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Unbuilt Frank Lloyd Wright Designs Brought to Life in 3-D
Renderings
Author : PaulHoule
Score : 84 points
Date : 2023-02-06 15:00 UTC (8 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.smithsonianmag.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.smithsonianmag.com)
| hcrisp wrote:
| What? No render of his "mile-high skyscraper"?
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| https://lynceans.org/all-posts/frank-lloyd-wrights-1956-mile...
| daveslash wrote:
| Looks similar to the Burj Khalifa. Hadn't seen that before.
| Thanks for sharing.
| canadiantim wrote:
| Has anyone had any luck feeding floorplans to something like
| Stable Diffusion and getting accurately generated 3D renderings?
| I've had some luck but it's still very rough
| PaulHoule wrote:
| Sounds like a job for NeRF.
| gs17 wrote:
| I'm not sure that's the best approach. It would probably work
| better if you make a simple 3D rendering from the floorplan
| first.
| elihu wrote:
| Frank Lloyd Wright was ahead of his time. The National Life
| Insurance building looks like a fin-fet.
| lngarner wrote:
| Wow so cool!!
| hnburnsy wrote:
| The Spire in the Arizona Capitol image actually exists at the
| corner of Frank Lloyd Wright Blvd and Scottsdale Road...
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| https://localwiki.org/scottsdale/Scottsdale_Spire
| daveslash wrote:
| The Arizona State Capital building interior looks like something
| straight out of Star Trek, circa Star Trek I - VI movies - maybe
| a smaller building at Starfleet Headquarters.
| MichaelZuo wrote:
| Incredibly beautiful designs, thanks for sharing.
| MichaelZuo wrote:
| Incredibly beautiful designs, thanks for sharing.
| peatfreak wrote:
| I'm really curious as to how these were done, or might plausibly
| have been done. Is this indicated anywhere? After working on
| audio signal processing for quite a few years, I'm investigating
| image and video rendering, and applications like this are the
| kind of thing I'm interested in.
| gregoriol wrote:
| The "National Life Insurance Building" looks a lot like this one:
| https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hopital_beaujon.jp...
| hammock wrote:
| Also Merch Mart, which has its own history in Chicago.
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| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchandise_Mart#/media/File:M...
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| Fun fact, the Mart supplanted a famous old Marshall Fields
| building that was torn down - the Wholesale Store - a building
| from which Louis Sullivan (Wright's mentor to whom this
| National Life Insurance plan was tribute) took some of his
| greatest inspiration.
| doitLP wrote:
| I have been inside several FLW houses/structures in the LA area
| and I don't get it. They are massive, angular, with small windows
| and very little natural light, and evoke the feeling that you're
| in a burial chamber built in the 1950s. Not for me and I wonder
| if his popularity is mostly bandwagoning like other modern art.
| toast0 wrote:
| FLW has a distinctive style with strong ideas. IMHO, I find the
| style visually pleasing, although I'm a more of a form follows
| function kind of person, and a lot of FLW's buildings and other
| things like chairs and such aren't very functional, so he
| doesn't score many points in my book.
| chasil wrote:
| Those were later period buildings.
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| Look at photos of the Robie house in Chicago, typical of his
| early prairie period:
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| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robie_House
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| https://www.google.com/search?q=Robie+House+interior
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| The largest building of his prairie period was the Dana-Thomas
| house in Springfield, also worth seeing.
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| OkayPhysicist wrote:
| Most buildings from that time period wouldn't have leaned into
| too much natural light and large windows, because residential
| AC was far from common. That said, for the time, Wright used a
| lot of glass, though from looking through pictures online it
| seems he did less so in his LA buildings. I'm guessing it'd be
| in response to the climate.
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| That said, "large and angular" fits his style pretty
| accurately. Though the most indicative aspect of his designs is
| the layering. A lot of his buildings are built to have a very
| particular look of being made up of mostly flat horizontal
| layers of various thicknesses, protruding or retracting from
| the layers below them in varied shapes. Often these leaned
| heavily into having a lot of right angles, but when he used
| curves, he leaned hard into them: The Norman Lyke's House or
| The Center for the Performing Arts in San Jose are example of
| extremely curvy buildings still unmistakably in his style.
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| Ultimately, Wright's enduring fame can be easily understood by
| the fact that he was novel, consistent, and prolific. His style
| was (and to only a slightly lesser extent, still is) new and
| different from most everything else, and he stuck to it enough
| that people could recognize his work in particular. Combine
| that with designing quite a few buildings, and you've got
| yourself a recipe for the most famous architect ever.
| acomjean wrote:
| I've been to Falling Water in PA and his house in New Hampshire
| (pro tip: set GPS to Currier Musuem for that one).
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| https://currier.org/frank-lloyd-wright/
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| I like them (the ones I've seen anyway). They have an
| interesting and unique aesthetic. I like the design of the
| stained glass alot. I'm not sure how practical living day to
| day, but people did. The one in New Hampshire (Zimmerman house)
| had wall to ceiling windows on the back side.
|
| This is a fun use of 3d tech. I did some Unreal engine work,
| and the first thing was building out an apartment interior you
| could then move through in real time. It was kind of neat. The
| detail in having to place all the interior lights and all was
| something.
|
| The "Groupius House" (by walter Groupius) is another modern
| really practical house. But in this case the architect was the
| ocupant.
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| https://www.historicnewengland.org/property/gropius-house/
| Aloha wrote:
| When you look around an FLW home, no matter its age, you're
| struck by how startlingly modern it feels. Yes, they all have
| flaws, but they feel modern.
| chasil wrote:
| "It's a miracle that almost all of Frank Lloyd Wright's drawings
| have been preserved, especially considering that his successive
| houses suffered three fires."
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| One of these fires is particularly notorious.
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| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamah_Borthwick#Murder
| hammock wrote:
| I once worked in what was Frank Lloyd Wright's old offices. The
| board room in the back of the building had his original safes
| where he kept his drawings still in the wall, and you could
| check them out. Always thought that was cool
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