stanford Professors and now owned by the University. Jon Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Nice Wright pics, Jon. There's only one built verified Wright-original house here in Dallas, and it's from his very late period...mid-50's. Around the same time, FLW designed a Dallas house for luxury-store (Neiman-Marcus) magnate Stanley Marcus, with the only bedrooms being screened-in porches oriented to prevailing breezes. The story goes that Wright refused to change his design to incorporate regular bedrooms, so Marcus fired him, shelved the plans, and sought a local architect to come up with another house design. The architect he chose, Howard Meier, was a talented modernist, and his houses are sought-after now and sympathetically restored by appreciative new owners.
