Matt2 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 16, 2021 10:12 am
I was first introduced to Wright's work via the Prairie work which I found captivating. Then I found the Usonians and felt they were just as spacially complex, but cleaner and neater. No fussy details that would be difficulty to keep clean. I think Wright was always wrestling with the instinct to decorate a building with beaux arts details. What the Prairie works do have that Usonians often lack is street appeal. The Prairies are often two story with a gable roof on top and have a stately presence that rivals anything the beaux arts styles had.
Well, I don't think that usonians are neater, in fact the houses with triangle, hexagon, circle grids are interesting, beautiful but hard to live. It's difficult to change the bed position or add some furniture, or move some furniture due to its geometries. But usonians are cleaner of course, it is a synthetis of the prairie period, with less ornamentation, less lines, less materials.
I'm completely agree with you, the prairie houses has a stately presence when you see from the street and inmediately you see its neibors and you think those houses are a joke. Most of usonians lacks of presence from the street beause all the house goes to the back.
