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tarkus10
Those of us who have experienced a bath room plumbing emergency got a chill at that first picture. "Honey, where's the water cut off valve???"!!!"
Jessebob42
Beautiful, but too many stairs. đ§
Wrenfield
I like the idea of it but the Midwest in me can only think "good luck bugproofing that".
Mortbise
Hope you REALLY trust whoever worked on the foundations
Subtilico
I have to pee plenty as it is, tyvm.
iamjackscompletelackofcompassion
Went there last year. Itâs kinda claustrophobic inside
Rijtjeshuis
Was it built in the 20s, but looks like it's from the 70s?
Then you know it's Frank Lloyd Wright.
dudeinjapan
âLooks like what 70s buildings tried to beâ, at least. Most of the time, they were low budget, crappy materials only, cheap knockoffs of Wrightâs ideas. I was involved in a lot of retrofit/remodels of 70s buildings and it was a pain in the ass due to the cheapness of buildings in that era.
mikeatike
Good thing overpriced houses aren't built like shit anymore... oh wait.
badgesweedontneednostinkingbadges
I look at this and think, very pretty in mid-summer, but what about early spring when that stream the house was built over is in flood stage?
charondaboatman
Iâve been. Itâs beautiful, but more art than home. It has issues and the built ins arenât particularly user friendly or comfortable. But, it is beautiful. His purposeful designs to integrate his buildings into the landscapes when possible is pretty cool.
skipweasel
Maintainance hasn't always been simple. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallingwater#Preservation
Quaxx
Must be real loud hearing the waterfall all the time - isn`t it?
somethingstupidandclever
For me it was amazing. I get over stimulated and running water, especially naturally running water, makes it all better. Also FLW is the reason i got into art and furniture design. I feel like we would have gotten along.
mikeatike
WHAT?
MaxIn
I love his houses but would hate living in them
AjKaramba
Nope. Not even great architecture should be allowed to interfere with a waterfall.
mikeatike
I got bad news about ever dam ever built.
welluhwhatdoyouwantmetosay
The owners called it "Rising Mildew".
BurntHamsteaks
I got the Lego set years agoâŚpretty cool build!
SayRamrod
not afraid to repost your reposts, i see
Thisisallyourfault
I was supposed to go see this with my family, but mask mandates were still in place so my parents refused to go and canceled the trip. Weeeeee!
SwiftyGuy
Well, itâs better to be safe :).
Thisisallyourfault
It's moreso they refused to wear masks during the entire pandemic. My grandparents and I did though cuz we ain't assholes.
jgjgjgjgjgjgjg
I don't recall giving permission to come photograph my house. I will forgive you this one time only, though, okay?
DecapodianSaysWoopWoopWoopWoop
Mosquitos.
bekindtoanimals
In Wisconsin
Kinkyboinick
in Pennsylvania...unlike the other Wright works that are in WI
bekindtoanimals
Oh! Thanks for clarifying!
awildsforzemon
Mmmm, cantilevers.
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PanNonOpticon
Never order a house plan drom famous architect unless you want to live in a museum where nothing can be changed.
johnvilnis
Buy the house and starting living there and within 2 weeks start complaining about the âdamned sound of running water while I try to sleep.â
quietwalker
Ever sit in any of his chairs? He thought that the best way to sit was with your rear end close to your heels and your knees at least mid-chest, and a slight backwards lean. Some of the least comfortable chairs that ever there were.
Personally, I think that too much value was given to his celebrity and not enough to the usability of much of his work.
mikeatike
A Google image search for "flw chair" has some wild results.
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MacKelvey
Iâm more of a Frank Furness fan myself
ThisOldCPU
Slandering the dead when the real story is already known? Your application for Disinformation Minister has been received and will immediately go to the top of the pile.
ChloeRed
Its not slander. it would be libel if you could libel the dead.
charondaboatman
Are you talking about Taliesin? That was his mistress and the handyman Julian Carlton did it after serving them lunch. He poured gas on the floor, lit it and attacked them with an axe, and then attacked workers at the house. He was found hiding in the basement and starved himself for 6 weeks afterwards and died. His wife testified he had been acting paranoid and sleeping with an axe prior to the attack. Wright was in Chicago at the time.
ElbowDeepInUserSub
Cl;early Frank arranged that whole thing! /s
MusicPenguin
For some reason I'm thinking about Minecraft.
YeahNoForSure
Every house I build
In Minecraft turns into this eventually.
canadaslittlereader
Is this the house from Ex Machina?
wodensday
Yep
Kimmykix
a house plagued by constant mold and rot problems because as it turns out, Frank Lloyd Wright was a great designer, but not a great engineer.
fartyandbloated
Apparently this is very common with his buildings.
fightkostka6
its more of that it was designed in 6 hours by his students. He literally was drawing it while the students made the plans. When the client showed up to check on the process (client was waiting for a year, but saw no progress so he telegramed wright that he is gonna visit him in few hours and wright started to work on it in panic and called his students for "practice in a field") the drawing was finished when he ringed the doorbell and paint was still wet
NeverDownvoteMelBrooks
I'd argue the ergonomic, material selection, and engineering errors make him more artist than designer.
MosquitoHawker
I saw in a show about this structure that the family jokingly called it âRisingmildew.â
bokodasu
Every time I look at pictures of Fallingwater I can just feel the damp, it kind of ruins the artistic part for me. (Unless you want to argue that art is about making you feel things, and Frank Lloyd Wright wanted me to feel "uncomfortably clammy", in which case, success.)
gypsyspot
I don't recall it being overly clammy. I'm inclined to agree that it's probably not suitable for a functioning building, however, the wet wasn't immediately pervasive when I was there. maybe just more problematic over the lifespan of a building.
bokodasu
It's not, but they put a LOT of effort into keeping it dry. It can only be a museum, a normal homeowner wouldn't have time to do anything but upkeep their house. I'm a Bauhaus lady at heart, if the form doesn't follow the function then it's not a good form.
gypsyspot
that is reasonable