Posted
on June 8, 2014
On
this date in 1867 was born the man who was “the greatest American
architect of all time (according to the American Institute of
Architects).
...The
man who created “the best all-time work of American architecture”
(according to an article in Business Week) and more than 1000
other wonderful structures.
Frank
Lloyd Wright believed that buildings should be in harmony with their
environment as well as with humanity; this belief is called “organic
architecture.”
Offices,
churches, schools.
Skyscrapers,
hotels, museums.
Exteriors,
interiors, furniture, stained glass window.
—Wright
designed it all.
Here
is a bit of (I assume) backwards prophecy:
Once
her son had become a famous architect, his mother wrote in her
biography that she told people when he was still in her womb that he
would grow up to design beautiful buildings, and she says that she
decorated his nursery walls with pictures of beautiful cathedrals.
I'm
not positive I buy it. But...maybe... If for some reason she really,
really wanted her son to be an architect, she might have told him so
many times, he decided it was what he wanted, too.
Here's
that “best all-time work” – Falling Water:
…LEGOS...
...and
Minecraft.
Learn
more about architecture at Kinder Art and Loggia.
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