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Structurally
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| Architecture
- the other art form. As far back as ancient Greece mankind has built fanciful
structures in which to live, work, think and play. These structures have
taken on a multitude of shapes and forms, sculpting city skylines and rural
landscapes. What man chooses to build and where he chooses to build it
is as much a reflection of his soul as what he chooses to paint. I do not
pretend to be an art major, nor a student of architecture; hence, the list
below may fall short in artistic terms. It is simply my own idea of the
best and worst of architecture.
Spurs Up: FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT: The greatest architect that ever lived. I have been a fan of Wright since my earliest childhood memories, even though I did not see my first Wright building up close and personal until I was in my 30's. It was a picture of "Fallingwater" in Pennsylvania that I saw in an encyclopedia that caught my eye. I didn't know that his style of building had a name, but had I had to give it one, I could not have named it better - "organic architecture". Form follows function (and setting). Wright believed that a building must 1) have its own personality, 2) conform to its natural setting. His buildings did just that. THE FOUNTAINHEAD: Ayn Rand captures the essence of architecture in the form of fictional character, Howard Roark. Rand was quite impressed with the buildings of Frank L. Wright, loosely basing Roark's designs around his. Rand went to work for an architectual firm for the purpose of learning about the craft so that her novel might be technically accurate, but she expressed her own unique twists in the designs of Roark's buildings. Spurs Down: SUBURBIA:
The monotomous display of indistinguishable homes that line the streets
of 1000's of subdivisions surrounding all of the major cities throughout
our country.
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