"The answer is within yourself, within the nature of the thing that you yourself represent as yourself, that's where architecture lies, that's where humanity lies, that's where the future we are going to have lies. If we're ever going to amount to anything, it's there now, and all we have to do is to develop it." Thank You, Mr Frank Lloyd Wright.

@shakey3306

11 ай бұрын

Buddha say that way before him…

flw wasn't just an architect, he was an artist, and he didn't design without the natural elements in mind, he is so right about so much architecture simply being designed to raise the rent, especially now, many people have taken to renovating old downtown buildings into everything from law offices to schools, because no one is building anything with character anymore, the newest buildings are the worst, there isn't even any regional flair anymore, it's like new cars these days, i can't tell one from the other, nothing has it's own identity, it's all designed with profit in mind and nothing else.

What I find fascinating about Frank Lloyd Wright is the men and women who commissioned Wright to design their house, at the time they were young couples just starting out who would eventually live almost their entire lives in one of his house designs. Many of these couples told many that they never regretted their decision on having Wright design their home. The correspondence between Wright and his clients is fascinating to read it shows the depth of how Wright would individualize each home. Wright and his clients would continue to correspond for decades after the house was completed.

I regret that I haven't heard of Frank Lloyd before today

Original thinking, artistry, and nature incorporated into design. And closed-minded people feared that.

@BayviewFinch

8 жыл бұрын

+cqtaylor I fear the cost of it. I certainly don't have the money to buy a Frank Lloyd Wright building.

@jesseleeward8749

8 жыл бұрын

+cqtaylor I think that it was his futurist mindset - Seeming to dismiss all architecture that went before him upset some people.

@alfredomarquez1916

8 жыл бұрын

FLW was not precisely an open minded individual on his own right, considering what he thought of his European contemporaries.

@jesseleeward8749

8 жыл бұрын

Alfredo Marquez What did he think of his contemporaries?

@joaoii1082

5 жыл бұрын

He got that from the japanese

Living in a Frank Lloyd Wright house now for the last two years . The previous owners Dr. Goldman and his beautiful wife had the home built for them in 1953 Mr. Wright came to the property and left in 15 minutes A few months later FLW sent architectural plans to Dr. Goldman for the property . The home cannot be more inviting from the outside to the inside to the outside to the inside your at Nature And Nature is with you Pure genius No really the guy is a genius

@shahn78

6 жыл бұрын

To say he can design for anyone is obviously a silly idea but he sounds full of himself. Can we come visit? :D

@popsfereal3192

4 жыл бұрын

I live in Madison, Ohio. There's a FLW house just down the street. I never tire of looking at it.

this channel is a godsend..

@jesseleeward2359

3 жыл бұрын

Love public TV. The 70s was so highbrow

I’ve never heard him speak, but it was an absolutely wonderful experience.

Jesus that was electric!

I really like his voice, and the animation really compliments it.

Still people today think good design is elitist, foo foo, or superlative when in reality it can be quite transformative and democratizing. Not every building that is good design has to be the Guggenheim or a building by Piano or Zumthor, but sure as hell can be more thoughtful than a small beige box on three acres of land you drive to instead of walk to to just get a whatever. Architecture is just as important as engineering, medicine, and law and it takes just as much study as well - not so and so has a flare for it style. Unfortunately, no one wants to pay for it and not a lot of people see that much value in something that affects people everyday both positively and negatively. We need a renaissance of respect of and engagement with expertise, not a carte blanche (see: Urban Renewal) or a complete disregard (see: 90% of US design).

@linglingjr

8 жыл бұрын

Design is dead in the US. Industrial design gets bundled to Asia with manufacturing, vehicle design is based on nothing but safety, aerodynamics and cost efficiency. Just look at the state of creativity and art in public schools -- it's non existent.

@TRON0314

8 жыл бұрын

+linglingjr couldn't have said it better myself. Mericuh.

