First up, Dwell shares an arresting stop-motion video of a shape-shifting house in Washington State’s San Juan Islands (above). Next, Furniture Fashion slingshots us halfway around the world to the stunning city-within-a-city inside Tokyo called Roppongo Hills for an aerial architectural glimpse that’s kind of giving us vertigo: Late-19th century and early-20th century design junkies [...]
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Frank Lloyd Wright: A Brief History Lesson
Frank Lloyd Wright was many things in his day: an architect, writer, teacher, rumored shirker of debts, reputed flirt and even reported philanderer. Stories of his larger-than-life ego and sometimes brusque personality were likely due in part to the title bestowed upon him rather early on in his career: that of “America’s best architect.” Prolific [...]
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A Brief History Lesson on The Guggenheim, NYC
Humorously enough, when famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright was asked to design the Guggenheim Museum in New York City (one of five such museums standing today; the others are in Venice, Bilbao, Berlin and Abu Dhabi), he turned his nose up at the locale, citing his distaste for the city he thought “was overbuilt, overpopulated [...]
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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater – iconic home with spacious interior
Built in 1935, Fallingwater was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, a modern country house for the Kaufmann family, a spacious interior design which was dynamic for its time. A design which exemplifies Wright’s concept of ‘Organic Architecture,’ the home was built over a small stream in Western Pennsylvania. It seeks to harmonize the occupants with [...]
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