Reply #38: Look at Frank Lloyd Wright - mad as a hatter [View All]

[Canuckistanian]

A walking ego trip with a disastrous personal life. His arrogance knew no bounds.

But I heard how he designed Fallingwater, what a work of genius! He picked out a site, had it surveyed down to the last rock and thought about the design for several months. And all this time he never put a single idea down on paper.

Finally, the client asked if he could come over and see the plans. Wright agreed. The meeting was to be the next day. In three hours, working almost entirely from memory, he created the complex cantilevered balconies, the interior with it's natural rock hearth and all the strucural drawings.

Amazing.