When I did a tour of Taliesin West, I was surprised by the derisive attitude the tour guides had for engineers, and that FLW didn’t need those fuddy duddies messing up his wondrous designs. Maybe engineering was a different realm back then, but it didn’t surprise me that many of his buildings had significant problems with their building envelopes and structural elements the day they were built, let alone once they started to age. The glass tube inserts used for the roof of the Wrigley building couldn’t be sealed, so it leaked like a sieve whenever it rained, but it looked nice while doing it.
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