Frank Lloyd Wright and Mid-century America: the Car, the Suburb, and "Googie" Architecture

Professor David Brownlee explores the context and social environment which influenced Wright's work and directly impacted the design of Beth Sholom Synagogue. Using Wright's original designs and sketches, as well as examples of automobiles and other influences, this lecture is an opportunity to appreciate Wright's work through the lens of the 1950's.
University of Pennsylvania Professor David Brownlee is an historian of modern architecture whose interests embrace a wide range of subjects in Europe and America, from the late eighteenth century to the present.

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Удивительная лекция! Большое спасибо!

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Inspirational

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A brilliant lecture. Brownlee explains how in the 20th century cars and rapid population growth transformed farmland into concrete and asphalt grids for open-sky living. Tastes changed from appreciating the clothes and jewelry decorating human bodies to appreciating the facads of homes and vehicles. The shallowness of Wright as evidenced by his multiple cars, wives, and homes carried into his showy, wasteful, and uncomfortable structures. He distracts from his and his clients' unattractive physical appearances by expanding the self into the structures the individual is seen in, A spiral ramp is a horrible way of displaying art, but it is showy. Covering a rushing stream with a terrace hides the beauty of nature in order to produce a showy magazine cover. It is ironic that Brownlee sees what a shallow person Wright was for an organization wishing to preserve a wasteful and pretentious building by Wright.

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Great video except the redlining and racism - the color of the skin had little to do with it - it was content of there character. I’ve been to every major city in North America and it’s the same story in all of the . Once great areas have been trashed and major violence. Just like it was prone to flooding - I would red line it. I lived in the most violent city in California but didn’t have to redline it was clear just by looking you didn’t want live in the area. Now you go into many of the same places to fix things and you are gentrifying and one still living there are outraged.