Many of Wright’s designs are testaments to the power of working with steel and concrete, and understanding their virtues as a medium apart from wood, thatch or stone. His designs achieved beauty through simple choices based on form led by function and crafted by a mind possessed of its correctness in light of observing nature and objects, grasping them for what they were.
Those who claimed to follow in Wright’s footsteps with the gray and brown steel and concrete, poorly lit boxes infused their work with the worst excesses of pyramidic thinking, tombs where the soul is trapped rather than liberated, stifled rather than ignited.
Many of Wright’s designs are testaments to the power of working with steel and concrete, and understanding their virtues as a medium apart from wood, thatch or stone. His designs achieved beauty through simple choices based on form led by function and crafted by a mind possessed of its correctness in light of observing nature and objects, grasping them for what they were.
Those who claimed to follow in Wright’s footsteps with the gray and brown steel and concrete, poorly lit boxes infused their work with the worst excesses of pyramidic thinking, tombs where the soul is trapped rather than liberated, stifled rather than ignited.
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