On 2/10/2012 9:53 AM, Ken Norton wrote:
>> There's something about his designs from the Prairie period forwards
>> that just resonates with me.
> Falling Water is probably the ultimate one for me. I never cared for
> the rounded "organic" look he went so much with later on. The Japanese
> influence was good, but I feel that he took it to a point where he too
> tightly defined the "act of living" within his buildings.
>
> Mason City, Iowa has a nice concentration of FLW buildings. But I grew
> up in a small town in Michigan where there was one custom house built
> over a creek and two others which used his designs, but he didn't
> personally oversee.
So maybe the roofs* didn't leak?
Water on the Brain Moose
* roof:roofs as hoof:hooves? Depends on where in the world you are.
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