What a brilliant man

Not sure if you'll read this but I'll say it anyway. I love your channel for the message it conveys. I think it's encouraging to every free spirit out there, and it's motivating. Never stop making these videos, because a lot of people share my opinion even it they don't speak out. You will get big.

What a singular subject! I find I enjoy picturing what Patrick Smith will chose as art for the series. I hope we'll see more from him!

Incredible. Thank you for this!

Great channel. Cant describe how good it is

We have a FLW home in our hometown of Florence, AL. It's a museum I adore visiting. Brilliant man with incredible vision.

These videos are so awesome. I love PBS.

A 70 year career. Magnificent

This is so well done. Thank You.

Optional captions would be greatly appreciated for this particular video. The sound quality is so grainy and it's difficult to make out words sometimes.

@BlankonblankOrg

8 жыл бұрын

Coming shortly.

@ReallyRedPanda

8 жыл бұрын

+Blank on Blank Thanks very much!

My new favorite channel on youtube.

can some of you read the video description before complaining about how you preferred the old animation? This is part of a series, and is temporary. Try to see the character and obvious hard work that goes into this before flapping your gums.

I loved this. Thanks.

There will never be another Frank Lloyd Wright.

@shakey3306

11 ай бұрын

Thank goodness

Great stuff guys!!!!

Beautiful

I'd love to see a sort of compare/contrast episode: two interviews from the same person, but with a large time gap. I.e., Thom Yorke in the early 90s vs Thom Yorke now.

@stuvs830

8 жыл бұрын

Your comment made me think of Joni Mitchell revisiting "Both Sides Now" the whole world in her voice

@matiasmolina3373

7 жыл бұрын

Damn.

@Ohfukmoment

5 жыл бұрын

That is SUCH a cool idea.

I love his chapel in PV. I wish too see more of his buildings

"True ornamentation is always OF the thing, never ON it." -FLW

It's remarkable how genius he is

fantastic!

"if we're ever going to mount to anything it's there now, all we have to do is know."

What an outstanding and well thought out visionary he is. Great ambition all aimed towards an even greater prosperity. He seems like a great individual and human being

@shakey3306

11 ай бұрын

You were successfully fooled

@c.galindo9639

11 ай бұрын

@@shakey3306 I have to believe your blank statement with no validity put into it? How is that even believable?

I truly miss these interview videos! Do they have a form of continuation in this series elsewhere?

Very nice.

Lovely

Set the switch in the ‘Smash Mode’ position and broke it off!

You guys should do one on Elvis, these are fantastic. Keep em coming

The man was born in 1867 and died in 1959. He literally saw America be built on the foundations it is today.

The images chosen for the Wright video are excellent; a lot of work went into the visual materials. As for style, I'm reminded of the old UPA cartoons -- think, Mr Magoo. It's interesting that no attempt was made to caricature Wright's or Wallace's faces . . . a lost opportunity ?

One of a handful of true geniuses this country has produced.

@pyayaXC

7 жыл бұрын

Rob Lewis, I dunno how defendable his genius is, at least as it relates to urban planning. Wright was staunchly opposed to transit-oriented development, but w/out said mode of development, the U.S.'s carbon emissions per capita would be even worse than it is today.

@Pheatan

2 жыл бұрын

Nah man. Flw was a narcissist and sociopath. Nearly every building he ever created had significant design flaws from leaking ceilings, ceilings so low anyone over 6ft couldnt stand, a skylight that was made out of vertical glass tubes with holes right next to the tubes, and literally designing a home where the master bedroom was just a deck out side in the open air. The guy only ever completed 2 semesters of architecture classes. Stole millions in todays money from creditors and family members. And charged nearly double what an actual architecture tuition cost to essentially live in an orgy house with a bunch of other men. If it wasn’t for the fact that most of the students he was teaching also took a real engineering course most of his designs would have literally collapsed. This doesn’t even cover his sexual life including marrying a woman having 2 kids and then leaving her without divorce and living with the mistress in the apartment next door. Building his extravagant house under his mothers name so that when divorce came it technically wasn’t his, and then being so hated that his cleaner burns the house down with the mistress and her children inside. Literally pretending his first 2 children never existed and having another child with a rich Russian lady who could afford to rebuild his house. And claiming he was a perfect father despite literally only contacting his first children once in his 90 year life.

