Last weekend I got the priviledge to tour one of America's great architectural monuments. Although built over 50 years ago, I witnessed detail after detail of construction elements that would greatly challenge even our best craftsman of today. He blew the budget, almost doubling the clients intended investment. It took longer than hoped to construct no doubt due to the ways he was stretching the craftsmans engineering and material applications. The architectural structure has required modifications since construction to be able to stand the test of time. Yet beyond all these ways in which I measure my own success on a project- it is amazing! Truly a tribute to great design. Beyond all these "incidentals" (:)), his vision was utterly brilliant and the ability to have client and craftsman embrace his perceptively impossible ideas gives me profound hope for the possibilities. Here's to you Frank!
Friday, July 23, 2010
Frank Lloyd Wright's Falling Water
Last weekend I got the priviledge to tour one of America's great architectural monuments. Although built over 50 years ago, I witnessed detail after detail of construction elements that would greatly challenge even our best craftsman of today. He blew the budget, almost doubling the clients intended investment. It took longer than hoped to construct no doubt due to the ways he was stretching the craftsmans engineering and material applications. The architectural structure has required modifications since construction to be able to stand the test of time. Yet beyond all these ways in which I measure my own success on a project- it is amazing! Truly a tribute to great design. Beyond all these "incidentals" (:)), his vision was utterly brilliant and the ability to have client and craftsman embrace his perceptively impossible ideas gives me profound hope for the possibilities. Here's to you Frank!
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