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An architect's most significant works ... in his later years

An architect's most significant works ... in his later years
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I came across a meme recently.

It showed the building "Fallingwater" in the background.

And highlighted that the architect Frank Lloyd Wright created some of his most significant works between ages 80 and 92.

That is one reason for the Heirloom Knowledge Collection - to provide a forum for our Elders to share some of their most important lessons learnt. Especially those lessons learnt through real, lived, embodied human experience.

A little bit more about Frank Lloyd Wright from the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation website:

"[Frank Lloyd Wright] changed the way we build and live. Designing 1,114 architectural works of all types — 532 of which were realized — he created some of the most innovative spaces in the United States. With a career that spanned seven decades before his death in 1959, Wright’s visionary work cemented his place as the American Institute of Architects’ “greatest American architect of all time.
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Wright devoted his life to promoting architecture as “the great mother art, behind which all others are definitely, distinctly and inevitably related.” Seeking a consistent expression of underlying unity, he drew inspiration from the Japanese idea of a culture in which every object, every human, and every action were integrated so as to make an entire civilization a work of art. Above all else, Wright’s vision served beauty. He believed that every man, woman and child had the right to live a beautiful life in beautiful circumstances and he sought to create an affordable architecture that served that aspiration."

(Source: https://franklloydwright.org/frank-lloyd-wright/)

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