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Frank Lloyd Wright1

he owners taste.QThe Wright Association is now selling blueprints of houses that you designed but were never built. The pottery-house was one of them, and the same blue print was sold twice. In this case what would you have done? Would have allowed both houses to be built or not and why?Many people at the association wondered what Wright would have done, they allowed both houses to be built because it was their mistake.QWhy did you open the school in Wisconsin?It was controversial when Wright started the school because he wanted it recognized as an institution of learning and the American Architects Society refused to except the school as an institute of learning. Q Why did you build the main area of the Guggenheim Museum as a ramp, seeing that you design everything for practical use?When you go into the Guggenheim you take an elevator or escalator to the top and then you walk down the ramp. I chose to analyze Falling Water at Bull Run, Pennsylvania.Falling Water was built for Edgar Kauffman in 1935. Wright went to see the land before he designed the house. He tied the house into the natural surroundings of the area using flat rock for the walls and textured cement. There are balconies over the waterfall to tie in the waterfall with the house. The furniture was designed by Wright to tie in the whole house which is a big open space centered around the fire place which has a huge river rock for a hearth. I chose to Analyze the Decaro house in Oak Park, Illinois. The Decaro house was a house that Wright built against his own reasoning. Afterwards he wished he hadnt built it in the first place because it didnt come from his heart. The house is built squarely like the Unity Temple also in Oak Park, Illinois. Like Wrights other work it was built for use and all extra ornamentation that had no purpose was left out. Wright probably, as he did with other houses, designed the furniture and the china and even the clothes of the...

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