Hey Stewart; I believe you underestimate your skills. While this guy did a great job( my hats off to him here), I think you do an equally good job with your vids as well.
something rarely mentioned when talking about architects is that unless they come from well off families its really difficult to do what Lloyd has done.
Hardly mentioned was Wright's greatest achievement: the Taliesin Fellowship, which until 2020, evolved and existed at Taliesin and Taliesin West as The School of Architecture (@tsoa). This radically experimental (and yet, fully accredited) School of Architecture requires students to build their own dwellings in the desert and live in them in order to earn their Masters degree in Architecture. Until the School was kicked out of Taliesin, it was the living embodiment of Wright's organic principles in which the Architecture, its End Users, and Nature (with a capital 'N') coexist in harmony.
I studied architecture in college for 8 years. Frank was the best architect that has ever lived. Absolute genius who was really in touch with art and nature. No one else compares to Frank. He was way ahead of his time. Absolutely spiritual and unique. No one will ever be better at architecture- ever! Thank you Frank for all of your beautiful work. It is an inspiration and a blessing to all!
Wright's work is worth studying, Wright's life is not. The deeper you dive into the details of his life, the more sordid it becomes. It's best to ignore as much of his personal story as possible and stick to his work.
you have not read very much written by people who were close to him if you think his entire personal life was reprehensible. He was not perfect, certainly, but most people who dealt with him personally or professionally were fond of him. That's never true of genuinely bad people.
@@myotherusername9224 Have you read, "The Fellowship"? It is a book on Wright that uses information about him that was taken from interviews, and from documents by people who knew him personally. It is probably the most footnoted book I've ever read, and I've read my share of technical books. Read it, I think you may change your mind a bit. And don't misconstrue what I wrote, I never said that everything he did was morally reprehensible. Nobody can survive, let alone succeed in society, if they were completely bad.
@@deezynar thank you for the reference. I haven't read _The Fellowship_, and as I read my comment, I realize I wasn't completely confident in what I was saying. I have read the positive reactions of various people but not deeply enough or widely enough. Must check it out.
FLW and one of his students, Paolo Soleri (Arcosanti, book "Arcology: City in the Image of Man") are the designers that inspired me to become an Architect.
Out here in Maricopa County Arizona, the older locals say that Frank Lloyd Wright was testifying at a lawsuit trial in downtown Phoenix and one attorney asked him if he was the Greatest Architect in the World to which he replied "Yes." It was a long drive back to his Scottsdale home and, by the time he arrived there, his wife had heard some drive time radio disk jockeys joking about his testimony on the air. When confronted my Mrs. Wright about his blatant show of arrogance, Mr. Wright replied, "Sweetheart, I was under oath."
@@oldarpanet He also said , in choosing between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility, he chose the former. When once asked if he agreed with the characterization of being the greatest architect in the United States , he responded by saying that he might quibble with the limitation.
Great video! Just wanted to say that according to a couple of books I have read, he started the fire before he killed anyone, so that anyone who survived and tried to run out of the house, would then be met with fire. I say that, because I believe at least one of Mameh’s children died from the fire, even though they were all physically attacked.
Very good story telling en information in your video, thanks a lot! I'm doing a video on Dutch architect Berlage next week ('father' of Dutch modern architecture). This helped me so much to understand the influence of Wright (and Sullivan), super
Funny how self-confidence is always interpreted as conceit and arrogance... mediocrity, like misery, loves company. Some of the most intelligent people I have ever met in 55 years are Architects, and I'm proud to be in the industry myself.
Don’t you realise the smartest people you’ve met are architects because that’s what your are and that’s who you interact with? Like a physicist would say the smartest people they’ve met are physicists? That’s your bubble, stop judging from where you stand and observe the entire picture, it’s a shame you can’t see beyond your foolish eyeballs… that’s why you’re fooled by modernists, their ideas and their arrogance. What’s up with dumb people thinking they can judge who is smart and who is not btw?
