Tuesday, November 11, 2003

I was just thinking, as I was looking at actual, bonafide Frank Lloyd Wright homes for sale, that the greatest architects in the world are the ones who so precisely and seamlessly match a client's needs with the engineering to realize those dreams that the imprimatur is the client's, not the architect's. Not to say the FLW wasn't a genious of an architect, but the necessity of his work was not burdened by the complex needs of clients. His work created art, redefined aspects, in the west, of what we consider living space and how we live in that space, but it did not match the complex nature of designing the HVAC for a Mies van der Rohe - nor, to some degree did the work of Mies match the complexity of engineering the creativity. 1:14:36 AM