Why Frank Lloyd Wright Is America's Best Architect | The Man Who Built America | The American Story
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- Опубликовано: 7 июл 2023
- Frank Lloyd Wright is one of the most revered architects in the world. Responsible for such masterpieces as Fallingwater and The Guggenheim Museum, architect Jonathan Adams travels around the US to see these works for himself.
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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.
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.
I love all of Frank Lloyd Wrights homes and other buildings. God bless him
Thank you, this is one of the best summaries of his work I’ve ever seen.
Thank you for this documentary!
I adore Frank Lloyd Wright, his energy, and his architectural successes. Influenced by Sullivan, a relative through my GGrandmother.
I share Wright's Basque Welsh blood, through my Basque Irish lineage.
🔑 41:50 What h8s statement further expresses to me: (Time to embrace our place in the whole, with Harmony.)
Superbly made documentary. Completely absorbing.
That's great story telling ...thanks alot for this ..
Fabulous homage to the genius of the mensch and his legacy
Really enjoyed this program. Thank you 😊
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.
Excellent. Enjoyed every minute.
What a wonderful documentary. Beautiful video and thoughtful commentary. Thank you--I enjoyed every minute.
That was great. Thank you for a Welsh angle here and there.
This is excellent! Thank you so much for this incredible production. It is a priceless contribution to continue sharing the brilliant contributions of this great genius.
Glad you enjoyed it!
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Are you aware if he ever made peace with his first wife or the six children that Wright abandoned?
Well done! Excellent storytelling.
Thanks for watching
Thank you.
Superb documentary. 👏🏼👍🏼
On a personal and subjective note, I think the destruction of Taliesin, and the killing of FLW's wife and children, meet all the requirements to make you think it was a plot. It was ordered. It's so clear and so weird that nobody wanted to talk about it in depth, and I don't think it will ever distracts or interferes at all from FLW's legacy as an Architect. Some day the true story of this horrifying episode will come out.
Excellent !!!!!
The life of an architecture rock star!
Architecture would be better today if more people followed FLW path instead of the current academic disaster. Frank Wright, Frank Gehry, Tadao Ando, and many more greats never met "licensing" requirements.
A great designer should approach the industry like a Writer, and the role of an Architect(or better, Civil Eng) is like an Editor/ publisher. To hire an Architect for stamping is FAR more cost effective of the time and cost of a degree. If you REALLY *want* a degree, Construction Management is far more useful.
Awesome read u might like is "A Place of my own" by Michael Pollan - it's a really great read about this more historical and philosophical approach to practical architecture 👌🏻
FLLW was a man of the future and proponent of ergonomics.
interior sacrators rimes with inter designers...lol... The BMW Museum in Munich, next to its Factory, also has this Rotunda Guggenheim ...Vatican or FLW-inspired Rotunda that spirils 6 stories upwards..
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
Did you call that Oak Park mansion a small cottage?
🔑 41:50 What h8s statement further expresses to me: (Time to embrace our place in the whole, with Harmony.)
Wonderful documentary. Unfortunately commercials are obnoxious and ruin the whole thing.
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Notice the marker at the end of the film: Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959. This is not true! He was born in 1867. He lied about his age! In 1959, when he died, he was almost 92 years old. Not 90, as the marker says.
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@@torbenretboll2841 only 2 years differnt
@ImranIshak-qg8hy he lied about his age, because he wanted to be younger than he was.
Only two years, you say. Yes. A small lie. But it was a lie. A sign of vanity.
If he had claimed to be ten years younger than he was, it would have been a big lie.
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-- de la rigueur totalitaire à la liberté des formes de l'architecture de FLW; un beau voyage,
-- from the totalitarian rigor to the freedom of forms of FLW architecture; a beautiful trip,
Para el resto de las Américas seria, FLLW EL HOMBRE QUE CONSTRUYO USA o ESTADOS UNIDOS.
His work was unsatisfactory to put it mildly.
That's your opinion, and it's wrong, but you can just sit away from everyone else.
Nope. John Lautner. It did not take long for the student to surpass the master.
Frank Lloyd Wright wanted to build houses .without walls and without doors. He wanted to have a grand open space.
What can we see in this film? We see a large dining room and a large living room. A grand open space.
What is not seen? What is not shown? We never see a bedroom, never see a room for children, never see a kitchen, never see a bathroom. Why not?
When Frank Lloyd Wright designed a kitchen, it was small and traditional.
When Frank Lloyd Wright designed a bathroom, it was small and traditional.
He did not understand the need for a large kitchen. He did not understand the need for a large bathroom.
In some ways he was ahead of his time. In other ways he was a product of the time in which he lived. Very traditional. Not able to break out of the traditional box.
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.
What’s with draping the flag over Wright? I have nothing against the flag except it’s excessive and unthinking use. And as a design element, Wright would not have approved.
And, “The Man Who Built America,” is a silly title. FLW’s influence on architecture is enormous. He was a true genius. But the vast majority of building in the United States involves nothing of genius. Wright’s designs, even from nearly a century ago, still look radical in comparison to most building in the US being done more than a half century after Wright’s death. It would be a more beautiful country if Wright “built America,” but he didn’t.
FLW’s creations are goofy eyesores. The Guggenheim is a contest for the most absurd. America’s Best Architect was his mentor: Louis Sullivan. Forever!
Derp?
Opinion. Been to any of them?
I find most of his buildings ugly and repellent
Great documentary but he is not the greatest american arcthitect.