Watching this a year after it was made… amazing video! I would’ve expected you to have like a 100k subs if you’d have continued with RUclips. Please do
Wow-in 11 minutes and 35 seconds; who can learn more about FLW's best projects? Well done! It would interest me to see FLW's unbuilt projects. The 'Illinois' Mile high building design is his last awesome and awe inspiring work. You've made such a nice tribute here so thanks for sharing!
Growing up in the west suburbs of Chicago it was great to see so many of his houses. It is unfortunate though that many have been remodeled because they weren't proven to be a Frank Lloyd Wright house soon enough only to find out later that the address was indeed a house he built.
I can't remember the name of if, but there is a car museum in Buffalo that has and FLW filling station inside. The design be was simple, elegant and functional. The man was a creative genius, to make something as mundane as a gas station with such striking presence. He really thought about the world around him. The Buffalo area has some great Wright properties. I wish the summer lakefront home of the Martins was further along in it's restoration when we were there. If you get out that way, don't miss the Roycroft Inn, a masterpiece of craftsman style architecture.
You know Marty there has never been a genius in the field of Architecture, thats never . It is the mother of all the arts but I guess FLW would have to be considered the first.
I would like to read a description of his work that proves his genius, and shows why he was unique. Id also like to know how anyone can start from where we are here and continue to develop his and similar ideas. Modern architecture has produced nothing as beautiful as Fallingwater, the Usonians, The Prairie homes. The Guggenheim. That's because the thought process these days is trivial, where Wright was a deep thinker.
As a practicing Architect for 20 years who (obviously!) studied Wright in school, I must say this video was very well researched and presented. Thank you!
Lovely video, One thing I would love to know, how did the tragedy affect his work afterwards. You mentioned the event shaped his life, if you can tell me more about it, I'd highly appreciate it D:
After the death of Mamah Wright built the textile block houses in the Los Angeles area. These are often compared to Aztec or Mayan tombs etc.and the houses have definite tomb like feeling to them. The Millard house (La Miniatura) in Pasadena is built into a culvert on the side of the property leaving the upper flat area for a lawn. They are fascinating homes really. There's a great video on youtube where they explore that these houses were a form of healing for FLW as he did them and they were not successful as homes, and he never returned to the style.
@@jasonschmitt1600 Appreciate the update :D any chance you can link me the video of the houses and how there were his healing process. Much appreciated
He threw himself into work on the Imperial Hotel. " in action, there is relief from anguish of mind"- FLlW His LA block houses were very. .. massive and closed off, like protective caves. One of his apprentices had a roll over accident (alone) driving Wright's limousine, and Wright designed and built a new roof for the car. Someone questioned why it had no rear window. Wright replied: "I never look behind me."
No doubt he was a guineas . One of a kind. Never will be a architect of great talent, God send to America, falling waters for ever. My true American hero. God. Bless him.
I frequent Crystal Bridges in Bentonville, Arkansas. It features the Bachman-Wilson House originally built and designed by the legendary Frank Lloyd Wright in Millstone, New Jersey for of course Abraham Wilson and Gloria Bachman in 1954. It was then acquired by Crystal Bridges in 2013 who carefully deconstructed the house and shipped it there to northwest Arkansas. The reconstruction was meticulously put back together piece by piece. It was finished and opened to the public in 2015.
Yes, he was a brilliant architect, but an absolutely MISSERABLE human being. My mother-in-law HATED him, he would come into the restaurant she worked at in Spring Green (WI), she would tell how rude & arrogant he was, & if he did leave a tip, it'd be a measly pocket change, like 'why even bother'... It was widely known that he didn't pay his bills, so the only way he was allowed to have a phone at Talliheson was if it was a pay phone... In one of the houses he designed, the only thing he'd allow them to put on the walls was a picture of HIM, he went to visit the owners after they'd settled in, and after they went to bed, he went around taking down everything that THEY had put up, in the house that THEY had paid for... In another house, he even designed clothes for them to wear in the house, pretty much like uniforms, in THEIR OWN HOUSE... There are many stories about his personality, & being very full of himself... Yes, he was a brilliant architect, but absolutely MISERABLE human being.
