Frank Lloyd Wright

Photo: Charles “Al” Gunther, Professor Bill Oglesby, Frank Lloyd Wright, Joe Perkins, Bob Hendricks, Dick Thomas, Takeo Ito, and School of Architecture Chairman Bruce Goff, April 15, 1958. Photo by Jerri Bonebrake. Western History Collection, University of Oklahoma Libraries

[@owenwilberforce6138]

I have always admired the great sacredness of the interiors of Wright’s buildings. He seemed to build his buildings from the internal experience of the occupant outward. Rather than simply seeing the house a structure satisfying a basic need to have basic rooms to shelter, he imagined the experience of dwelling in that shelter, and built an inspiring experience, taking into account what it felt like to really live there. His taste was to celebrate open views, natural light, and a poetic sense of forms and geometry. The sacredness of his work means they hold up well more as temples to our human potential rather than merely boxes to shelter people and things.

[@pikespeak361]

If you look at the Babylo-Celtic-Nahuatl-Shinto cultures infused in every cranny of these temples of doom, you start to realize that these are not experiences from within but experiences of death and afterlife of these different cultures; all flailing in a tumultuous vortex of energies that drive people mad and kill and possess...Frank was the ultimate architectural mad scientist...Fauci would be impressed if he knew what Frank was doing meta- physically to his patrons...

[@ryanburdeaux]

Well said

[@fosacl1776]

Inside out; ya , his interior has that timeless ambiance

[@chrisgosselin6468]

Love to hear Wright speaking

[@TheGazaMethodChannel]

The best summary I could give is Frank Lloyd Wright is trying to encourage this group in the pursuit of beauty and charm. To not fall victim to the box. Which is to limit yourself. He’s no perfect man. But man is a fallen creature. He basically is telling them to pursue heaven in the earthly life, in my opinion.

[@jimg20aia]

This address was delivered in 1952 in the Oklahoma Memorial Union.

[@MrDzdevil]

Such a profound message if only someone could take it and alchemize it into action.

[@davyroger3773]

Wright sure liked to preach

[@johnbrower524]

Was this 1952 or 1958? My ex father in Law was at this lecture. He was studying with Bruce Goff at the time.

[@MrFirdyboy]

Thanks

[@ryanburdeaux]

What did he say at the very end? Always ask “why?”

[@williamflamenco5059]

Yup

[@jameshardin4895]

yeah... Frank boy was about money too... he wouldn't finish a $5000 house for Americans... Sabotaged it...

[@pikespeak361]

Frank did more than sabotage....these things were ovens💀

[@ronniedelahoussayechauvin6717]

Corruption

[@enblanchard5492]

Useless rhetoric.

[@scottbaxendale323]

FLW was a terrible human being, who was complicit in the Tulsa massacre.

[@ryanburdeaux]

not true

[@marylusk9460]

One only sees what what one is.

[@ryanburdeaux]

@@marylusk9460 do you know something others dont know.

[@anthonythompson9741]

Scott Baxendale = ignoramus. Wright accepted apprentices of every race, ethnicity and religious background. Not a racist bone in his body.

[@spactick]

@@marylusk9460 Shakespeare said "we are what we see", and I think he'd agree with what you said