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No, just the opposite. His schools have had issues, because the schools were meant to be sandboxes for the students to get real world experience, and try thing
by RNCTX 6y ago
No, just the opposite.
His schools have had issues, because the schools were meant to be sandboxes for the students to get real world experience, and try things which may or may not work. The fact that the schools have become landmarks after his death has nothing to do with Wright's design philosophies.
If you look at Wright's own house, it incorporates lots of clever ideas in terms of engineering more rugged forms which will hold up over time (like molding profiles that are designed to be coped from multiple directions to keep joints in place, and stained glass patterns that lend themselves to 'hiding' extra reinforcement on one side where the structure will be invisible to the beholder, for example).
Here are my pics of his house when I went through it last time I was in Chicago. I tried to get as many such above examples as possible...
https://imgur.com/a/ontIR https://imgur.com/a/ontIR
- vidanay 6y agoI've always heard that his designs and concepts are great (that's my opinion too), but the actual construction quality was lacking.