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Frank Lloyd Wright on incompetent engineers

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"Taking common sense into the holy realm of art is a shocking thing and most unpopular in acedemic circles...but, after all, architecture is a scientific art, and the thinking basis will ever be for the architect his surety, and the final courts in which his imagination sifts his feelings."-FLW

"I wish it would dawn upon engineers that, in order to be an engineer, it is not enough to be an engineer."
--Jose Ortega y Gasset

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  • @PaulWichmann I think you're unaware of Wright's intentionally polemic attitude.

  • @PaulWichmann Wright validates his position in two examples "Falling Water" and the pedestals in the Johnson Wax Factory -engineers said "It wouldn't work!

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  • Architects are suppose to have 3d spatial reasoning skills while engineers don't. Who would you have do the designs of the interiors of your home? An engineer? Of course you are going to get an Architect!

  • @PaulWichmann I believe it was Santiago Calatrava who took engineering courses. It is one example.

  • what is a genius

  • @rbcdesign As a matter of fact it didn't.. the falling water has serious structural problems and had to go through some serious rehabilitation (of course planned and executed by engineers) to not have it's name change from "Falling Water" to "Falling Down"

  • No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder or engineer.

  • WRONG!!!!! engineers are not underdeveloped architects, its the other way around, architects rarely leave their stamp on drawings that require any rigorous mathematics without the aid and benefit of a qualified engineer. I don't know one architect that took the same courses required to become an engineer. Two different behaviors completely.

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