h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Together we'll get FLW into the Edited Guide!

We really will, this could get a good entry, we just should not despair when we finally put it into PR and noone wants to read it. People here are like that with arts stuff.

Anyhow, I'd leave the last paragraph away. You don't have to thank anyone.

Shall I copy the stuff from the other thread here for easier access?

Dah!! You beet me again!

why?

Nothing nevermind. Gotta add you.

thanks
I'll write if I find anything I think might be worth adding

So far I just want it done. Then we can go over it in detail.

What do you mean with 'done'? There are still many things to add before we can put it into PR, I think. Then it will also be easier there.

As in put the basics in first, then later go over his life with more detail.

Ok, good.
So, you definitely have to add someting about the Guggenheim museum.

Can you get some general info on it and the year built?

Of course, give me a few minutes please...

Ok, here's what I can find in my book:

Built 1956-1959 (New York) (planned since 1943)

The most significant part of the building is the spiral that leads up the building around a... thingy... yard? People should go up with a lift and down the spiral ramp which led them through the museum and to the exit in the end. Wright didn't like the idea of a museum where you have to go the same way back that you went in.
The walls along the spiral are bent(?)/sloping(?), which they thought is better for the presentation of pictures.

ok, I found a nice quote which we maybe should get in, I'll try to find the original one in English, something about respecting nature, which was a main part of his designs

I found a whole page of quotes: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/1469/flwquote.html

I think the one they mean in my book is "I believe in God, only I spell it Nature"

Ok, then some more biographical things: his parents were poor. And he worked for Sullivan, that's also important.
As a child he always liked drawing and designing, but when his mother noticed that he spent most of his life with that he was sent to work at her brother's farm during summer, which obviously made a big impression on him.

Ok, some more about Prairie Houses: the cellar was higher than usual so people had a better view from the ground floor and the roofs wide for shade. He also didn't use too many materials because he wanted simplicity.

He liked the idea of prefabrication.

His idea of the destruction of the box (which I mentioned in our thred) led to... um... 'floating' rooms. Er... no clear boarders if you know what I mean.

Very important for him was also the 'humanity' of his buildings.


Things about Falling Waters are to come later.

good pictures of the guggenheim museum to which you could link:
http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/m/images/museum_wrigh.gugg.2.lg.jpg
http://www.delmar.edu/socsci/Faculty/Stone/HIST1302/images/Wright,%20Guggenheim%20Museum,%20interior.jpg

one of the prairie hoses: (for Ward W. Willits)
http://www.delmars.com/wright/willits4.jpg

I think I'll need to figure out a way to get this stuff in.

please do and also the things I told you in our other thread