Something Special, thanks to Aeon
This morning another gift arrived from Aeon
Of course Aeon were only forwarding something already out there in YouTube land,
but I probably would not have come across it except for the friendly service of Aeon
which has often sent me these rare gifts and now I forward this to my friends:
Not everyone is able to live in such a splendid creation as this spectacular house
built by Frank Lloyd Wright. Billions of humans alive on the planet today live in
hovels, or tents, and have no proper place to call home.
This is one of the great conundrums of my life: how do we reconcile these two extremes?
Even though we are all aware of this polarity in human existence, I still favour the
trailblazers who show us there are other ways humans can live, if they have the right
sort of economic conditions and political leadership.
Sadly we live in a world where political leadership seems bent upon destruction of
people and their homes, even their hovels and tents, and where global economies are
hell bent upon devasting the planet.
"Is a puzzlement!"
pt
Puzzling yes but those buildings Frank Lloyd Wright created, not all for the super rich, are extraordinary testimony to one man's vision, sense of beauty. Strangely though many were so complicated that they never ironed out things like leaks and deteriorating materials.
ReplyDeleteShort and sweet post, Pete.
ReplyDeleteAl the anonymouses, who's talking?
ReplyDeleteGeoff Gardner...
DeleteWell, Hello Geoff, thanks, PT
ReplyDeleteEXTRA!
ReplyDeleteEven though I first saw this film in 1959 or 1960, I had always assumed that the house in Hitchcock's "North By Northwest" had been designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, but recently I learned that it was only inspired by his "Fallingwater" house. For those who are interested, this link covers the connections very well indeed:
https://www.productiondesignerscollective.org/single-post/2016/06/12/connecting-the-dots-the-vandamm-house-in-north-by-northwest
I'm a very slow learner!
pt
There are other things we can say about housing in this day and age although I suppose most readers of this blog would own outright their own homes and not have any problems whatsoever, but some of us still do. Nevertheless, Frank Lloyd Wright's designs were wonderful and always inspired me as a very young architecture student (who never went any further because he won a national short story award and so took a very different path through life - fortunately, or unfortunately depending on your point of view).
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