A Conversation with Frank Lloyd Wright (1953)

"Honest arrogance or hypocritical humility.."

Light Years Ahead of His Time !!! An Absolute Genius !!!....

I just love the Man & it is so good to see him explain his art.

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Ty. I came here for an architecture lesson and got a life lesson. I always liked Frank Lloyd Wright, and now I know why.

in half an hour

Hugh Downs was never outclassed as an interviewer nor outclassed by his interviewees. His body language was always relaxed and his queries and comments delivered in a calm and interested manner. Just the tops.

I just got back from Taliesin, Wright's Spring Green, Wisconsin, home. Walking through it, I FELT his conception of "organic" in my body. I was indoors and outdoors simultaneously. It was deeply inspiring.

I always wondered why he was so famous. Now I know.

I realize he is fairly old here, but I didn't imagine him to be so "wooden". Maybe he was slightly intimidated by the cameras. Great stuff, and thanks!

I'm astonished at how composed, well-spoken and witty he is. He is not just a great architect but a great orator and storyteller. He does not need to pause and hem and haw, his words are delivered as beautifully as his structures.

6 days ago I learned that my great grandfather worked directly under frank as a pupil and my grandfather under his father. My grandfather James gehr helped build the art fairs of brookfield and many of the museums of art in Wisconsin.
I never knew who frank lyod Wright was beyond some of his work until this week. But knowing that he is the reason my great grandfather and grandfather found dedication and passion and passed those inprirations onto me makes this video all that more inspiring ❤️

It's unknown to many but Taliesin west architecture school is gone forever.
Perhaps the biggest loss of the 2020 gain of function viral leak.

You cannot build Falling Water today over that water fall

Talking about man who has traveled thru time and was a genius to adapt. Great at age 22 and even greater at age 82

It was good till the ending part which blasted me out of my seat.

First, Hugh Downs did not interrupt the person he was interviewing like so many on TV do today. He let Wright give his answers. Hugh Downs, great job and great career! There is almost a sense of disappointment in Wrights voice that he did not get his engineering degree. What most people like to say when they walk through a Wright design is they would want a house "just like this"! Which is exactly what they would not get if Wright were designing a house for them. They would get a house that fit the lot, ground or site that you had purchased and Wright would understand the clients needs or your needs as well. In that way an organic structure that fit the site, the natural products of the area and the clients needs. There was "no need for a steeple" in the church he designed as the roof pointed to the heavens and the space inside brought light in which in Wrights words is the "great beautifier of the building"! The other thing that struck me was that Wright did not consider himself a "teacher" but rather an "exemplar". Would be architects marched to Taliesin to learn from him but not all them had an artistic instinct. As Wright said it can't be taught. The SC Johnson Wax building built in a urban area has no windows to the outside but light from above inside the tall trees (concrete columns) is where light floods into the work space. The employees loved their building even though it leaked! In short listen and take notes and you might learn something!

A remarkable pioneer of introspective nature inspired architecture in great conviction with reverence. If humans weren't so greed driven preoccupied with mindless pursuits we may have avoided destroying our planet.

The man was a rebel first, a founding father second and an Architect third. O how great it is that his ideas did not take over.

When everyone is special, nobody is special...

RIP Frank Lloyd Wright