FLW = Permanent Modernism

I hadn't even considered or thought about taking an Art History class here at Chaffey College when I first witnessed a Frank Lloyd Wright home. I was in a department store when I picked up a book with the "coolest" looking modern home I'd ever seen on its cover.

The picture was actually a photo of Frank Lloyd Wright's "Robie House" which was from what I have recently learned was built in 1910?? Yes, to my disbelief and extreme shock, 1910 a year when the Ford's model T along with other ancient steam cars were roaming around undeveloped, skyscraperless cities. The television came over a decade later than the "Robie House" a building which to me resembled a concept car coming out in 2010 not 1910.

Looking through the book I noticed many more of these similar homes and was so intrigued and astonished I purchased it. I even told my girlfriend I wanted to by a house created by this man when I got older. To find out that these aesthetic, innovative and futuristic structures were created before a computer, microwave, and even a television, the very objects that make houses into homes in present day America was just completely astonishing.

Frank Lloyd Wright has impressed me the most out of any artist we have covered in class from Michaelangelo to Picasso. This man was definitely 100 years ahead of his time in the way he structured these homes, incorporated nature, and the use of functionality first was simply amazing. In fact his works might never be of "time" they might always be a step ahead of the rest. Simply some of the best and most amazing architecture I've seen in my life.