Frank Lloyd Wright on incompetent engineers
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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!
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@PaulWichmann I believe it was Santiago Calatrava who took engineering courses. It is one example.
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what is a genius
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@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"
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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.
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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.
@PaulWichmann I think you're unaware of Wright's intentionally polemic attitude.
KeeperOfProphecies 11 months ago 4
@PaulWichmann Wright validates his position in two examples "Falling Water" and the pedestals in the Johnson Wax Factory -engineers said "It wouldn't work!
rbcdesign 5 months ago 2