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<p>[QUOTE="Phil F., post: 618986, member: 5301"]I am a FLW advocate. I so much wanted to be a organic architect. His designs have more significant influence than the drawbacks of his creations. <b>I hope it gets relocated....</b> It wouldn't be the first time. However being so small it probably wouldn't be financially sensible. FLW pushed the envelope in architecture and design. He was somewhat of an experimentalist too. His own home was always being modified somehow for some new idea. I love his work, but some of it is impracticable. Maintenance and upkeep can become quite an expense. I loved visiting the Veteran's memorial building on the waterfront of Milwaukee. It stood out like a wing from a bird. When I visited a number of years ago They built an underlying support structure to support the whole building. The cantilever design probably needed more support. When at Falling Water, I spoke with a maintenance man about the building. Winters are the bane of their work... They constantly have to sweep off the snow from the roofs when snow falls! Flat roofs are not for northern winter weather! I cringed when I learned of the demise of the Larkin building. Another architectural landmark, but obsolete for office use! Maybe we should tear down the pyramids of Egypt! They serve no use! Alas, the Booth Cottage is just in the wrong place... It was probably all alone in the woods when it was built. The neighborhood has evolved for more suburban use...and the larger American home. I wonder what they will squeeze in... a 4 unit condo????. The booth Cottage reminds me a little of the Unisonian designs. Simple. Space for the less than wealthy. And it was put up as a temporary residence to boot. A shame to see even his simplest designs torn down. In the old adage "Function follows Form or does Form follows Function". Frank dictated not only the design of the home, but how the inhabitants were to live in it. Today, following the Function we Form our lives. For the majority, we don't dictate the design our sacred spaces but rather fit ourselves into the matchbox Ticky Tac designs that are put forth to us today.</p><p><br /></p><p>Despite FLWs shortcomings, he stretched our minds to think of how live with our natural surrounds. Today we modify our environment to fit our mechanistic, manufactured, computer created spaces and stuff. </p><p><br /></p><p>But to really know FLW one must live in a FLW home, furnishings and all. No modifying, just experience. And then ask why. Why force function to fit into the design. Frank gave us the experience of living in a sacred space. A Zen experience. Thank You Frank Lloyd Wright! </p><p><br /></p><p>Phil</p><p><a href="https://www.pinterest.com/myamiphil/flw-the-architect/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.pinterest.com/myamiphil/flw-the-architect/" rel="nofollow">https://www.pinterest.com/myamiphil/flw-the-architect/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Phil F., post: 618986, member: 5301"]I am a FLW advocate. I so much wanted to be a organic architect. His designs have more significant influence than the drawbacks of his creations. [B]I hope it gets relocated....[/B] It wouldn't be the first time. However being so small it probably wouldn't be financially sensible. FLW pushed the envelope in architecture and design. He was somewhat of an experimentalist too. His own home was always being modified somehow for some new idea. I love his work, but some of it is impracticable. Maintenance and upkeep can become quite an expense. I loved visiting the Veteran's memorial building on the waterfront of Milwaukee. It stood out like a wing from a bird. When I visited a number of years ago They built an underlying support structure to support the whole building. The cantilever design probably needed more support. When at Falling Water, I spoke with a maintenance man about the building. Winters are the bane of their work... They constantly have to sweep off the snow from the roofs when snow falls! Flat roofs are not for northern winter weather! I cringed when I learned of the demise of the Larkin building. Another architectural landmark, but obsolete for office use! Maybe we should tear down the pyramids of Egypt! They serve no use! Alas, the Booth Cottage is just in the wrong place... It was probably all alone in the woods when it was built. The neighborhood has evolved for more suburban use...and the larger American home. I wonder what they will squeeze in... a 4 unit condo????. The booth Cottage reminds me a little of the Unisonian designs. Simple. Space for the less than wealthy. And it was put up as a temporary residence to boot. A shame to see even his simplest designs torn down. In the old adage "Function follows Form or does Form follows Function". Frank dictated not only the design of the home, but how the inhabitants were to live in it. Today, following the Function we Form our lives. For the majority, we don't dictate the design our sacred spaces but rather fit ourselves into the matchbox Ticky Tac designs that are put forth to us today. Despite FLWs shortcomings, he stretched our minds to think of how live with our natural surrounds. Today we modify our environment to fit our mechanistic, manufactured, computer created spaces and stuff. But to really know FLW one must live in a FLW home, furnishings and all. No modifying, just experience. And then ask why. Why force function to fit into the design. Frank gave us the experience of living in a sacred space. A Zen experience. Thank You Frank Lloyd Wright! Phil [URL]https://www.pinterest.com/myamiphil/flw-the-architect/[/URL][/QUOTE]
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