LaVisHh said:

Yep... that is one of my favorites... he was a genius I tell you!

That house is breathtaking!



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[This message was edited Sun Feb 2 9:22:59 PST 2003 by AzureStar]

Frank Lloyd Wright's shit is SO sixties... LAME!!!

IceNine said:

Dork!

AzureStar said:

I wondered if anyone would get the joke... :LOL:

He kicked the fucking bucket in 1959!

Taliesin West.

ajd said:

Here's an international link to Cassina - they feature several design masters.

http://www.cassina.it/

All of their furniture is made in Italy, so I'm sure they have contracts with selected retailers throughout Europe (note English, French, German, Italian language choices on intro).

How about a bit of Guadi?

Casa Mila - La Pedrera


[This message was edited Sun Feb 2 10:06:00 PST 2003 by xenon]

There's a gas station in Cloquet, MN, a little town near by designed by FLW. It's space age design has the upper floor of the gas station jetting out over the bottom floor. The windows on top are slanted in such a way that it resembles a space craft. A Very Cool gas station.

Casa Batllo - Guadi

xenon said:

It's even better at night!

Wingspread


Wingspread


Wingspread

Azure, have you ever seen Wright's plans for Greater Baghdad. They're really cool.

xenon said:

No, I haven't! Is there a place where I can view them online?

AzureStar said:

I don't know, I've been searching for them all afternoon because I wanted to post a pic. but no luck yet.

xenon said:

These?

http://www.geocities.com/..._iraq.html

AzureStar said:

Yeah, I found that site, but the pictures are shit.

I have a book written by Neil Levine which contains most of Wrights original plans and drawings, you should check it out if you can. It also shows many of the scrapped ideas for the Guggenheim Museum

xenon said:

Yeah, the pictures are horrible, but at least I know what you were talking about.

I'll have to check into that book as well. Do you know the building that I am talking about where the pillars were a problem in the beginning with the building inspectors? Where Wright had to prove that they would support the structure... I can't remember what building it was or where it was at. I want to find pictures of it.

IceNine said:

I gocha, baby...

"The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead... don't call him an architect." Frank Lloyd Wright

Found it... the Johnson Wax Building. These are the pillars that posed problems for the inspectors and Wright had to build a pillar on site and prove that they would hold the weight of the structure.




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Edit: "Both the Administration Building (also called the Johnson Wax Building) and the later Research Tower...are of brick and glass. The main office work space is articulated by dendriform columns capable of supporting six times the weight imposed upon them, a fact Wright had to demonstrate in order to obtain a building permit."




The Parking Garage




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AzureStar said:

Do you mean the Johnson Wax Headquarters?

Bugger. You got there first.

xenon said:

Yes. yes, yes!

I had watched a documentary on this years ago and this building just amazes me. Thanks, xenon.

"The major problem that was encountered during the construction of the administration building was the innovative type of column that Wright wanted to implement for this project, the mushroom-shaped dendriform column. But this idea provoked skepticism from the Wisconsin Industrial Commission, the organization that was furnishing the building permit before construction began. Each column was supposed to support 12 tons. According to the commission, no more that 5 tons would be supported before failure.

Therefore, in order to prove that the commission was wrong, Frank Llloyd Wright had a test column set up on site. He and Johnson loaded the column with sandbags. They sucessfully loaded 24 tons of sand on the top of the test column without cracking the pillar. Convinced with the results, the commission issued the permit to go ahead with construction."



Now that isn't bothering me anymore... whew!



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[This message was edited Sun Feb 2 12:31:22 PST 2003 by AzureStar]

Check these out for weird columns!

Do you think I may have a Gaudi fetish?

xenon said:

Wow... I love that! I haven't seen too much or read up too much on Gaudi... going to look for more of his creations now!

I love this stuff. Architects amaze me.. well, the good ones anyway. How they can take their vision and actually create a beautiful piece of art... that is SAFE!

Gaudi



This is beautiful... very intricate work!

Pretty...


Gaudi




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[This message was edited Sun Feb 2 13:06:30 PST 2003 by AzureStar]

I want this:

AzureStar said:

He designed some gorgeous shit, didn't he?