@noahthomas8774

Жыл бұрын

He is not a genius because him not being a staunch utilitarian could've had a negative impact on the carbon footprint? Truly a thought deserving of a KZread Comment.

@markcuckersperg305

10 ай бұрын

@@pyayaXC c02 is not Pollution. It good that there is more now.

Great video! :)

I live in Hillsboro. The entire town is boring and lifeless. I think what depresses me the most are the buildings. They way everything is made to look older than it really was, with fake wirework lamps that were probably bought at "Bed, Bath and Beyond." Hillsboro's entire 'style' of the downtown district was chosen from a fucking pallet. Seriously, Hillsboro is like some kind of Instant Inflat-o-City preset. So I can get Frank Wright thinking that the cathedrals and churches are uninspired. More marble columns. More predictable arches, curving like an art student was told exactly what style to use. I'll take the Church of Latter Day Jetsons any day. Fuck columns. I helped my buddy study for an art class about ancient architecture, and he has a whole goddamn exam on different columns. There was virtually no difference between them except for the number of little divets in the columns, or the amount of square edges on the top and bottom, or what building they were attached to. They even had strict definitions for each part of the column. Why the fuck did anyone care so much about columns? It's just a goddamn support beam! I'm gonna make a building that's nothing but fucking columns. No floor, no roof. All columns, all day, every day columns. Back to Hillsboro's shitty lamps. If I see one more of Hillsboro's patio-ass lamps with the cast-iron leaves on them, I'm gonna be sick. Or the Cambridge lamps that pretend to be gas lamps. Fuck that too. Why can't we just embrace technology when we make art? The way that it looks, the stuff it does, the feelings it inspires us with. People say LED light is cold and lifeless, but maybe that's a good thing. It's a change from orange halogen bulbs. Halogen bulbs make me feel warm and pukey. I feel like there's whole worlds of art I'm totally ignorant too. It seems like "futurism" goes in the direction I'm talking about, but I don't know. I don't know anything. Goddamnit! What, you're still reading? You must be a masochist or something.

@DrewPaulBell

8 жыл бұрын

+EricLeafericson bump. I found this really funny lol

@potenvandebizon

8 жыл бұрын

+EricLeafericson hahah nice comment. The ancient greek columns all have a certain story with them, because the Greeks expressed their entire philosophy in their architecture. All the proporitons within, say, the Acropolis temples in Athens are very well thought out, all the parts are in proportion to the human body. That's because the Greeks thought that humans were an image of the gods, a microcosm of their own, and the human shape and proportions were therefore perfect. The three kinds of columns they had, undoubtedly the kinds your friend had to learn about, were from different periods and all had their own message. I can understand you think it's boring, but it was not pointless at all. I recognize your feeling about bad architecture. I live in Holland in a dull village called Vlijmen, and apart from a few old mansions and houses and farms that are beautiful (including the one I live in), it's all god-awfully depressing blocks of stone. Nobody even tried or faked to make it pretty, the houses are purely funcitonal, cheap and ugly. I walk the dog sometimes through naturem which is nice, and sometimes through the residential areas, continuously thinking to myself never to live in soul-sucking ugly bricks. I live near Duketown though, and that medieval town is just a charm to cycle through. I advise, if you want to know more about architecture and why people in the past thought art and architecture were important (like making you happy instead of depressing), to read a few books on art. Just general stuff. Even wikipedia is helpful. Look for the Art Nouveau style (Gaudi, Mucha), they thought beautiful things made by craftsmen were important. The Sagrada Familia is one of the most stunning peaces of architecture in the world and an example of how a church can be meaningful (that is, unlike what Wright describes in the interview).

