Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater

[toobfreak]

His budget was $20,000.

Irrelevant. The man was an artist who painted with brick and stone and glass. He followed his inspiration.

 

[JGalt]

Why is it famous?
His name.

Nobody wants to live there, even the family that built it used it as a getaway.

Wright lived in the small town I live in. He was notorious for skipping out on paying his bills.

There's a warehouse in the middle of town, that he designed. It's a big, ugly, hulking monstrosity that keeps falling apart and its a Mecca for the local liberals. They're always having fund drives to renovate the building, and have sunk millions of dollars into it over the years.

The local liberals worship him as a cult hero for some reason.

Is it wrong to think Frank Lloyd wasn’t right?

 

[Weatherman2020]

Irrelevant. The man was an artist who painted with brick and stone and glass. He followed his inspiration.

Well, so was Picasso, but he produced crap too.

 

[toobfreak]

Well, so was Picasso, but he produced crap too.

I understand. As a potential architect, you have your tastes just as the person who designed this building---

might not care for this style.

But that doesn't make either one right or wrong. Buildings are like food appealing to different tastes.

I'm just pointing out that your chief complaints about Fallingwater, its location and colors are not valid ones as the colors are chosen to synergize with the location as well as the location was chosen to utilize natural cooling and ventilation in what is a very humid location in the summer.