There is no question in my mind that FLW was a brilliant architect, degree or no. That said, he absolutely was not an engineer as evidenced by his “vertical fireplace” in Wingspread. Wish I had been there for the one and only lighting of it 😛.
It's almost impossible to imagine, but those amazing Oak Park era prairie homes predated the Model T, so 99% of the traffic passing them on the streets when they were first built was primarily horse and buggy.
Did he do all calculations and reinforcement designs...by himself? Or he just had these ideas in his head and someone else had to prove it will stand still?
I know ur loved. U have got the power to be rich. Important man u will always be. Just dont be too big 4 ur own GOOD. Looks like ur great to to everyone.
he sounds like a very dishonorable man. from screwing his employer out of his share of comissions for the work that should have gone through the firm, to having affairs all over the place. Not good.
how in the world did he talk his boss into loaning him that kind of money? it would be several million in todays money- and all the expensive ornamentation! and six kids?? rock star money
A clarification should be made on Wrights formal education. Wright attended Madison High School, but there is no evidence that he graduated. In 1886 he was admitted to the University of Wisconsin-Madison as a special student and worked under Allan D. Conover, a professor of civil engineering, before leaving the school after one year without taking a degree.
I put out the hypothesis that Lloyd is overrated. I don't see how the prairie style is made out to be such a great invention. Ok yeah, it fits the the american landscape. ...any more depth in it than that? Secondly, it seems plain wrong to state that Lloyd "coined the term" form follows function. The term has a whole wiki article to it, look it up. Now, about his architecture in general, I think its representative of a kind of american feel, yes. But that in and of itself doesn't make it great architecture. For instance, his Maya inspired concrete patterns/bricks are plainly unauthentic. They are taken too far out of context, ripped out of one culture and implanted into the next, way into the life and environment of people who have no connection to it whatsoever. The result is that the architecture comes across fake, kinda disneylandish, inorganic. And why make a big deal about chairs that looke like spines from the back side? He cared about posture... aha... that's all? How is that in any way a genius idea with depth? Nothing but decoration - and "decoration" should be the number one disliked term for any desginer - especially if they respect the term "form follows function". And the fact that one of his buildings in Japan survived an earthquake is probably more thanks to structural engineers than to him. All in all, yes, Lloyd reflects the american spirit: shallowness.
@@shakey3306 Number of words does not equal depth of insight, and your comments prove that. you don't understand Wright, you twist the issues to attempt to make your points , and fail. Just one example: "I don't see how the prairie style is made out to be such a great invention. Ok yeah, it fits the the american landscape. ...any more depth in it than that?" wright didn't invent Prairie school, so criticising Wright for it is missing the mark; he was just very active in that style. There's much more to the Prairie houses of Wright than the horizontality that fits the landscape: open floor plan, natural materials, the use of light and ornament in the art glass, the repeated themes in the ornament and structure to create an harmonious composition, integration with nature, bringing the outside in; and a reinvention of the form: no longer a box of boxes but something integrated with the landscape and the neighborhood. His Prairie homes have many unique forms and features to take advantage of the site and integrate the form of the house with the lives and activities of the clients. All very innovative , if you compare those houses to what was building at the time. If you get a chance, visit the Martin house in Buffalo New York or any other of Wright's houses and compare them to what mainstream architects were building in the same neighborhood, it's night and day. There's no way an honest person could say those houses were 'shallow'. case in point: the Cheney house, with a walled terrace on the street side that provided privacy from the street but a connection to it visually . the lack of roof over that front sitting area kept the front rooms from being too dark. Search for images of the Wright Cheney house, I can't link here on YT. It's clear from your comments you have neither studied what Wright created, nor thought profitably about what little you do know .