@macstrong1284

7 жыл бұрын

I actually really enjoyed reading this. Not contrived or boring, very nice. FVCK COLVMNS!

@Mordorer

5 жыл бұрын

EricLeafericson so...columns it is.

@privatenumber7243

4 жыл бұрын

I think you're a very interesting person. That is, based on your comment. I'm comforted by your use of curse words, and your cynicism cracks me up. May you live a long and prosperous life.

this guy sounds so real

Nothing useless is, or low; each thing in its place is best; and what seems but idle show strengthens and supports the rest. -HW Longfellow

Maybe the style choice of this animation was based on the fact that the man is an architect, but I enjoy the rough animation of the traditional episodes much more.

I can't believe people downvoted this...

kanye west listening to this with a big smile.

@mox.kartal

7 жыл бұрын

why?

@mox.kartal

7 жыл бұрын

don't try to displace this discussion in the field of subjective and taste..and don't try to categorize people who dont like superficial popular music by "artists" who try artificially to present them as thoughful geniuses (and you can clearly see how they are full of compromises of all kinds(from those which concerns form of their art to those which concers their attiudes towards some topics)) as narrow-minded critics from the wright era..just don't..that attempt mirrors you as really naive and uneducated person and i hope that you're really not like that..

@mox.kartal

7 жыл бұрын

ende

@AnOfferHeCantRefuse

7 жыл бұрын

Momcilo Kartalovic Not gonna step on your toes for not relating to the music or the personality, but Kanye has been a major impact on the culture at large for nearly two decades. If his versatility to break rules and redefine the musical and fashion landscape again and again isn't enough to prove a tad of creative genius then I don't know what is.

@bogolin007

7 жыл бұрын

Frank Lloyd Wright, Pablo Picasso, Kanye West: Geniuses that live with the knowledge of their genius. Anyone who doesn't think Kanye West is a genius is blind to how much he brings out of every musician he works with, and how his creativity transcends music genres and even forms of art. These three men would greatly enjoy each other's company.

I HIGHLY recommend to anyone who is interested in learning more about Frank Lloyd Wright that they listen to the podcast "The Dollop". They did an OUTSTANDING episode on FLW, and it's absolutely riveting and far, far, FAR more hilarious than it is riveting! Cheers!

I think the problem with hearing Mr Wright speak originates in his curious diction -- a sort of "I can talk without moving my mouth" effect that puzzles me, and always has.

how did u make the animation of erecting pillars? and join of beams on pillar?

What a G

"Sure it isnt an inferiority complex?" Frank just fucking 8mile'd that guy lmao

Glad I have the last name Wright.

whats the melody at 0:41 ? it sounds so great, anybody knows?!

I remember looking forward to going to the Disney Hall Concert hall and was somewhat impressed with the exterior, though not blown away, I thought the interior must be where the magic happens and was so disappointment! I've never felt like that with a FLW building, exterior or interior. Blank on Blank, you guys picked a great piece of the conversation. Wallace was always a bit of a dick, but he got situated on this one.

i wish the world was the way he wanted it i think if the world was that way. i dont think we would have nearly the sadness that exists in the world today the sadness that drives all the evil in the world

Build a mansion, fill every room , every person works, grows food every seed grows etc In that building people live in resonance . Stay close to what you have developed Please contribute

Can someone tell me how to make animated videos like this..??

I like your usual graphics much more, they would have gone better with the photographs at the beginning, music and the voices.

@BlankonblankOrg

8 жыл бұрын

This is part of our special miniseries, The Experimenters, created with guest animators. More of Pat Smith's work coming soon.

@xyxyy758

8 жыл бұрын

+Blank on Blank I did not mean to insult the guest animator. He does a much better job at what he does than I ever could, it just happens to not match my taste.

Recorded on those giant sized radio platters, sounds like.

I Came from a Simpsons episode, i feel gratefull, it Was a nivel discovery.

You guys should do Charlie Kaufman!

