Why Frank Lloyd Wright Is America's Best Architect

Para el resto de las Américas seria, FLLW EL HOMBRE QUE CONSTRUYO USA o ESTADOS UNIDOS.

Thank you for this documentary!

Nope. John Lautner. It did not take long for the student to surpass the master.

I am not sure there is a single "best ever" American architect. He is one of them, to be sure, but not the only one. I personally do not like the Guggenheim Museum. Every picture displayed there looks like it is hung crocked because the floor is angled away from it. There are several other superb American architects, e.g. Richard Neutra.

Had the pleasure of visiting Fallingwater last Summer. It is absolutely breathtaking. Built in 1935 and still looks modern in 2024. Timeless classic. Wright was way ahead of his time.

His work was unsatisfactory to put it mildly.

How I would’ve loved to meet Wright.
What a fascinating person he was.
The houses he did impress me the most.
All of them are so beautiful and outstanding works of art.
I particularly love the glass designs and furniture he did. Most of the homes had their own unique style of furniture.

If you visit Oregon, definitely go on a tour of the Gordon House at the Oregon Garden.
It’s a Usonian designed in 1956 and is one of four homes Wright built here in the Pacific Northwest and the only one open to the public.
The house was moved from its original location and reassembled piece by piece at the garden.

Really enjoyed this program. Thank you 😊

It's a matter of FAITH friends, God decided for human specie to have the sense of beauty, to be creative and seek for the perfect happiness, for having engineering skills and create the best environment to live in, we just have to follow the pure... human nature. Some genius minds instead show us the way and learning from such genius architects is never enough. Looking back in time we understand how much gifted architects already changed the world and we still have to do more. We can invert modern architectures to green lungs, to eat pollution and release oxygen and that's the biggest challenge of our times, the environmental revolution we need the most, living in perfect harmony with the Holy Creation

As a small child in 1960 I saw a black and white photo of Fallingwater in a magazine in England. It stuck in my head for some reason. It took me nearly fifty years to visit, and when I did I realized even a child could see it's simply a perfect place and unforgettably beautiful.

I find most of his buildings ugly and repellent

Great documentary but he is not the greatest american arcthitect.

Several points: 1. Frank Lloyd Wright and Georgia O'Keeffe were from rural Wisconsin, and from their beginnings, art flowed from their beings. Yet, no book has ever been written about their similarities. 2. Louie Sullivan hired Wright in Chicago and was famous for the principle "Form follows function." Later, Wright said form and function were the same. 3. Wright and Ernest Hemingway lived in Oak Park at the same time. Yet, no book was ever been written about their common rejection of the city. Hemingway referred to Oak Park as a city of wide avenues and narrow minds. Wright would agree. 4. Last, I took high school students to Chicago and Oak Park to see architecture and there was not a single student who stood in awe. It takes maturity to create a love and reverence for architecture.

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As a student of architecture 50 years ago, I spent a summer at Fallingwater. not long enough. Thanks for a great study /refection of Frank Lloyd Wright

Guggenheim looks like a parking garage in Los Angeles. which came first?

Aztec, mixed with churches. Aztec outside, church inside.

I have been fascinated by architecture and architects for most of my 74 years. My grandfather, Dr. Kurt Meyer Radon, was a prominent architect, first in Germany, before and after WWI and then in Southern California. He knew Wright, along with Neutra, Schindler and Jock Peters. I read many books about Wright, and was particularly taken with a black-and-white photo book of Fallingwater, including scenes from the construction, released in the 1960s. I finally made my pilgrimages to both Taliesin Wisconsin and Fallingwater. We walked down the road from the visitors center, then, suddenly, through the trees, there it was. I first noticed the color- you have to see it with your own eyeballs. No photograph captures it. Second, it seemed smaller than I had pictured it. Third, I "got" the industrial red color of the windows and door frames. The oddest thing was the parapet walls around the cantilevered terraces. The terrance look robust and thick on the outside, but, when you are standing on them, the parapet walls are only about 2' high and rounded on the top. Absolutely terrifying! No way you could sit on the edge and look down at the stream. This is not a house for children.

He built homes for the rich. Now what?

Pyro

In all these documentaries about Frank Lloyd Wright, I’ve never seen Price Tower in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Price Tower was one of two vertical structures Wright designed. Price Tower is gorgeous and deserves a place in these documentaries more than a brief flash of narrative.

The canal is called The American story, video is called Why Frank Lloyd Wright Is America's Best Architect. And the narrator is from Welsh, like wtf

But did he ever build a house that didn't leak?

It’s not house’s he build, but palace

Up there with the world’s best imo.

It hardly touches on the houses that he made.

I honestly never knew the whole history of this man. I just knew when I came across his work in Ohio that it was different. Then I came across a book that had different buildings and homes.
It's amazing how certain things just stand out and then come to find out it's famously well known to others. That's the beauty in art. It will stand out all on its own without any words being said.❤

Who is the best architect ? In reality , nobody knows him

It's amazing that there are so many incredible houses that deserve an hour or two just on their own that they didn't even have time to mention. But does anybody actually like Taliesin West?

