Mike Wallace interviews Frank Lloyd Wright May 29
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If you’re into Frank Lloyd Wright and the old-timey direct interview style of Mike Wallace, this two-part interview (that’s an iTunes link) may interest you. I found it fascinating.
In 1957, at the age of 90, Frank Lloyd Wright was in New York to supervise construction of his final masterpiece—the Guggenheim Museum. Mike Wallace invited him to be a guest on the TV show, The Mike Wallace Interview. Rarely has a figure of such historic importance been so revealingly captured. Guided by Wallace’s questioning, America’s greatest architect emerges as a wise, idealistic, nonconformist, and uniquely self-confident man. This is the complete soundtrack to that legendary interview.
If you have RealPlayer installed you can watch some clips from the interview on PBS.org. The entire interview is available on VHS from Amazon.
Also highly recommended is the two-and-a-half hour Ken Burns documentary on Wright.
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Mike 30 May 07
Oy, all these rules: I need iTunes here, I need Real Audio there (and I have no idea what a VHS is). I long for the good old days of You Tube.
Keith 01 Jun 07
Just did a tour of Taliesin West in Arizona and it was outstanding. Our “docent” was very knowledgeable and talked a lot about things that Wright did during his “development” of a project.
One of the things I thought had a great parallel for the web world was just building things out of available materials as prototypes.
In one example, he built a really neat lamp out of scrap wood and some drafting paper. His wall sconces were all the smallest bits of wood and scraps of canvas.
I kind of thought it was like paper prototyping or wireframing a design on the project. It seemed quite agile in terms of both the execution and timliness.
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