There were 10 rolled up plans,blue prints in an umbrella holder in his office and interns drafting tables when he died. They were overlooked,but discovered they sold each for a cool million..Today they are like priceless. Adinosaur of modern architecture
As of lately, soon to be reintroduced here in Buffalo, that gas station at the very beginning of the video, though not sure if it'll be a full service station, or just a museum. Also, not many know that there was a FLW design that's a mausoleum, and that is the coolest design as well, here in Buffalo!
A fine, enjoyable introduction to and survey of Wright's work and life, with excellent photography and narration -skillfully done, though devoid of any critical perspectives.
I love this video. I wish you had left the murder of his family out. It makes the video not something I can use with my younger learners. It's a shame, otherwise I would have loved using as a teaching tool.
My dad was an architect and our home was strongly influenced with contemporary style of and designed afterThe Robey house with 3 ft overhangs of spacials on roof sophits
My dream is to drive in a Sprinter Van across the US and visit FLW's homes and buildings. I'm currently the Northeast US. When I was in Chicago I didn't get a chance to visit the FLW buildings. Bummer.
Your video-making and narrativizing skills are incredible. Congrats. I wish I had a fraction of your skills.
🙏🙏🙏
Wow ur vedios are great to
Hey Stewart; I believe you underestimate your skills. While this guy did a great job( my hats off to him here), I think you do an equally good job with your vids as well.
Stewart. Nah, your vids are great. No need for extra attempts at pizzaz. Many of us prefer no BS. There are enough adds out there for that.
@StewartHicks, I love watching your videos just the same!!! Discovering your channel helped me focus my own career and goals!!
What most people don't know is, he never graduated from the school of architecture. He left school and began working for Adler & Sullivan in Chicago.
@@roh_son Thank you for the correction.
And it feels.
🧠Geniuses don't have to graduate that are graduated, before and after they start of finish anything!
I drove over 6 hours to visit Falling Water. Totally worth it.
It's about a 6 hour drive from me, and I've always wanted to make the trip.
@@antoniosoul Do it! Make a weekend of it.
Hope i can afford to go there after this rona world outbreak ends
Flying across the country to see it in September ;) can't wait
Did you visit Kentuck Knob? That little masterpiece is considered by some Wright aficionados as being even better than the Kaufmann house.
something rarely mentioned when talking about architects is that unless they come from well off families its really difficult to do what Lloyd has done.
Connections and reputation. It helps to know the Wright people.
Hardly mentioned was Wright's greatest achievement: the Taliesin Fellowship, which until 2020, evolved and existed at Taliesin and Taliesin West as The School of Architecture (@tsoa). This radically experimental (and yet, fully accredited) School of Architecture requires students to build their own dwellings in the desert and live in them in order to earn their Masters degree in Architecture. Until the School was kicked out of Taliesin, it was the living embodiment of Wright's organic principles in which the Architecture, its End Users, and Nature (with a capital 'N') coexist in harmony.
I studied architecture in college for 8 years. Frank was the best architect that has ever lived. Absolute genius who was really in touch with art and nature. No one else compares to Frank. He was way ahead of his time. Absolutely spiritual and unique. No one will ever be better at architecture- ever! Thank you Frank for all of your beautiful work. It is an inspiration and a blessing to all!
Wright's work is worth studying, Wright's life is not.
The deeper you dive into the details of his life, the more sordid it becomes.
It's best to ignore as much of his personal story as possible and stick to his work.
Sometimes you got to separate the art from the artist. If life was paradise the would not be arts.
you have not read very much written by people who were close to him if you think his entire personal life was reprehensible.
He was not perfect, certainly, but most people who dealt with him personally or professionally were fond of him. That's never true of genuinely bad people.
@@myotherusername9224
Have you read, "The Fellowship"?
It is a book on Wright that uses information about him that was taken from interviews, and from documents by people who knew him personally. It is probably the most footnoted book I've ever read, and I've read my share of technical books.
Read it, I think you may change your mind a bit.
And don't misconstrue what I wrote, I never said that everything he did was morally reprehensible. Nobody can survive, let alone succeed in society, if they were completely bad.
