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> All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable. -- Frank Lloyd Wright, "The Living City" (1958)
by PavlovsCat 8y ago
> All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright, "The Living City" (1958)
- srtjstjsj 8y agoThat's ironic considering that Wright was famous for building that looked beautiful but were uncomfortable and poor-functioning.
- PavlovsCat 8y agoSince confort and function both relate to humans living in these buildings, I'd say you're criticizing the buildings based on human values and therefore confirming the quote :P Maybe he was so pleased with himself after making that unassailable observation, which will still be valid long after nothing of the buildings remain, that that it went to his head and impacted his work negatively? I have no idea, I just like the quote ^^
- theoh 8y agoThe buildings have fine architectural values, just not necessarily fine use values. There's no paradox here. It's building as art. Any human aesthetic judgment is human by definition.
- erikpukinskis 8y agoAre you confusing Wright with Gehry? FLW has a reputation for making human scale spaces, designed around what inhabitants would do with it. There’s customs built furniture, custom fittings. Gehry is designing 3D sculptures that don’t seem meant to live in. Although most of FLW’s residential work in LA is foreboding and not particularly suited to living in. I’ll give you that. But it’s not really typical of his career. He was in mourning.
- 1123581321 8y agoThis is not true. Anecdotal, but I just toured a house Wright built for a veteran in a wheelchair and was pleased at how much thought went into the height and reachability of all the interior areas, in addition to the quality of the structure and the exterior.