I've stayed at the park Inn Mason city, Iowa, the last remaining Frank Lloyd Wright designed hotel. Wonderful structure. The rooms themselves are modern, with the exception of one that they kept true to its original. And the Stockman house just down the street from the hotel is also worth seeing. And the entire neighborhood that was designed and built by Wright's students and studies. Magnificent. Again, that was Mason City, Iowa.

Interesting stuff

If I could pick one house as my own,it would be "Falling Water". Breathtaking,Beautiful,A Marvelous Feat of Nature Working With Man.

beautiful documentary

Gugenheim is the most ugly architecture he ever did.

Unity Temple, from 1905, is a life-changing structure. Fallingwater is a cantilevered masterpiece.

His roofs notoriously leak, his buildings are often not very functional having more building to look at than buildings for what they were supposed to be for. His ideological stands overrode a more rational and realistic basis of drawing plans. An architect who is famous for those things isn't a great architect.

FLLW DID NEVER BUILD ANY BUILDINGS, WHICH IGNORENT SPEAKERS OFTEN CALAIM.
HE VISIONED HOW BUILDINGS COULD BE BUILT & DID DRAWINGS, WHICH CONTRACTERS, SITE SUPERINTENDENTS & CRAFTSMEN USED TO BUILD FROM.
I DOUBT FRANK EVER PUT ONE NAIL OR SCREW OR BRICK INTO ANY OF THE BUILDINGS HE DESIGNED.
THAT'S THE TRUTH

24TH OF SEP 2024

PS. WE ARE NOT TOO MANY WHO CAN BOTH DESIGN, DO DRAWINGS AND SWING A HAMMER, BUT I WAS ONE

The Robie House :
Frank could not design & calculate the required members of that long "Overhang", which he suggested being in WOODEN MEMBERS.
Had "Wes", William Wesley Peters (1912-1991) not had his MIT Engineering know-how of two years before he in 1932 became the very first pupil at Taliesen, there would never be such cantilevered roof.

This was not the first & last time "Wes" saved the bacon of the visionery FLLW's designs.
Frank could not calculate such complex structures, as he never graduated from his Engineering school in Wisconsin, but left months before graduation.
Still has none published Frank's grades from there.
Many men goto Engineering educations, but 50 % fail to graduate incl the subject "Mathematics" & "Structural Design", which even was the bitter result for 1/2 the class in my education 1965 - 68, when in High School Engineering.

When at Lund University, again 1/2 of the enrolled students (all men) did not graduate, as if you fail "Math", which is the central subject in "Applied Engineering", you will never get your MSc Diploma and not be employed as an MSc.

Q: Who will hire an Engineer, who flunks his primary subject ?

That no one in america copies at all. You can tell that he is studied engineering in school because he spends a ton of time on building orientation and fitting windows into light which is fenestration. and then he also can read the site plans well and orients the house or building to the specific lot. People used to do that on just ordinary houses. as builders we used to walk the lot and pick what trees to keep. Spend time picking a plan and orienting it to the lot. Now it's massive subdivision where they clear everything like an airport and all of the plans and everything are selected and not changing. That and they also have HOA's where people who know nothing put in their five cents on crap.

I worked for a very large united states builder doing energy star inspections, and they had a problem with one of the furnaces being placed in the garage of a townhouse and it wasn't going to work because it was outside of the space, and it was the type of furnace made to not be airtight and inside the home. I told the dude that you have to talk to the architect or something about this, and i told them they put sealed units in the attic, and they did that. I don't even think they have architects on staff or working for them. Then they changed it back and the guys above me cheated for them, and signed off on it. As long as I didn't get in trouble for fraud on government rebates. They don't care because it's all lawyers and no technical people running the construction companies. But at the same time that's ethics and not just liability. It's tort law and it's beyond the scope of their legal practice.

Franks buildings only last 30 years, before they need millions in repairs.

The Unitarian church, dissolved in the 1960's, and some of the last hold out churches, held on until 1976. The merger with the Universalists, when they because UU's, that the religion was lost, in a muddy mix of two former religions, and no longer having any beliefs. Eventually, the UU's, usurped the Unitarian name, and called themselves Unitarians, and no longer UU's. But, today, it would be difficult for anyone to guess was Unitarians believed in the 60's. It was a mix of Jewish (belief in god, without the trinity), and a somewhat strong belief in god.

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Fantastic!!!

Ok Donny, let's get you changed into your nappy time diaper and off to bed old fella.
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HE DESING THE SKY KEAPER NEVER WAS BUILD IN AMERICA USS IT WAS DRAWING BY HEAN FOR A FEUTURE STRUCTURE IT WASBUILD IN ABBUDABBI LLOK AT THE FLOOR PLANS AND YOU WILL SEE THE SEMILITUD OF THE FLOOR PLANS

Thanks sir for this wonderfull documentary about him 🤩🤩🤩

As a big FLLW fan, this is by far the best, most amazing documentary about him.

John Lautner was better sorry, but Franky was dam fine.