It's really amusing when you tour something like Casa Loma[0] in Toronto (a gothic revival house) and then compare it to the Darwin Martin house[1] in Buffalo, which was built basically 10 years before. I can't imagine visiting a FLW house in the early 1900s and then building a super kitschy castle.
reply45 years earlier in some cases. I found the Robie House in Chicago (built in 1910!) to be a total head-trip.
replyThings like the Dessau Bauhaus and the German Pavilion in Barcelona were built in the 1920s. Post-war Modernism was a bit of a second wind.
replyIsn't Wright sort of famous for designing structures that leak when it rains? My understanding is that Falling Water House is a beautiful money pit.
replyFalling Water was an engineering disaster, but it was a unique project for him. Most of his houses are not like that.
replywell, it's often said that all good architecture leaks [0]
replyFLW created the times
replyThere's something similar in cinema. For example, I was watching Terrance Malick's Badlands for the first time a couple of years ago and I could swear it felt like a film from the 90s or maybe early 2000s. But it was from 1973.
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