QotD: Frank Lloyd Wright

I am reminded of the late Frank Lloyd Wright. I have been in several of his buildings, and known several people who've owned homes he designed. He was NOTORIOUS for specifying shoddy materials that couldn't do the job they were expected to do. The Greek Orthodox Church here in Milwaukee (one of his last projects) spent huge amounts of money to keep the roof from collapsing. A friend had a house in Jefferson that had a tree growing up through the living room (designed that way). He never came up with a way to seal the roof around the trunk of the tree and still allow it to grow, every time it rained their living room flooded. His private homes were almost all built without any closets, I know one family who can't even use any of the rooms on the second floor because they can't get any furniture up the narrow winding stairways.

Don Dellmann, posting to "Railroad_Modeling_Still_Makes_Me_Grumpy" at Yahoo Groups, 2007-07-30