Well, his Imperial Hotel in Tokyo was knocked down to make way . . .Nonc Hilaire wrote:Wright was a famous early F*head. Fallingwater was so loud the owner couldn't live in it. Wright's stool designed for the receptionist at the Johnson Wax building was so stylish the receptionist kept falling over. People still must stand at a weird angle to view works in the screwy part of the Guggenheim.
Still, I'm partial to many of the concepts espoused by the Prairie School back in a time when most people of means were building faux castles,
the forerunners of today's McMansions.
I don't know if it has always been the case, but there now seems to a set of celebrity architects that can do no wrong:
Hadid, LIebskind, Gehry, Starck [creator of the infamous Golden Turd of Tokyo],
and a few others.
Just as it was once true that "no one gets fired for buying IBM", it now seems that in architecture no selection committee is ever fired
for choosing one of the celebchitect submissions to a competition.
However, the committee who chose Hadid's design for the 2020 Olympic Stadium should be fired:
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When I first saw the presentation, the first thought that came to mind was US$ 1 billion for Godzilla's bicycle helmet?