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Pastimes : A CENTURY OF LIONS/THE 20TH CENTURY TOP 100

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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (608)10/21/1999 10:34:00 AM
From: Raymond Clutts   of 3246
 
Well in Falling Water, plumbing would be a cinch but you'd have to give up on the basement home theatre. Actually, speaking as someone who had an architect as a college roommate-they're all delusional and a lack of closets is one of the milder forms of deprivation they regard as routine. From what I recall of Wright, he also hated garages and refused to incorporate them in any residential architecture that he designed.

Not exactly a rational perspective on the balance between beauty and functionality.

Architects are would be artists endowed with too much spatial facility and too little color perception. They are too enthralled by their creative muse to realize that someone is actually going to live in their pretty renderings.

You may be able to tell that I am in the process of hiring an architect for a new home we're about to build and I'm getting a little annoyed at the same pretentious attitudes that I'm sure Wright displayed like many others. It's a funny profession where you try to find someone who has talent in both the left brained engineering and the right brain aesthetic functions.
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