The visionary American architect was born 150 years ago today.
http://flwright.org/aboutus/wright150
Please post a picture of a favorite Wright work - repeats of a particular structure are fine, but try to show a different image from those already posted. Fallingwater has long been a personal favorite of mine:
You got mine. Falling Water is just stunning.
For some reason, I also find the interior at Johnson Wax to be rather interesting.
I became a fan after visiting his design school in Spring Green, WI.
Things I learned on that day: NEVER combine a visit to FLW works with a visit to House on the Rock on the same day (or maybe even the same week, or month). The cognitive dissonance was almost fatal.
What on earth is the House on the Rock? Is it a resort? The pictures of the place look ‘busy’.
I always liked The Robie House.
I made a 3-d exterior replica of it on AutoCad for a project back in my architecture school days.
Psychotically, busy, yes.
If you search for threads on the place, you’ll find a few. With my comments about my experience in them.
Resort? I’d resort to arson, personally.
FLWs Taliesen West is prairie style architecture.
The House On the Rock is like stepping into a Terry Gilliam movie.
When I lived in Madison , Wisconsin, I lived down the street from the Unitaian Curch in Shorewood Hills. There weren’t/are many houses in the area designed by students of his.
no, not nearly enough ductwork
They just redid Unity Temple (and are now looking for the $ to pay for it!)
I’m kinda partial, since it is a UU building. Pretty awesome, right on a main suburban street.
My wife and I, and her best friend, are huge fans of Prairie style. Both of our houses reflect many aspects of it. But the other day we were in their living room, and they were discussing a recent visit to Taliesin (sp?), and I realized I was - uh - somewhat blase about Wright. Weird, because I really appreciate it, but I almost feel that I’ve ODed on Wright. Born and raised on the NW side of Chicago, still spend a ton of time in Oak Park. Since I was a REALLY little kid, I recognized Wright and Prairie was my favorite style. Just kinda weird. I still love it, but I don’t feel a need to go out of my way to visit any sites or read any more books…
It’s sometimes amusing to encounter people who don’t understand what Wright was trying for. Like, they’ll see Falling Water, and assume that blocky rectangles were “his style”. Rather, he didn’t really have one style of his own, but was always fitting his buildings into their environment. Falling Water fits in, in a shale riverbed, but wouldn’t on the open prairie.
I like the Guggenheim Museum. https://www.nyc-arts.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/guggenheim-museum-arch490.jpg (SDMB isn’t letting me highlight?)
I like the space age look of it, but I really like the interior, it’s a large spiral, with a skylight, lots of light and air. http://www.interestingamerica.com/images/NY_images/Manhattan/Guggenheim/Guggenheim_Museum_NY_interior_across_and_down_Petra_Klaassen_426.png
My parents were big fans of Wright, they got to see Fallingwater before I was born, so I didn’t get to see it. They did take me to the Guggenheim when I was little. I remember we went to the top and walked down the spiral so we saw a Calder exhibit in reverse. I have a bunch of books about him that I inherited.
I also like his (never built) superskyscraper, The Illinois:
http://www.jmhdezhdez.com/2013/06/mile-high-tower-wright-illinois.html (scroll down)
This hotel in Mason City, Iowa is the only Wright-designed hotel you can stay in. It’s great – especially waking up, surrounded by Wrightesque details – but I wouldn’t say it’s my favorite of his works.
His Imperial Hotel in Tokyo was demolished, alas.
The other FLW hotel you CAN sleep in – a smallish skyscraper (one of his few, another being that Johnson Wax mentioned above) in Bartlesville, Oklahoma – was originally an office building (Price Tower). It’s great, too! All triangles.
I’ll come up with an actual favorite in a bit (Robie House was taken).
I’ll go with the Hollyhock House. No one picture does it justice, so I linked to an architectural plan – but do a Google image search. Sort of Mayanesque exterior, but Prairie interior – and nice use of outdoor spaces, as befits its location.
I just read that the Hollyhock House was one of the few where Wright didn’t supervise the construction, and thus maybe wasn’t responsible for some of the details. Maybe I should pick a different one! (I’ve never visited the house).
Okay, this is it, I promise: the Armstrong House in Indiana, a Usonian style (1939) house in the woods with less expensive materials and details than his Prairie period homes, but similar striking cantilevers, horizontal window bands, earthy tones, and innovations for automobile.
Here’s one more photo of the Armstrong House, showing how its sections follow the contours of the hill. The sections are rotated from each other at different angles; but nothing feels forced.
My wife grew up in Riverside (a neat suburb, designed by FL Olmstead), where there were some notable Wright homes. I asked her if she had ever been in any of them, and she said, “XXX lived in the Avery Coonley house. We smoked A LOT of pot in that house!” 
I read that he designed the Hause House, but, sadly, it was never built.
