Sunday, April 30, 2023

Fallingwater

 Frank Lloyd Wright has been heralded as one of the greatest architects of all time. He was a pioneer in the Prairie School of architecture and designed over 1000 structures over a period of 70 years. Wright not only designed buildings, he designed the furniture to go in these structures. While I admire his talent and I find his work interesting, it really doesn't ring my bell. The furniture always seems rather uncomfortable and the houses that I've visited, with few exceptions, don't seem to be very livable. That said, for some reason, I never seem to pass on visiting a FLW building. Fallingwater, located in Mill Run Pennsylvania checks all of my reasons that I don't care for the architecture, but boy – this place is stunning.

Wright designed the building in 1935. After its completion, Time called Fallingwater Wright's “most beautiful job” and it is listed among Smithsonian's “Life List of 28 Places to See Before You Die”. The house has been designated a National Historic Landmark.








I made a couple of stops in Columbus, Ohio. In 1884, George Seurat painted the famous painting “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte”.



In 1989, two Columbus artists, James and Elaine Mason built a topiary garden designed to depict figures from Seurat's painting.




Arnold Schwarzenegger 
He won the Mr. World Professional Bodybuilding contest in Columbus in 1970


As We Are” is also in Columbus. It is known locally as “the giant head”. It is a 14-foot LED sculpture that has a photo booth inside the neck. Once a person's image is captured in 3D, the portrait is displayed on the sculpture within a couple of minutes. It is distinctly uncomfortable seeing yourself as a very public 14-foot tall head.


This is the closest that you are going to see my picture.  



Interesting - when building a new building, they kept the original building face







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