Unbuilt Frank Lloyd Wright Designs Brought to Life in 3-D Renderings
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One of these fires is particularly notorious.
His disciple Fay built Thorncrown Chapel, which IMHO is the most-beautiful structure any human has ever designed (even in its simplicity).
https://lynceans.org/all-posts/frank-lloyd-wrights-1956-mile...
Look at photos of the Robie house in Chicago, typical of his early prairie period:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robie_House
https://www.google.com/search?q=Robie+House+interior
The largest building of his prairie period was the Dana-Thomas house in Springfield, also worth seeing.
That said, "large and angular" fits his style pretty accurately. Though the most indicative aspect of his designs is the layering. A lot of his buildings are built to have a very particular look of being made up of mostly flat horizontal layers of various thicknesses, protruding or retracting from the layers below them in varied shapes. Often these leaned heavily into having a lot of right angles, but when he used curves, he leaned hard into them: The Norman Lyke's House or The Center for the Performing Arts in San Jose are example of extremely curvy buildings still unmistakably in his style.
Ultimately, Wright's enduring fame can be easily understood by the fact that he was novel, consistent, and prolific. His style was (and to only a slightly lesser extent, still is) new and different from most everything else, and he stuck to it enough that people could recognize his work in particular. Combine that with designing quite a few buildings, and you've got yourself a recipe for the most famous architect ever.
https://currier.org/frank-lloyd-wright/
I like them (the ones I've seen anyway). They have an interesting and unique aesthetic. I like the design of the stained glass alot. I'm not sure how practical living day to day, but people did. The one in New Hampshire (Zimmerman house) had wall to ceiling windows on the back side.
This is a fun use of 3d tech. I did some Unreal engine work, and the first thing was building out an apartment interior you could then move through in real time. It was kind of neat. The detail in having to place all the interior lights and all was something.
The "Groupius House" (by walter Groupius) is another modern really practical house. But in this case the architect was the ocupant.
Here is a very well done KCET documentary that explains more.
The I love Lucy show changed the TV industry. It is the first TV show made with archival quality footage, on some kind of reasonable schedule for the actors to have a life, invented the rerun and many of the basic techniques still used today in the industry.
The people who radically alter what was tend to be revered but those who come after and grow up with the heritage of what they fostered often take it for granted and don't get why it's special.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchandise_Mart#/media/File:M...
Fun fact, the Mart supplanted a famous old Marshall Fields building that was torn down - the Wholesale Store - a building from which Louis Sullivan (Wright's mentor to whom this National Life Insurance plan was tribute) took some of his greatest inspiration.
Mind you, some clear silicone caulk in between the gaps in the windows where they don’t quite fit would be nice.
FLW had a tendency to dream beyond what the building materials of the day could achieve and just didn’t care about little details like that.
He also tended to be fast and flexible with the structural engineering on his buildings, that said, none of them have fallen down, and some of his innovations have proven quite durable (SC Johnson Wax, being an example)
The house-sized ones you could build for the better virtual worlds, such as Second Life.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auldbrass_Plantation
Fun fact: the producer of Die Hard owns it.
It's a fascinating place.
He basically defined the american mid-century modern aesthetic, from which TOS set design was heavily influenced.
FLW wasn't invited to to participate in the contest for the new capitol; he hated the proposed designs, and wanted to make a statement all his own.
As reported in the papers at the time, Arizonans thirty or younger mostly loved it. Older folks, many of whom had lived in the area since before it was a state, were disdainful at best. One old cowboy referred to the drawing as "looking like an Oriental whorehouse". Dropping it in the middle of Papago Park was also a controversial choice.
One of the drawings for it is still in FLW's office at Taliesin West.