As an engineer specializing in the Building Envelope there’s a supposed FLW quote that we throw around often. Supposedly he once, disdainfully, offered that if a building doesn’t leak then “the architect didn’t try hard enough.” Of course we weaponize that, while throwing shade on architect’s of today, but it’s hard not to see that the Taliesin West guides understand the philosophy that undergirds the place.
I’ll stick around and see if somebody cares to tell me that he never said any such thing. Google could solve this for me, but the story is just so good…