@@deezynar thank you for the reference. I haven't read _The Fellowship_, and as I read my comment, I realize I wasn't completely confident in what I was saying. I have read the positive reactions of various people but not deeply enough or widely enough.
Must check it out.
Very well done, gives the layman a good intro to FLW and architecture. Thanks!
Thank you! Appreciate the comment
FLW and one of his students, Paolo Soleri (Arcosanti, book "Arcology: City in the Image of Man") are the designers that inspired me to become an Architect.
DANG I LOVE THIS VIDEO
Also have a class on FLW in half an hour so it's gonna be a blast. Thanks for making this x
Thank you! And enjoy the class.
Out here in Maricopa County Arizona, the older locals say that Frank Lloyd Wright was testifying at a lawsuit trial in downtown Phoenix and one attorney asked him if he was the Greatest Architect in the World to which he replied "Yes." It was a long drive back to his Scottsdale home and, by the time he arrived there, his wife had heard some drive time radio disk jockeys joking about his testimony on the air. When confronted my Mrs. Wright about his blatant show of arrogance, Mr. Wright replied, "Sweetheart, I was under oath."
Isn't he quoted somewhere saying "It's hard to be humble when you're a genius."?
Do you put this comment on every FLW video? Cuz seems like I see it on all of them.
@@oldarpanet He also said , in choosing between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility, he chose the former. When once asked if he agreed with the characterization of being the greatest architect in the United States , he responded by saying that he might quibble with the limitation.
My history teacher would of loved u. Great guild ed video u held my attention fully. When u put u all of u its just beautiful. Ur so practical.
Frank Lloyd wright is an amazing architect but we should remember another architect which is Louis Sullivan, frank Lloyd wrights Mentor.
The way you narrate the video and the editing is amazing. Keep doing it, it's very cool to see a video like this.
this is a really helpful video it will help with my design assessment
Sullivan, my Grandmothers family, Counties Kerry and Cork, Ireland. 😘🍀
Taliesin was a Welsh poet a nod to his mother's homeland
Great video! Just wanted to say that according to a couple of books I have read, he started the fire before he killed anyone, so that anyone who survived and tried to run out of the house, would then be met with fire. I say that, because I believe at least one of Mameh’s children died from the fire, even though they were all physically attacked.
Why don't you explore his "Price Tower"?
Fantastic video & very informative. Also, what a spectacular “studio” you’re in for this episode. 🤓
Very good story telling en information in your video, thanks a lot! I'm doing a video on Dutch architect Berlage next week ('father' of Dutch modern architecture). This helped me so much to understand the influence of Wright (and Sullivan), super
Thank you! And you just got me to look into Berlage, awesome buildings. I can't help but see some Wright influence in the Kunstmuseum Den Haag.
Funny how self-confidence is always interpreted as conceit and arrogance... mediocrity, like misery, loves company. Some of the most intelligent people I have ever met in 55 years are Architects, and I'm proud to be in the industry myself.
Don’t you realise the smartest people you’ve met are architects because that’s what your are and that’s who you interact with? Like a physicist would say the smartest people they’ve met are physicists? That’s your bubble, stop judging from where you stand and observe the entire picture, it’s a shame you can’t see beyond your foolish eyeballs… that’s why you’re fooled by modernists, their ideas and their arrogance. What’s up with dumb people thinking they can judge who is smart and who is not btw?
such a good video need more videos about architects
please do this with more architects
Watching this a year after it was made… amazing video! I would’ve expected you to have like a 100k subs if you’d have continued with RUclips. Please do
Wow-in 11 minutes and 35 seconds; who can learn more about FLW's best projects? Well done! It would interest me to see FLW's unbuilt projects. The 'Illinois' Mile high building design is his last awesome and awe inspiring work. You've made such a nice tribute here so thanks for sharing!
h e i s t h e w o r s t
it is a "why I think ..." - matter of opinions. It is not pretty, not practical, reminds a pillbox in a big way...
Growing up in the west suburbs of Chicago it was great to see so many of his houses. It is unfortunate though that many have been remodeled because they weren't proven to be a Frank Lloyd Wright house soon enough only to find out later that the address was indeed a house he built.
