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Confess your unpopular opinion: Frank Lloyd Wright is terrible. Fallingwater was unsound from the day it was built, and despite extra-reinforcing by the contr
by JackFr 6y ago
Confess your unpopular opinion: Frank Lloyd Wright is terrible.
Fallingwater was unsound from the day it was built, and despite extra-reinforcing by the contractor when built, the cantilevered balconies needed to be fixed multiple times to ensure the safety of the building.
New York's Guggenheim has a design that looks good on paper and in isolation, but in person looks shoddy, as the smooth concrete seams are not quite so smooth as in the design drawings. Additionally, Fifth Avenue in the 80's & 90's on the Upper East Side has many absolutely gorgeous Gilded Age mansions, museums and churches, which fit well with one another, while the spiral of the Guggenheim thumbs its nose and screams "Look at me!" like an obnoxious teenager.
I'll see myself out.
- StillBored 6y agoAnd overwhelmingly his buildings were known to leak and have various other problems that generally made them inhabitable. So, while they look nice, they are the very essence of form over function. In my book a device (building) that fails in its primary purpose (to provide shelter) is a failure despite how nice it might look.