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We have had the joy of visiting many FLW homes, including "Fallingwater" which is only an hour from our home. His foremost belief was integrating architecture into the outside landscape. He also advocated what we now call "open floor plans". He is brilliant, even with all of his peculiarities.
7:40 Wright got the call from Spring Green about the tragic murder of Mamah and her children and the fire, while working at Midway Gardens. He immediately departed for the train station where he found Edwin Cheney, his client and husband of Mamah, who was also waiting for the next train to Spring Green. They shared a compartment for the painful journey.
Your right Ken: Wright was indeed reaching for something MORE. He was pushing greatly the envelope of what was possible with the materials and the technology of the day. In fact his ideas were just beyond what was possible, and yet he continued to push those boundaries. And now we're all so happy he did!
The entire Mike Wallace interview needs to be watched not just the small piece chosen by this show - Wallace was very aggressively looking only for outrageousness. Wright, who was over 80 at the time, withstood the onslaught with class. “Reporters” only care about how other journalists view them - a huge bubble chamber.
Too much talk about the very FEW buildings Mr. Wright built in New York. Why does New York have to insinuate itself into everything? Mr. Wright's *heart* lives in Oak Park, IL. River Forest IL. Riverside IL, Chicago, IL and Spring Green WI and to a lesser amount, the deserts of Arizona. New York cannot and *does not* own Frank Lloyd Wright! The Guggenheim was OK, but it wasn't Mr. Wright's best work. His Prairie Homes were and still are. The Chicago area is where Mr. Wright did the majority of his most inspired work. I do wish New York would stop trying to take OUR geniuses from us in the Midwest. Get your own, New York. :D Every great building in the Chicago area, with a few exceptions (like our lovely Painted Lady Victorians) was built by or inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright. I don't see him in New York. He lived and his spirit lives in the Chicago area and Spring Green WI.
If only Oak Park would allow me to save Frank Lloyd Wright's trees after the ones he planted just spent their first 120 years preparing for the next 100. Only then to needlessly die of emerald ash borer, Dutch elm disease or get in the way of developers.
Like most intelligent designers Mr. Wright thought his best work was the one he was currently designing. He always tried to top himself, a difficult task for anyone.
I have such mixed feelings about him after reading his biography. Certainly a genius, but also narcissistic with some pretty awful opinions and behaviors.
