It never ceases to amaze me how Wright's style was so ahead of the times. A lot of people immediately think the houses are mid-50's but they're in fact 20 to 30 years earlier! If you happen to be driving through somewhere near one of the houses that are under conservancy[1] they are well worth a stop.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Frank_Lloyd_Wright_wor...

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frantathefranta 4 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

It's really amusing when you tour something like Casa Loma[0] in Toronto (a gothic revival house) and then compare it to the Darwin Martin house[1] in Buffalo, which was built basically 10 years before. I can't imagine visiting a FLW house in the early 1900s and then building a super kitschy castle.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casa_Loma

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_D._Martin_House

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phlakaton 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

45 years earlier in some cases. I found the Robie House in Chicago (built in 1910!) to be a total head-trip.

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allknowingfrog 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Isn't Wright sort of famous for designing structures that leak when it rains? My understanding is that Falling Water House is a beautiful money pit.

	▲	Aurornis 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Falling Water was an engineering disaster, but it was a unique project for him. Most of his houses are not like that.
	▲	TremendousJudge 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		well, it's often said that all good architecture leaks [0] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0j0d2ymixY

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CGMthrowaway 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

FLW created the times

	▲	UncleOxidant 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There's something similar in cinema. For example, I was watching Terrance Malick's Badlands for the first time a couple of years ago and I could swear it felt like a film from the 90s or maybe early 2000s. But it was from 1973.