Posted on 05/30/2009 5:34:23 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
A buyer had commissioned "Falling Water". Time passed and the buyer became concerned about Wright's apparent inactivity. He called and announced that he would be driving to Taliesan to view the drawings. Wright agreed..and drew what had been brewing in his mind since viewing the site while the buyer was en route.
K'nay!
Grew up about 3 blocks from a FLW designed home.
Went to Wichita State University, the Education Dept. is an a FLW designed building.
This is cool stuff!
I grew up hearing this my whole life, and I took it at face value.
Then one day I finally went to see Fallingwater: for the life of me, I couldn't understand in what universe this vaguely Mediterranean pinkish-peach (!) rectangular monstrosity was said to have "blended into the natural environment." It stuck out and stuck out hideously--and the fact that it was weirdly perched over the stream didn't give it any points in my book.
All around where I grew up in Eastern PA there are old farmhouses built out of native stone, some from the 1700s. Every last one of them, IMHO, harmonizes better with its surroundings than Fallingwater. I ain't an architect, but I think I know the natural surroundings of my home state...and I don't think FLW captured them very well at all. Just my two cents. :)
The Marin County Civic Center was also the scene of this outrage.
Marin County Courthouse Shootout
August 7, 1970. In an attempt to free his brother, imprisoned Black Panther leader George Jackson, 17-year old Jonathan Jackson entered a courthouse in Marin County, California with an arsenal of weapons. After storming into a room where a trial was taking place, Jackson armed defendant James McClain, who was on trial for murdering a prison guard, and two fellow convicts who were participating in the trial as witnesses, William Christmas and Ruchell Magee.
The four armed men then took the judge, a district attorney and three jurors hostage, and marched them out of the courthouse into a waiting getaway van.
As they attempted to flee the scene, a shootout broke out between the hostage takers and Marin County Sheriffs deputies providing security at the courthouse. By the end of the gun battle, Jackson, McClain, Christmas, and judge Harold Haley were killed. According to the other hostages, Haley was executed by the hostage takers with a shotgun that had been taped to his throat.
Magee was severely injured, but survived the battle and was sentenced to life in prison. One Juror and the D.A. were also wounded. One of the weapons used by Jackson was later traced to Black Panther icon Angela Davis, who was later tried (but acquitted) for participation in the crime.
Deaths: Suspects: 3; Hostages: 1
Ah, to have the black radicals in the forefront again! Fight the power ! /s
Hey, have you heard the theory that Doyle is a “gov. gone wild” with this budget, because he is not running for re-election? Makes sense to me. He doesn’t care who he ticks off, because he’s getting an Obamination appointment to some cushy job in Washington. Sounds plausible. He is so bad! Recently, democrats I know have said they hate him. Even my liberal neighbor proclaimed he thinks Doyle is a dork. Looks good for Walker in 2010.
See ya at the Capitol on the 4th of July! I’ll be wearing a Freeper t-shirt. Probably holding the flag the hubby got from the Air Force. Me and my one and only real conservative friend will be there, one on each end of the flag.
Not nearly as interesting as the Escher in Lego stuff, but pretty cool lookin’.
I hope the Lego model is more structurally sound than the original. It would have already fallen down if it had been originally built to Wright’s specs; even so, it has required millions in structural reinforcement.
My grade school teacher (this was in Yankeeland) said that they marketed them in the South as “Pioneer Logs.”
Or get out the blowtorch and build some Frank Gehry.
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