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This was a fascinating insight into Sir Christopher Wren. I have been to St Paul's Cathedral and was in awe at the grandeur and exceptional quality of the structure. For me it's beyond words to describe it. As an aside, if we are to interpret the quote at the end by Heinlein literally then all people in the present day are insects. But, I can't and won't interpret Heinlein's quote literally. This quote may be and probably is taken out of context and I would be more interested to know the context in which that quote was made. No one can be so versatile to be able to do all of those a human neing should be able to do as stated in the quote. Many people were highly competent in multiple areas in the past, but even then I think they were still the exception as opposed to the rule.

I did no expect you to create an entire Dr Seuss style children's book to explain the design of his namesake library, but I was entertained and appreciate a surely time intensive creation of the parody book complete with illustrations!

On our way to visit for our 3rd time over the past decade or so. Thank you so much for this great video and history👍

I like your take on this. Also I really like working with Smith Group as they are a firm that always subordinates the egos to the owner’s vision.

Bro. Your subtle humor is exquisite

Hilarious

I do not like his books, and I do not like his buildings.

You should do the Salk Institute by Kahn. I love your channel. Keep up the good work!

Great video - I appreciated your inclusion of facts not provided in the book I have which covers Gehry's work

Kudos to their attempt to create a hotel but…it’s an inferior hotel. My guess is that originally it was an interesting but functionally compromised terminal.

One of your best reports...🙂it takes someone with "stones" to throw them when necessary.

Your opening contextual portion was awesome!

I love Assisi.

One of my top 10 gave buildings.

I love the Aqua tower.

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Do they allow queer weddings?

Excellent research and presentation. Is it the Einstein Tower of our time or is it just another Brown Derby? Like most of the “iconic”things in LA, it is meaningless.

could have done without the snide remark about our food, thanks. The 'british people eat bland food' thing is something of a cliche and a canard. What is considered our national dish is a curry for god's sake. But you carry on with your lazy prejudices my dude, as you go outside and dodge mass shooters and cowboys and go to eat a hamburger (how are hamburgers not bland? they are pretty much the blandest food going) I hate this American ha ha british food is bad rubbish, When I was in America I could barely eat the food it was so full of sugar,. So like yeah...People who say stuff like this generally make me turn off right away..I prefer videos where the person doesn't make snide remarks about my country thanks

Wow that sales force bit was great 😂🍆

Your point of view is valid of course, but it is based on a benign outlook of the future of civilization based on its present trajectory and on the present capabilities of AI. Both of these underpinning assumptions are changing and will change as we are seeing a global system that was created after WWII to prevent and mitigate Global War that is in the midst of failing and AI is still only in its nascence with indications that it is already capable of autonomous reasoning and sentient reactionary perspectives. So, we'll see what the future really holds for the tech. I am not as optimistic as you. By the way, you can already get yourself a Jetpack, but it is not mass marketed because there is no money to be made from it in a mass market.

Gehry ends in “Why?”

My initial response before watching this video? No. Just like AI generators can't figure out how many fingers a hand has, they won't be able to navigate the intricacies of even residential design. Sure, it might give the impression of it... and maybe the hand will have the right amount of fingers. I guess one could gamble that generated output will be acceptable for a building, but it's unlikely. At the VERY least, the generated stuff will need to be supervised, vetted, and revised... which gets us back to square one, anyways. Edit: I do use AI to help me quickly navigate to a code section, but its interpretations get really crazy. I can still gaslight GPT4.0 into believing that absolutely incorrect math is an acceptable output.

Great video - I think you often mean “consequently” instead of “subsequently”

Nice presentation, thank you. Not finding the Scheider House, do you mean Schneider? Additionally, find no video on your channel for the Kentucky Knob, more problematic, #50 is on a different Frank Lloyd Wright design. Hope this helps. Cheers, Adriel

I have been there. What a beautiful place. I used to know a doctor who bought one of their personal houses. He had it completely taken apart, put in new electrical, plumbing and insulation and then had them put it back just as it was when taken apart. It was an unreally beautiful house. You could not tell it had been taken apart.

well dwsigned

Neither cheap nor easy.

Gehry’s design for Case Western ignored the Cleveland climate and sheets of ice fall from the metal roof at great peril to pedestrians. Apparently he thought the project was in LA!

