tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post2575859979752039761..comments2024-03-19T21:14:01.007-07:00Comments on The Compass Rose: The Austere Hedonism of Luis BarraganCurtis Favillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-41234001184262445252010-01-25T18:27:24.995-08:002010-01-25T18:27:24.995-08:00Wright's career was long and complicated. He ...Wright's career was long and complicated. He seldom designed a house that was really cheap to build or to maintain, though he was very site sensitive, in his own way, and often ingenious. Not all his clients were happy with what he gave them. And there were often structural mistakes and failures that either extended construction times, or caused problems later. <br /><br />Wright's audacious projects, such as Fallingwater, were very influential on many architects. Perhaps something like the Johnson Glass Company building might be cited as an influence on Barragan. I was being fairly general in my recitation of influences from Modernist icons.Curtis Favillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-9472759225667237762010-01-25T17:07:51.435-08:002010-01-25T17:07:51.435-08:00late Wright
FL Wright supposedly designed his LA...<i>late Wright </i><br /><br />FL Wright supposedly designed his LA houses to be affordable, progressive, environmentally copacetic as well as aesthetically pleasing, with a hint of the exotic, perhaps (as with the mayan-brick house in west LA). Not sure what they sold for when FLW had them built, but now worth 4 or 5 million shekels. That seems to be the case for a lot of "arty" architecture, LA or SF (Gehry's bizarre homes in LA also worth millions). <br /><br />Less is More, much more: $$$s.Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-45885908285451078692010-01-25T12:03:57.445-08:002010-01-25T12:03:57.445-08:00I once interviewed architects in Seattle as to why...I once interviewed architects in Seattle as to why they didn't build more surrealist buildings. They said they had to build according to code. The only room for innovation was doors and windows.<br /><br />I didn't know of this architect. His work seems inspired by De Chirico?Kirby Olsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943noreply@blogger.com