Dood, dystopia rules our worlds.
We bare 1984.
There.
9/11 was as reportedâŚ
this just in:
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THAT⌠Is what the inside of Falling Water looks like???
Dear God⌠You, sir, have just shattered a lifelong misconception.
Iâm going to go over here and cry while questioning everything Iâve ever known.
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My husband loves the monolithic and geodesic domes. He even drug us out to the old monolithic dome neighborhood on the way to Austin, TX and made me swear that we could get one when we retire.
He also loves the underground dirt home in our area.
It looks like something youâd find amongst moisture farmers on tattooine.
The outside of any place is always better than the inside.
May I interest you in some Mexican poncho throw pillows and a furry loveseat?
Possibly join me in this staggeringly cozy breakfast nook while the portrait of Uncle Edgar stares at you the entire time?
Afterwards we can get the family together and all just sit across from each other, glaring.
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I love concrete brutalism.
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By rights, that building ought to be full of ninjas and at least one doomsday device.
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The whole thing is very poorly staged. The breakfast nook looks like it has some great freatures, but the knicknacks have been placed on the shelves by a 12-year-old.
Still: wine-warmer? WTF.
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I thought the inside was kind of amazing, actually. Wright designed almost everything in the house; as you look around itâs the ultimate example of an architect creating a cohesive space. The âtransparent cornersâ (spots where windows meet windows with no border or frame) are really terrific too.
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The garden is well-defended:
There are weapons prominently placed for easy reach should interior combat occur:
Instead of Ninjas, would you settling for some severe oriental scowls?
Woe betide any who attempt to invade by boat!
The bathrooms are well worth a visit. Be sure to drink a lot, and go on a slow day so you can post a lookout and have a gander at the furnishings of both the male and female bathrooms:
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She was very good at what she did; but arguably an exemplar of the âDo you want to design buildings that win awards or design good buildings?â issue that architecture has an ugly time grappling with. And she won a lot of awards.
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When I visited, I was less than enthused with the way the current caretakers are handling upkeep and preservation of Fallingwater. They were clearly trying to arrange things on shelves âartisticallyâ but it came off as goofy much of the time. And it struck me as very weird that throughout the tour they kept stressing their attention to preserving things âexactly as Wright wantedâ and that everything in the house and on the grounds was kept to his specifications⌠but then they cheerfully invited people into the Wright-designed garage wing thatâd been converted into gift shop and meeting space (just like Wright wanted?)
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Oh no, itâs very well known that Wright designed points of sale locations in all his private homes in case they later wanted to open a gift shop.
However, he typically put it in the mud room, I donât know whatâs going on with the garage idea.
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Are you trying to make classicists cry? If lead-sweetened wine was good enough for the Romans, surely it should be good enough for us!
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Me and my stepdad were in the process of renovating and finishing out one of those sheds since the home we lived in at the time was too small and brick so unable to easily be added onto properly. Ended up moving, but it was nice (up until drywall. God I hate drywall.)
Yeah, I like those too. I have no idea how well they hold up over time but it seems like a good use of space-- I always used to hang out on the roof of my old place even though it wasnât made for that purpose.
Are Earth Ships considered âutopian architecture?â Or are they more like âdystopianâ since they are the last gasp of a crumbling civilization trying to survive in a slowly dying world?
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I was juuuuuust about to post about Earthships. I absolutely consider them utopian architecture â just like the other examples here, theyâre designed to solve a problem (efficient, low-cost housing) by utilizing inexpensive materials to make something extraordinary. Only instead of poured concrete, they use old tires filled with dirt and crushed pop-cans covered in adobe. Unfortunately a lot of people whoâve built them have found that their claims (self-sufficiency, passive cooling & heating, incredibly low building cost, durability) donât always work out so well. Iâm sort of entranced by them, though, and would love to visit or stay in one someday.
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I toured it when I was 13 or 14 (itâs all of about 12 miles from where my grandparents lived). It was quite the sprawling attraction. Again, you have the concrete furniture problem, in spite of the warmer feel of a FLW disciple having designed it.
Drove through Wrightâs model home park, it was OK.
@GilbertWham: IIRC, thereâs a doomsday device in there somewhere, but youâll be damned to find it among all the busy kitch.
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