The woods are all green in the summer. The trees are full of branches, none of which are straight and pushing into it all are these huge ivory colored planks of concrete; concrete isn’t natural. It’s man-made.
Fallingwater is far from “Organic with Nature” It’s a massive intrusion into the green woods. It uses red painted steel. No red in the trees in the woods. It uses layered stone unlike anthing found in nature. The stone is cut and chiseled and glued together into rectangular shapes. Need it be said that nature doesn’t make concrete?
Wright’s Fallingwater is a stupendous design that’s an engineering nightmare full of stupid design flaws from the failure to specify stainless steel for the wet environment to the complete failure of his oversized railings on the decks that caused cracks and a collapse that was only saved because some engineers worked up soloutions to the devilish Wright’s awful engineering failures. . Wright, a bone Fide genius without any competition or contemporaries, was a pretentious and bratty artist probably because he had to deal with so many bratty, pretentious ignorant clients and of course with the stupid media types and the public who could neither recognize nor understand Michaelangelo on Market street.
Look at the Guggenheim. A stupendous almost superhuman effort in the middle of Manhattan that will stop you in your tracks when you come upon it.
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