Rosenbaum House - Frank Lloyd Wright in Alabama

Mimi Rosenbaum tells the story of her and her husband hiring famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1939 to build a home in Florence, Alabama.

[@barrymoore4470]

A most informative presentation, with the now late Mrs. Rosenbaum such a delight to see and hear, an impeccable witness of so much detailed history.

[@sidneysisk225]

Thanks. I appreciate the serious Architect talking about the existing "derivative" local houses. Unusual. It is disconcerting to talk about Prarie School without emphasising the other Architects. Some (I believe) better than Wright both as Architects and persons. Remarkable also: so many Jewish clients for a man who was America First, the early fascist movement. Perkins and Will, Purcell Elmslie and Feick [probably this 3 man firm the VERY best of all], Smith Garden and Erickson (I lived in a Hugh Garden house in Chicago), Maher, Griffin, Van Alen and many others. Read H. Allen Brooks' (who I knew at Yale) fine book on all of them for perspective. Wright survived longer than most. Some of his work is wonderful....this house is just plain "ugly"...what does this mean? George Howe brought Wright to Yale to teach for a while as he did with Bucky Fuller. Two great egotists. Mary Elizabeth Spies Droste, an Architect, entertained him in Chicago along with Mies and Bertrand Goldberg and , I think, Fred Keck. They all "got along"....all great egotists.... enjoying and immersed in their notoriety. (I was the houseboy with a white shirt and a leather bow tie serving dinner). In NYC I became friends with Edgar Tafel one of his long time "apprentices" who never recovered from the experience but --with some setbacks--did significant work: not in Wright style but in his own. I used to study in the Robie House which was owned by U/Chi at the time and open to all. It took me many years to realise that the Arts and Craft Style (age 93 / 350 buildings) in a modest form is the true American style: it does no harm to the neighborhood or community. That's what I tried to do as an Architect. (Sometimes succeeded).

[@PhilipODette]

But he did so much more. For instance, he created Taliesin and Taliesin West.

[@slothdawg1547]

Who is here because of Penny and Sparrow?

[@rikeshpatel6414]

My school teacher at Muscle Shoals told us she gave Frank Lloyd a blowie back in the day

[@sidneysisk225]

I am often a little vulgar but this is going a little far. Wright had a crude way of speaking and was hated by everyone one who worked for him from the 1910's thru the 20's. He was sneaky and a liar (documented) with a lot of charm. When he established his so-called school it was filled with psychophants. Stalin's daughter much later landed there. He left his office to Van Alen when he went to Japan. Van Alen completed a very beautiful (church) and other stuff. When Wright returned he had it all torn down and rebuilt it himself. Spiteful, I guess.

[@rikeshpatel6414]

IDGAF 😂

[@sharksport01]

When was this filmed?

[@falconpicturespresents6967]

2000

[@barrymoore4470]

@@falconpicturespresents6967 The work bears the copyright date of 1998, a year before the house ceased to be a private residence and became a public museum maintained by the city of Florence.

[@PhilipODette]

I think of Frank Lloyd Wright as being associated with Fallingwater, Pennsylvania. ❤

[@barrymoore4470]

@@PhilipODette He definitely is, that probably being the most famous of his residential designs.