Was Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural vision sustainable?

[@OurChangingClimate]

What do you guys think about FLW's architectural style? Do you feel like his architectural vision would hold up to our current standards for sustainable building practices?

[@daleandrews367]

I quite simply adored his architectural style and designs. They were not only appealing to the eye, but were, as it is emphasized here, integrated with and complimented nature. Space here does not allow enough accolades about this man and his vision(s). Falling Water is a mere example of this. It is only one of finest examples of his architectural vision. Sheer genius.

[@bebeeru3066]

I think absolutely. His architecture style is very organic and he is one of a few architects that blends the surrounded landscape with architecture very well also most often paying attention to use natural light.

[@javierpacheco8234]

I would say yes but what i know is that all architecture in some form is sustainable. Sustainability always existed since it means built with the natural enviorment.

[@shanevonhoven4665]

I love that Mr Wright took risks and showed new engineering and architecture to a spiritual feeling! He was one hundred years ahead of his time!

[@hakanuriona]

Sure but FLW and many others didn’t know the eventual impact of automobiles 100 years ago... I’m pretty sure emissions weren’t even being brought up in the 1920-30s anyhow! I have a strong feeling if Frank we’re to be reincarnated to today, 2019, he would be a very sustainable designer. The fact the he used local materials only in most of his structures shows that he did genuinely care and I’m sure he thought about it in each design. Good video :)

[@JamesSmithYoutube]

Exactly.

[@mpetersen6]

In many ways people looked on the internal combustion engine as a blessing in the urban environment. Horses and their associated waste are not something we really want back 8n daily urban life. Yes there were other options. But judging the past entirely by todays standards is a losing game IMO.

[@CONCERTMANchicago]

Here in my neighborhood's of Oak Park, River Forest and Riverside Illinois. I was lucky to live amongst Frank Lloyd Wright, Jens Jensen, and Frederick law Olmsteds natural ecological, cultural architectural world. And also the reason why I became an American Treestorian. Their secret was to start with the open lots existing old growth trees, and design with their continued existence in mind. And also selecting new trees to add alongside the old by choosing locally evolved natives.

[@95GuitarMan13]

This was great! I'd love to see more architecture topics covered on this channel. Maybe you could identify the greenest buildings in the world, or explain some cutting edge technologies that could make our buildings more efficient... Can't wait to see what you come up with!

[@badapple65]

I just love one quote I’ve heard in at least one interview with FLW Where he states “I shake these designs out of my sleeve”. Every student of his ever interviewed that I’ve either seen in video format or read has spoken nothing but fondness for their Teacher/Master and they all attest to the fact that he would draw out his designs faster than almost humanly possible at his drawing table with traditional t-square and sliding ruler as students stood around him, ready, with a sharpened pencil ready to trade for dull. The students lived and studied in a communal type existence doing everything from farm work, gardening, building, participation in the school Choir and of course classroom learning.

[@AltoSnow]

Oh god, that sounds amazing. Such a shame stuff like that isn't really common nowadays. As a future architect student and passionate gardener, that sounds heavenly.

[@portadordenanismo]

Nice video essay but it's kinda silly to talk about CO2 emissions and the unsustainability of cars in the context of the 1920s and 1930s. Wright was certainly a guy who valued nature and community and the local, values highly associated with modern sustainable movement and culture.

[@benmarshall5984]

Exactly what I was thinking the whole video. It's easy to criticize our ancestors for things they didn't know where problems at the time. It's much harder to take a nuanced approach to the past. The modernist movement brought a lot of personal dignity and comfort to the everyday person that was unheard of beforehand and Wright tried to keep the modernists honest about the way they interacted with the places their buildings were erected.

[@95GuitarMan13]

It's also silly to give people from this time a complete free pass, some practitioners we're moving forward faster than others. Buckminster Fuller, a contemporary of FLW, was arguably much more aware of the real environmental impacts of his designs.

[@benmarshall5984]

@@95GuitarMan13 Bucky was a great designer and pioneer. I'm not sure I would call he and FLW contemporaries though. Buckminster Fullers geodesic domes started at the very end of FLWs career and the first geodesic sphere was completed on the year of FLWs death.

[@JamesSmithYoutube]

@@95GuitarMan13 Fuller's recognition began with the success of his huge domes in the 1950s - and FLLW died in 1959. It's a silly comparison.

