Thursday, April 29, 2021

Reconcilable differences

Schauspielhaus (1970, Bernard Pfau), Düsseldorf, Germany, 2005. Photo: Joe Shoe (CC BY 2.0).
Schauspielhaus, 2012. Photo: Sebastian Hoppe (CC BY-SA 3.0 DE).
Few Modernist architects were as diametrically opposed to each other in architectural philosophy, design and construction as Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright. The former conceived architecture as the generator of a "machine for living," while the latter shaped his designs organically in a way that reflected the forms, contours and substances of nature.