Frank Lloyd Wright 150 birthday events

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/experience/america/2017/06/08/frank-lloyd-wright-150-birthday-events/102599876/

 

some fun stuff going down! Enjoy!!!!

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1959: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York) 

 

Dreamed up in the mid-1940s, Wright's designs for the Guggenheim -- his only museum -- were very much against the grain of the rectilinear modern European architecture that dominated New York and cities worldwide from the end of the Second World War. 

A spiraling organic structure, rather like a Nautilus shell, the completed Guggenheim was a highly personal architectural statement rather than some rational analysis of function expressed in a grid of 90-degree angles. 

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From its opening six months after Wright's death at the age of 91 (he had never stopped working), the Guggenheim was loved and loathed. Those who loved it reveled in its sense of freedom and daring, its radical architectural breaking from that of conventional museums and galleries. Those who loathed it took against its contrary design.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/07/architecture/frank-lloyd-wright-architecture-150-years/

great place to hangout!

Edited June 8, 2017 by Jacque67

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1939: Fallingwater (Fayette County, Pennsylvania)

 

With the effects of the Great Depression and the growing influence of a younger generation of Bauhaus-influenced Modern architects, Wright's career stalled. 

In 1934, Edgar J. Kaufmann, a wealthy Pittsburgh department store proprietor, commissioned the 67-year-old architect to design a weekend mountain retreat overlooking the waterfall at Bear Run in the Laurel Highlands 65 miles southeast of the city. 

Wright wrote Kaufmann and his wife, Liliane: "I want you to live with the waterfall, not just to look at it."

 

sublime