[Info-vax] Completely OT: Frank Lloyd Wright

[brad]

On 2012-10-06, Dirk Munk <munk at home.nl> wrote:
> Yesterday there was a news item on Dutch TV news (all day long!) that a 
> project developer in Phoenix wants to demolish a house designed and 
> build by Frank Lloyd Wright. He built this house in 1952 for his son 
> David. As you will know (I hope) Frank Lloyd Wright was one of the 
> gratest architects that ever lived, not only in the U.S., but anywhere. 
> I'm a very big fan of his work, and it is incomprehensible to me that it 
> would be allowed to demolish any building designed by him, let alone 
> this house that is regarded to be one of his ten best designs. In Europe 
> this would be a listed building and you couldn't even point your finger 
> at it without permission. Will you please help to stop this act of 
> cultural barbarism and sign the petition on this website?
>
> <http://www.change.org/petitions/
   city-of-phoenix-save-the-david-and-gladys-wright-house>
>
Cultural barbarism or no, this is not the first of his houses in the US be
destroyed, by a long shot.  I join you in your admiration of his work, but
some of his houses suffered from flaws in design and construction.  Others
have been destroyed, because the folks who bought the house/property didn't
like the building, and wanted to have their own vision in place.

I guess that here in the US, property ownership trumps all.

I wonder - if he had VMS to help him design his buildings, perhaps they might
still be standing today.

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