I can't remember the name of if, but there is a car museum in Buffalo that has and FLW filling station inside. The design be was simple, elegant and functional. The man was a creative genius, to make something as mundane as a gas station with such striking presence. He really thought about the world around him. The Buffalo area has some great Wright properties. I wish the summer lakefront home of the Martins was further along in it's restoration when we were there. If you get out that way, don't miss the Roycroft Inn, a masterpiece of craftsman style architecture.
Very informative look at this genius. Love your “studio” for the video, too! 👍🏻
Thanks! I loved that house so much.
You know Marty there has never been a genius in the field of Architecture, thats never . It is the mother of all the arts but I guess FLW would have to be considered the first.
I would like to read a description of his work that proves his genius, and shows why he was unique. Id also like to know how anyone can start from where we are here and continue to develop his and similar ideas.
Modern architecture has produced nothing as beautiful as Fallingwater, the Usonians, The Prairie homes. The Guggenheim.
That's because the thought process these days is trivial, where Wright was a deep thinker.
As a practicing Architect for 20 years who (obviously!) studied Wright in school, I must say this video was very well researched and presented. Thank you!
Because he said he was, and told everyone every chance he got
Tell a lie a thousand times and it will become the truth, but not really… i have experience in convincing people i’m smart, it’s not very hard
Delicious...
Hope i can be the genius architect like Wright, Aamin;)
this is just amazing
so helpful
Lovely video, One thing I would love to know, how did the tragedy affect his work afterwards. You mentioned the event shaped his life, if you can tell me more about it, I'd highly appreciate it D:
After the death of Mamah Wright built the textile block houses in the Los Angeles area. These are often compared to Aztec or Mayan tombs etc.and the houses have definite tomb like feeling to them. The Millard house (La Miniatura) in Pasadena is built into a culvert on the side of the property leaving the upper flat area for a lawn. They are fascinating homes really. There's a great video on youtube where they explore that these houses were a form of healing for FLW as he did them and they were not successful as homes, and he never returned to the style.
@@jasonschmitt1600 Appreciate the update :D any chance you can link me the video of the houses and how there were his healing process. Much appreciated
He threw himself into work on the Imperial Hotel.
" in action, there is relief from anguish of mind"-
FLlW
His LA block houses were very. .. massive and closed off, like protective caves.
One of his apprentices had a roll over accident (alone) driving Wright's limousine, and Wright designed and built a new roof for the car. Someone questioned why it had no rear window. Wright replied: "I never look behind me."
No doubt he was a guineas . One of a kind. Never will be a architect of great talent, God send to America, falling waters for ever. My true American hero. God. Bless him.
He was indeed a guineas pig 😂
Great job! Amazingly informative video
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I frequent Crystal Bridges in Bentonville, Arkansas. It features the Bachman-Wilson House originally built and designed by the legendary Frank Lloyd Wright in Millstone, New Jersey for of course Abraham Wilson and Gloria Bachman in 1954. It was then acquired by Crystal Bridges in 2013 who carefully deconstructed the house and shipped it there to northwest Arkansas. The reconstruction was meticulously put back together piece by piece. It was finished and opened to the public in 2015.
this is a really well explained video ! thank you so much :)
The chef was more than disgruntled. He did what he did because he thought that Wright was living in sin and that the house was born of ill morals etc.
Yes, he was a brilliant architect, but an absolutely MISSERABLE human being. My mother-in-law HATED him, he would come into the restaurant she worked at in Spring Green (WI), she would tell how rude & arrogant he was, & if he did leave a tip, it'd be a measly pocket change, like 'why even bother'... It was widely known that he didn't pay his bills, so the only way he was allowed to have a phone at Talliheson was if it was a pay phone... In one of the houses he designed, the only thing he'd allow them to put on the walls was a picture of HIM, he went to visit the owners after they'd settled in, and after they went to bed, he went around taking down everything that THEY had put up, in the house that THEY had paid for... In another house, he even designed clothes for them to wear in the house, pretty much like uniforms, in THEIR OWN HOUSE... There are many stories about his personality, & being very full of himself... Yes, he was a brilliant architect, but absolutely MISERABLE human being.