As always, your final comment is EVERYTHING. What are you currently working on, BTW? One of my faves of your catalog is when you presented some of your own projects, would love to view more? Thanks again for what you do!

Well said ... and for me an up-close street level visit with the brick base is a disappointment. Luckily the scale affords distant views whether taken by still camera or video, or for that matter the human eye, that almost guarantee the covering up of the brick annex.

Thank you, great video, love it!

Society has forgotten the intrinsic value of living with good design❤thank you for a beautiful reminder

Incorrect! that is the most historically false statement in the history of history. Islam has always allowed religious freedom and guarantees their safty. The Muslim world was Sanctuary for Jewish people for 1,400 years. The West in 15,000's was in meddle of the reforrmation. Catholics & Protestants were a at war

I grew up in the area and have been inside the beautiful Bahai Temple several times. It always impresses everyone as a landmark.

It seems the above mentioned temple (which I have visited and was impressed with) is a 8-sided structure as were the 8-legged spidery sculptures that stood in Rockefeller Center (which I have visited and was creeped out by). Unless somewhere along the way I had forgotten that the temple and spidery sculptures were by the same architect/sculptor I have continually been under the impression that the sculptor who did the spiders was a woman and never made the connection, until now, that the 2 disparate works were by the same individual.

Personally the capital needed a bit of monumentalism and modernity and I am glad they were built, even as a large sterile complex straight out of Star Wars as it was so well put. Are they out of place? Of course but that was the point... The rest of the city can remain historic and quaint but a capital city of this supposed importance needs to look the part. Same thing happened in Edmonton when they decided to turn 108 Street into a monumental axis... All the small-scale buildings and boulevard trees were replaced by sterile modernist architecture and blank plazas, though not to any real negative degree. The goal was visibility of "The Dome" along major corridors and it works...

I am from Buffalo NY and I have been in the 2 Wright homes there.I now live in FL I have been to the FL Southern College in Lakeland FL and to the Guggenheim in NY all a must see

Very informative. I'm satisfied with my mid-century small ranch house - somewhere between brute socialist apartment blocks and homes that require 40 acres of manicured grounds.

Would never vote for the guy for president but as a Chicagoan I still love the building. Just an additional piece to the landscape.

This video brought me back to my early memories as a child.... the feeling that there were very substantial men doing very substantial and historic things. The world felt so "solid" and "permanent" back then.... of stone, glass and heavy beams. God bless FLW.

I dont understand how you don't have more followers yet! Awesome videos!

Check out The Oude Kerk ( Old Church) in Ámsterdam. It leans 2 meters from the vertical.

Wright and the other architects who designed “less than comfortable” chairs should have taken a road trip to Sam Maloof’s workshop and home. The Maloof rockers were designed originally for nursing mothers, so you can bet they were comfortable. I’ve wondered what Wright would have thought of Maloof’s home, hand-built by Sam primarily of wood right down to the door latches. My Frank Lloyd Wright book collection (more of an accumulation, actually) sits next to my single Sam Maloof book. I almost hate to pull them off the shelf because a quick review of a particular item invariably becomes an hours-long page turner.

"Experience is the thing you get right after you needed it." AKA: Hindsight is 2020. 🙂

"The columns from the outside and the ceiling you see from the inside is the structure, and not some decorative element. Beauty is not attached to it. The building is about Truth; the response to the immutable forces of gravity and from that Truth, Beauty is derived." I love this quote! I'm glad my architecture tutors dragged us out to see this building when we were in Rome. This brings back good memories!

È il central Park Tower è piu alto del Burj Khalifa, ora è Central Park Tower edificio più alto del mondo informati

Sei proprio cattivo, nel 2023 sono venuta a New York e con amico agente immobiliare ho visitato il Central Park Tower e penthouse 250 milioni di dollari, ha il terrazzo più bello e più alto dell osservatorio, è un capolavoro certo voi americani la classe e l' eleganza non la conoscete infatti seguite i Kardashian come fate a capire la bellezza della Central Park Tower?😅😅😅

SO true, true, a million times true. So great to hear this and see it in print. It is about time that this functionless art which is also formless is denounced for what it is: a vapid and meaningless, soon to be relegated to the dustbin of history, expression of personal ego, societal prejudices and quest for 15 minutes of fame and money. Kudos to you!

I was not prepared to love this building as much as I do. The sweep of the nave is remarkable. The image of Mary over the front door is stunning. The tapestries stand on their own.