I'm trying to gauge the public response status. Is it okay if we cry when we watch PBS?

You should do one on Jeff Buckley; that would be really amazing

I understand the point he's trying to make, but I believe it was said much better in a video here on You Tube on the The School of Life channel called "How to Make an Attractive City" and "Why Design Matters". Both videos really changed my perspective and where Frank Lloyd Wright came across as ham fisted, their explanation is more palatable to modern audiences.

@jeromecastillo3994

8 жыл бұрын

+Tyrion Lannister Ive watched that video about how to make an attractive city. I fell in love with the idea of openess were you can see people of what they are doing. You feel connected to other people. While Frank Lloyd is made change my perspective of what architecture is.

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It felt weird seeing his voice come out of that little cartoon face

It’s funny that the ideas of Frank Lloyd Wright are sponsored by square space; the vary company that has built its platform on the idea of economical efficiency. The same way that houses are being pumped out now, websites are as well; With their scaffolds and drag and drop capabilities. Provided by companies like square space and word press. It’s not that these platforms don’t serve their place in today’s web; but it reminds us that we should appreciate the websites and platforms that are built to their purpose and environment. The same way we appreciate how Wright’s homes do.

What he says about New York around 1:05... Detroit.

Eichler please

From the ground up....

I have just one question, why the flat roofs?

@Pheatan

2 жыл бұрын

Because he never finished his architecture degree i doesn’t understand that if you don’t drain water it leaks into the building.

@shakey3306

11 ай бұрын

Lack of creativity

Dry ice machine at the top of tall buildings, ducted from ground leave to top of building,

subtitles please

@BlankonblankOrg

8 жыл бұрын

+veetaleey um, we have english and spanish subtitles.

@recycle-bin-camp

8 жыл бұрын

+Blank on Blank i can see no subtitles

@recycle-bin-camp

8 жыл бұрын

+Blank on Blank wow, now it's appear... just needed to ctrl +r :}

@BlankonblankOrg

8 жыл бұрын

+veetaleey you have to choose to see subtitles. "cc"

The church part ~~~~

PFFFFT Frank was at the top of arrogance with broadacre

@Threebs-

5 жыл бұрын

I dont think this is blind arrogance, more so just a man that has high expectations from himself and wants to hit those expectations each time he does his work.

@shakey3306

11 ай бұрын

@@Threebs-you were fooled

Imagine if he saw the crap being built today, and on top of it, those quoting him while making it.

@Pheatan

2 жыл бұрын

He would be confused how the roof doesn’t leak

@j.pendergrass9805

2 жыл бұрын

@@Pheatan that’s funny 😆

Stay close this origin

Read the fountainhead

Is this one of these people we have to thank for turning our architecture into a soulless heap?

@brazni

8 жыл бұрын

+MrCool Mug sounds like quite the opposite

@mr.coolmug3181

8 жыл бұрын

***** Well in that case his work remains to be seen for you. Simply google his buildings, there's nothing beautiful, unless you think reductionist un-aesthetic heaps of rectangles makes you happy to see me.

@mr.coolmug3181

8 жыл бұрын

Alicia en el pais de las maravillas That's such crap. Come up with something interesting.

@Buckers582

8 жыл бұрын

+MrCool Mug if you can't appreciate his architecture then we can't change your mind

@mr.coolmug3181

8 жыл бұрын

Buckers582 Well you don't know. But you aren't even tying to change my mind, you'll settle for "everyone has an opinion" and walk away. Pathetic.