There is no question in my mind that FLW was a brilliant architect, degree or no. That said, he absolutely was not an engineer as evidenced by his “vertical fireplace” in Wingspread. Wish I had been there for the one and only lighting of it 😛.
It's almost impossible to imagine, but those amazing Oak Park era prairie homes predated the Model T, so 99% of the traffic passing them on the streets when they were first built was primarily horse and buggy.
The Jeddah Tower design is basically a rip off of Wright's 'The Illinois'
They're practically the same building
Ugly buildings.
@@heavymetalpulp3837 Forms
True
Did he do all calculations and reinforcement designs...by himself? Or he just had these ideas in his head and someone else had to prove it will stand still?
His massive creations 🤩 were useful, I think I can understand if Frank Llyod wright come to India and build a wonderful buliding in india also.😅
I was just writiing an essay about Wright and this video helped me a lot. Really nice work
I know ur loved. U have got the power to be rich. Important man u will always be.
Just dont be too big 4 ur own GOOD. Looks like ur great to to everyone.
Blend with the natural desert landscape... **Puts freaking grass 💀💀**
YOU
Are great man and video was the best. Nice looking u keep the drive u have.
Love ur voice kid. Awesome
he sounds like a very dishonorable man. from screwing his employer out of his share of comissions for the work that should have gone through the firm, to having affairs all over the place. Not good.
how in the world did he talk his boss into loaning him that kind of money? it would be several million in todays money- and all the expensive ornamentation! and six kids?? rock star money
Thank you sm, i got my a level exam today and there are no good and short german videos about this guy :(
Its been said he was a rock star bad boy of architecture. That is so awesome.
Why just 178 subs???
I know, right? : )
A PLUS IN ALL U DO. SERIOUSLY.
Amazing intro to the genius architect!
what is the name of the window you mentioned in the beginning of the video?
🧠Appreciation! Thanks again!
A clarification should be made on Wrights formal education. Wright attended Madison High School, but there is no evidence that he graduated. In 1886 he was admitted to the University of Wisconsin-Madison as a special student and worked under Allan D. Conover, a professor of civil engineering, before leaving the school after one year without taking a degree.
such low subs for such high quality YT channel. Hope u grow faster...
Amazing video mate
Thank you 🙏
Great entertaining n educational video
what happened to his personal life after his wife died?
you should never do videos ever again
F.L.W.s designs were sometimes built in the wrong climate zone. Ruin ensued. They are maintenance nightmares. That's not genius.
Where is this man sitting at the beginning of this video?
So awesome content, i love it!
Marin county buildings?
dam this such a good video tho hats off
Ok now do Marion Mahoney Griffin
very well done!
I put out the hypothesis that Lloyd is overrated.
I don't see how the prairie style is made out to be such a great invention. Ok yeah, it fits the the american landscape. ...any more depth in it than that? Secondly, it seems plain wrong to state that Lloyd "coined the term" form follows function. The term has a whole wiki article to it, look it up. Now, about his architecture in general, I think its representative of a kind of american feel, yes. But that in and of itself doesn't make it great architecture. For instance, his Maya inspired concrete patterns/bricks are plainly unauthentic. They are taken too far out of context, ripped out of one culture and implanted into the next, way into the life and environment of people who have no connection to it whatsoever. The result is that the architecture comes across fake, kinda disneylandish, inorganic. And why make a big deal about chairs that looke like spines from the back side? He cared about posture... aha... that's all? How is that in any way a genius idea with depth? Nothing but decoration - and "decoration" should be the number one disliked term for any desginer - especially if they respect the term "form follows function". And the fact that one of his buildings in Japan survived an earthquake is probably more thanks to structural engineers than to him. All in all, yes, Lloyd reflects the american spirit: shallowness.
