RE FLW AESTHETICS POLITICS AYN RAND BEAUTY UGLY UTILITARIAN THINGS ARCHITECTURE

Speaking of him, Frank Lloyd Wright, he was too taken with Asian models, in my judgment, just as European aesthetes, especially the Impressionists, were; but they are beautiful living spaces, the private bungalows.

Also, and for similar reasons, he really needed a good structural, and perhaps also a drainage, engineer on board, for many of these things with flat roofs had standing water, sagging water, or worse, snow, roofs caving in, rather than merely the 'Falling Water' running past and through some of them, etc. Places like Taliesen didn't have such bad problems of this type perhaps.

Kind of Ironic, and comical, really.

Think especially of Howard Roark, Ayn Rand's character in The Fountainhead.

Think also of American conservatism, Hayek, etc. See also previous recent post, term search: EVERYMAN A GOD

I actually have a couple of his Foursquare series armchairs, his very rare, and unsuccessful, foray into mass production.

Wonderful chairs, beautiful to look at, not all that comfortable, kind of like Rand's 'ideas'.

As Wittgenstein had said, in a somewhat different context,

back to the rough ground!