Funny how it's usually the people who bemoan being called arrogant saying things like "I could have..." not "I did"

Most of us, especially those of us in US suburbs live in abominations. Arrogant, mindless, thoughtless, largely inefficient structures based on a technology and style better placed in the 17th century, not the 21st. Our idea of "modern" has become an updated kitchen, an updated bathroom, knocking down a wall -- none of which solves the problem that the home itself is what is inferior. What's worse is those with more money tend not to spend it on intelligence and efficiency, they spend it on facade; meaningless ornament. Elements that consume more resources, not less. A home in the 21st century should be designed to not only enhance its surroundings and enhance the person's life who lives within, it should be designed to work with it's environment using as little outside resources as possible. People don't think but simply by the direction a home faces, the placement of its windows and the use of certain materials, a home can be twice if not three times as efficient. Couple that with affordable technologies and management systems and you can live in a home that is far more advanced, well thought out, well built and efficient.

He missed the whole idea of reverence for God by saying that a church's architecture should reflect the independence of Man, that we are not inferior to to God. I would love to see a church designed by him. It would be fascinating.

@shakey3306

11 ай бұрын

He designed a church and it looks like shit

Guy walks out on his first wife and kids without a thought. Leaves them in the lurch. And he pontificates on "church". That's rich.

The idea of the Skyline of New York City is randomness, entropy, and freedom from plan -- as a forest grows from randomness. Too bad Frank did not have the emotional intelligence to see that.

Mike Wallace is out of his depth here, largely because he was such an ideologue more interested in scoring points than in having a thoughtful exchange of ideas. Wallace should have talked less and listened more -- speaking only to ask Wright to amplify or clarify the ideas raised here, rather than leveling accusations at him. (And don't even get me started about the Philip Morris nonsense and Wallace's anger that Wright wouldn't smoke a cigarette.) Sadly, whatever genetic disposition toward bad journalism Wallace had was passed along to his son, Chris.

He was hyper arrogant. Thank God he wasn’t in charge of anything meaningful in society. Just look at his life.

@shakey3306

11 ай бұрын

True, he considers criticise of him as worthless then proceeds to criticise modern skyscrapers

Back when men were revered. We don't have those anymore.

He and Ayn Rand wouldve gotten along. That being said, the line "I put a capital N on Nature and call it my church" was inspired!

Frank Lloyd Wright would have gotten along with Ayn Rand

@shakey3306

11 ай бұрын

Two freaks

Well at least he wanted to make love, not war, with the ruskies.

FLW was a horse's ass.

@shakey3306

11 ай бұрын

Horse’s asses are beautiful, unlike him

It isn't necessary for a brilliant person to be an insufferable windbag, but it sometimes happens that way, because nobody's perfect.

@shakey3306

11 ай бұрын

Didn’t happen with him

Je n'ai rien compris. Réalisation infantile...

Seems Shady

The arrogance here is overwhelming and it's all FLW.

such a hatred for the Most High.

@cactaceous

8 жыл бұрын

+zaxus211 Hatred? No, an understanding that any rational person not blinded by fear can see that the imaginary friend some people have been brainwashed into believing exists is just that, an imaginary being created to put fear in the heart of people so that they live like sheep. Funny how the creation of the Bible and its numerous printings and publishings can be traced back to politicians and kings who wanted to brainwash and scare their people so that they could control them. From Constantine to Henry VIII to James VI and I, the spreading of the "teachings" of the so called Bible was just fear mongering and propaganda. It continues to work to this day. Religion is the opium of some of the masses, and the people that are incredibly religious use religion as addicts use substances. It is no different. Religious people do not want to question or do not want to seek the truth because they have been brainwashed by fear to not stray from the heard like sheep. We see scientific facts all around us, but sheep believe in things they have never seen nor will they ever see because a book says to believe without seeing. HOW CONVENIENT for the people selling an imaginary friend and imaginary rules and imaginary fear. How convenient.

@butMydesign

8 жыл бұрын

+cactaceous I regret to inform you that you are a bigot who has not taken the time to learn about the vast majority of people that surround you. And just like all bigots you have a disproportionate amount disdain for those who see things differently.

@zaxus211

8 жыл бұрын

the lady doth protest too much.

@cactaceous

8 жыл бұрын

+butMydesign Do you know me? Have we met?

@cactaceous

8 жыл бұрын

+zaxus211 methinks not, Queen Gertrude.