A shallow comment that shows how shallow are your knowledge of Wright, and his work, and your analytical insight.
@@myotherusername9224shallow? It’s literally 10 times the size of yours…
@@shakey3306
Number of words does not equal depth of insight, and your comments prove that.
you don't understand Wright, you twist the issues to attempt to make your points , and fail. Just one example:
"I don't see how the prairie style is made out to be such a great invention. Ok yeah, it fits the the american landscape. ...any more depth in it than that?"
wright didn't invent Prairie school, so criticising Wright for it is missing the mark; he was just very active in that style.
There's much more to the Prairie houses of Wright than the horizontality that fits the landscape:
open floor plan,
natural materials,
the use of light and ornament in the art glass,
the repeated themes in the ornament and structure to create an harmonious composition,
integration with nature, bringing the outside in;
and a reinvention of the form:
no longer a box of boxes but something integrated with the landscape and the neighborhood.
His Prairie homes have many unique forms and features to take advantage of the site and integrate the form of the house with the lives and activities of the clients. All very innovative , if you compare those houses to what was building at the time. If you get a chance, visit the Martin house in Buffalo New York or any other of Wright's houses and compare them to what mainstream architects were building in the same neighborhood, it's night and day. There's no way an honest person could say those houses were 'shallow'.
case in point: the Cheney house, with a walled terrace on the street side that provided privacy from the street but a connection to it visually . the lack of roof over that front sitting area kept the front rooms from being too dark.
Search for images of the Wright Cheney house, I can't link here on YT.
It's clear from your comments you have neither studied what Wright created, nor thought profitably about what little you do know .
a timeless mind
A mindless time
he is the worst
There were 10 rolled up plans,blue prints in an umbrella holder in his office and interns drafting tables when he died. They were overlooked,but discovered they sold each for a cool million..Today they are like priceless. Adinosaur of modern architecture
As of lately, soon to be reintroduced here in Buffalo, that gas station at the very beginning of the video, though not sure if it'll be a full service station, or just a museum. Also, not many know that there was a FLW design that's a mausoleum, and that is the coolest design as well, here in Buffalo!
A fine, enjoyable introduction to and survey of Wright's work and life, with excellent photography and narration -skillfully done, though devoid of any critical perspectives.
Cernipan
Awesome video & production quality. I've watched many FLW videos, but none with the entertaining and viewer friendly format.
Nice overview of FLW! Genius for sure. Why not make a movie of his epic life?
Very informative video. Music not needed. A distraction from your words.
Amazing video! Never heard of him but got so much info out of this video! Thank you
I love this video. I wish you had left the murder of his family out. It makes the video not something I can use with my younger learners. It's a shame, otherwise I would have loved using as a teaching tool.
Subscribed to your channel with this video. Splendid.
Great video learning about flw very interesting cheer’s
Duh such a good video and then only 300 subs? Gotta get this man some publicity ;)
Like other commenters, I also think this video is very well done...brief with fine research and presentation.
3:01 Wait, did he get to settle his first studio in one of the buildings built by Louis Sullivan ? 😂
Fallingwater is one of his best creation and the name also bear his initials : F a LL ing W ater (FLlW). Isn't it bizarre?
Nah, it’s crap
My dad was an architect and our home was strongly influenced with contemporary style of and designed afterThe Robey house with 3 ft overhangs of spacials on roof sophits
👍👍👍😍😍😍
A great snapshot , well presented, thank you
vrv chair at the beginning
Ha! Totally. Even has the same yellow color.
My dream is to drive in a Sprinter Van across the US and visit FLW's homes and buildings. I'm currently the Northeast US. When I was in Chicago I didn't get a chance to visit the FLW buildings. Bummer.
Shitty dream…
i absolutely adore Taliesin, thx for the vid
how about some critiques too
Modern stuff is all about worshiping, there’s no logical argumentation about why something is what it is.
I'm in love with the red details in the waterfall hous
Tell me about his football career
It was called Cherokee red trim.