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Recommend checking out Taliesin West, if you're ever near Scottsdale. You'll get to see where he and his students did a lot of the draft work for his architectu
by lelandfe 2y ago
Recommend checking out Taliesin West, if you're ever near Scottsdale. You'll get to see where he and his students did a lot of the draft work for his architecture and see some of the drafts too.
Fun story, Wright despised the electrification of the rural US, and threatened to abandon the property when poles were erected nearby, considering them unsightly.
- hinkley 2y agoHe also illegally logged land on someone else's property to give himself a river view at Taliesen the First. And removed a load bearing wall from his sister's house and didn't replace it. He's not my favorite architect by a long way. And I find the idea of him being in charge of a mile tall building to be horrifying.
- bluGill 2y agoI much prefer Gaudi - even more outrageous, and his roofs didn't leak. He didn't have access to modern engineering, but all his buildings were well built.
- hinkley 2y ago> and his roofs didn't leak. People kissing his ass and he can’t even make a fucking roof work. This is another in a long line of things my father and I disagree about. (It was his idea to take the tour)
- AlanYx 2y agoGaudi pioneered a lot of interesting physical modelling techniques to check his designs, e.g., he was the first to use inverted space-hanging models for domes and vaults (although his predecessors had used them for arches).