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Message:: [QUOTE="Ghopper1924, post: 619515, member: 5170"]Who cares about how practical he was? The one architect most people who know nothing about architecture know is Frank Lloyd Wright. Only a philistine would tear  one of his buildings down for some throwaway building that will be gone n 30 years. He did more to further the awareness of architecture than any single architect before him, at least in America, Sullivan and Richardson notwithstanding. 60 years after his death and everybody still knows his name! It's simply astonishing. No surprise that people keep thinking of Joni Mitchell and her line about paving paradise and putting up a parking lot. Oh, and just to see if you're still reading: I live in the capital city that was hit by a F3 or F4 tornado last night. Google it and check the photos. Not only is there widespread human devastation (no deaths, amazingly and thankfully), but several blocks of one-of-a-kind Victorian homes will probably have to be bulldozed. Homes that survived the war with modernism and were on the way back to create a spectacular historic district. The moral? Quit tearing important architecture down! Mother natures does enough of it without the help of greedheads. When it's gone it's gone. Oh, and in case you're wondering: we (and our antiques) escaped unscathed. So thankful!!!![/QUOTE]