alt Hacker NewsIt never ceases to amaze me how Wright's style was so ahead of the times. A lot of people immediately think the houses are mid-50's but they're in fact 20 to 30 years earlier! If you happen to be driving through somewhere near one of the houses that are under conservancy[1] they are well worth a stop.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Frank_Lloyd_Wright_wor...
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45 years earlier in some cases. I found the Robie House in Chicago (built in 1910!) to be a total head-trip.
Things 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.
Isn'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.
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.
[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casa_Loma
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_D._Martin_House