[@JamesSmithYoutube]

Exactly what I was think - a really silly point the video tried to make.

[@Volksgeist]

Great as always, good job :)

[@SiccazHD]

how to fuck is it possible that the first person i thought of when i saw the thumbnail to this video was Volksgeist, and 1 of the 8 comments on a video with 1800 views abour fucking architectural history is my fuckings Volksgeist

[@jamesjensen5000]

In this time of pandemic... which is harshest in densely populated vertical architecture... in cities with mass transit... the time of horizontal architecture might be the future Wright foresaw... the city is so 20th century with its skyscrapers and subways... so, yes, Wright’s philosophy is valid today and into the 21st century... a horizontal future instead of hierarchy of vertical congestion and complexity.

[@myagrimm4719]

It would have been interesting if this video discussed habitat destruction/conservation. The more people that live in large single family homes with large yards, the more wildlife habitat is bulldozed. Cities take up much less space in general per person

[@Heresheis0818]

It’s designed to be sustainable anyway . ❤#Invisible hands#Visible FORCE

[@andydutton455]

He really was a visionary.

[@nartb]

Great video, thanks and keep it up! :)

[@Emma-DC]

Great video, captivating !

[@markrichards6863]

I think elements of his style are referenced frequently in modern architecture, the same way he referenced and borrowed from craftsman style. Take a trip to Palm Springs some time. You see his influence be all over the mid century homes and modern homes. I think he hit on some visual concepts that appealing to our human experience, the clearstory window, the corner window, the low roof line, coexistence with the environment. It was revolutionary. Theses are concepts that needed to be explored. FLW saw the need. On the other hand I do think elements of his design can be difficult to live with. People like to change and alter their living space. Doing that to a FLW structure would be criminal. I love the design elements he was the pioneer of, but I don't want to live in a museum, plus I happen to be a fan of a kitchen I can close off. But I like bid the living and dining area have a symbiotic relationship.

[@rebeccadvorak5989]

Great video!

[@marinejewel4651]

Why is it that people living in urban areas have a low carbon imprint? I, myself live in New York and I found that fact very interesting as I previously thought that cities, being industrial areas were centers of pollution. I saw cities as the very opposite of Wright’s ideology of living harmoniously with nature.

[@sillydillybar]

My guess is the argument has something to do with a New Yorker walking or taking the subway everywhere . Not sure how that really should be judged against someone living in the countryside with a big garden for half their food.

[@juliandavidac]

because it's more efficient and cheaper to deliver services in a compact city to a extensive suburban area where you use and transform more land

[@connorsailes]

where do you get all your videos from? Is it stock footage? :) thanks!

[@juliandavidac]

There is a little misleading here, you guys take the BroadAcre City and saying that it is like a Suburb, you don't even read the design 5:34 , the actual suburbs are only housing expansion for Kms, the BroadAcre City is a small compact city where the nature is the central system and you could find every services and products so you can walk in the nature, the priority is the nature not the roads, the suburbs are everything about roads to drive miles away to find anything.

[@Red-pv3tw]

saying wrights vision sounds like suburbia after having an overhead of one of his houses with nature all around it next door to packed suburbs is a little weird

[@user-dr2pg8fk2i]

Everyone wants to worship Wright's work. No one wants to fix the leaks.

[@ericstowers2403]

I thought we were going to be talking about planes in this video :)

[@CashMoneyDollar]

He literally was a man limited by the technology of his time.

[@jonpotter1632]

That’s pretty well put. I doubt his designs are on par with today’s PassivHaus and LEED standards, but I imagine if he were still alive today he would be more than capable of exceeding them.

[@rafaberr.rodriguez1303]

Great job but, soo many video editing effects!

[@epus40]

6:35 ... Why does the architect - American idol Frank Lloyd Wright - have dirty nails?!!!...?

[@hijo5966]

I think the off grid tiny house movement is a good argument against this video.

[@billolsen4360]

More pseudo science straight from the apostles. They'll keep propagandizing it until you believe, unless you can be a healthy skeptic.

[@kutie216]

It is unfortunate that people willingly choose not to see the nuance in things. They lack the means to silence dissent through debate, so instead they discredit others with accusations of "fact" denial, and the sheep follow suit by taking everything they say at face value.