I don’t know if I’ve ever been in a Frank Lloyd Wright building. The only possibility is the Guggenheim Museum in New York. I know I walked past that one, but I can’t remember if I went inside.
Anyway, this is the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio building in Oak Park, Illinois. I have a friend who’s an architect who visited it and he picked me up a bookmark. Which, as you know, is the next best thing to being there.
Book: Modern Architecture by Alan Colquhoun
Alex Good 
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Can’t see that will have a look when I get home from work.
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Ah got it now 😀
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What are you still doing working so much!
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Yeah I know, Phil says the same. Im covering for Lynn for a couple of days this week and next week, but I like doing it. I’ll still do that even after I’ve finally retired in 4 weeks time!
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I think that’s wise. Good to keep your hand in things a bit.
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The only kind of architecture I can point to and say “that is Type X architecture” is the brutalist kind. It definitely lives up to its name. I can “see” other types, but haven’t a clue what they are called.
At first I thought you were talking about Andrew Lloyd Webber and I was wondering how architecture was related to music. People really shouldn’t use middle names, it confuses segments of the population 😉
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You think that’s confusing? Try pronouncing the last name of the book author! : -)
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That was a Lost Cause 😉
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I think it must be Scottish. I was looking at it wondering too.
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For what it’s worth, it’s apparently pronounced ka-HOON. But there are variations.
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Yeah, Brutalist just means ugly block of cement to me. But I know people see something in it.
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It doesn’t do a thing for me, that’s for sure. Not sure I could handle a city full of that kind of architecture.
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I remember going into that crooked house at Six Flags where water runs uphill. I’m pretty sure that was a Frank Lloyd Wright house. Flying Water, right?
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Fallingwater. I have a bookmark from there too! I’d love to visit that place.
Unless you mean a Splashworld attraction in Texas. That I don’t know. Not sure they have bookmarks.
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Well, I was kidding. : -)
But Casa Magnetica is (or was) a real attraction at Six Flags Over Texas and I really did go into it way back when I was a kid.
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I sort of figured the upward-flowing water was a joke, but I am going to post my Fallingwater bookmark at some point!
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No, that’s not the joke part. The water really does *appear to* run uphill. The joke part was saying it was a Frank Lloyd Wright house and calling it Flying Water instead of fallingwater.
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Ahhh.
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