Ishkur: The reason why most of his designs were never made is because they were severely impractical, if not engineering monstrosities and certifiable death traps.

One that was definitely made was Fallingwater.

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A residence with a river/waterfall going through it.

No one lives there because it's untenable. It's just supposed to be looked at, like art. Not lived in, like actual farking architecture. It is plagued with so many structural, engineering, and design defects and inefficiencies that it requires annual integrity checks, maintenance, and recallibrating (it moves several inches a year) to keep it from collapsing and falling down stream. Humidity and winter weather does a serious number on it.

I mean, it looks nice as a model:

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But is an absolute hellscape engineering-wise. NOTHING is reinforced. The foundation is a literal farking river bed. They installed tension cables to keep the house standing up these days (something FLW would have fought if he were still alive).

Like the character Howard Roark based after him, FLW had an insatiable ego and often argued with and overruled the will of engineers who knew better. His designs constantly forsook the cardinal rule of architecture: That it's meant to be used. By humans. Every day.

Ishkur: slantsix: Correct me if I'm wrong, but you're neither an architect or engineer; you've never owned it or lived there; you're not any sort of architectural historian or anthropologist; in fact you've never actually been, and are in no way qualified to speak to any of your points - you're repeating things you've heard others say.

I literally just cutnpasted the wiki.

That's how common knowledge this is. If you want me to send you sources and citations, give me 15 more seconds to google some results.