This was not really an "interview" rather more of an inquisition. Mr. Wright, ever unflappable, handled it well and did his best to enlighten Mr. Wallace. Not sure he succeeded, though. "The mob is humanity going the wrong way." Simple, yet brilliant. Nature is God's true temple; St. Patrick's Cathedral is a testament to money and power. Very different levels of reverence, Mr. Wallace.
Living in a Frank Lloyd Wright house For almost 3 years now I have only one word to describe Frank Lloyd Wright Total genius The house is alive and at Nature and is very well situated to best suit the land around it The scampering of squirrels on the rooftop as well as the acorns that drop to the lightest of falling rain as if you're a living outside It's really freaking cool It took me years to find this home But more are coming available as older homeowners are passing on The homeowners I bought the home from had the home build 60 years ago They kept the home in immaculate condition
+hill hop People are beautiful and brilliant, we create magnificence, don't push your opinion on others in such a negative way, it makes you look wrong and kills the point you're attempting to make.
At 88 he can reel off his thoughts and opinions so decisively without missing a beat nor backpedaling " every time we express a reaction of this sort we give ourselves away "
Wow much more respect for Wright after watching this. Not only was his architecture ahead of the time but his political views are even more advanced than 70 percent of this idiotic country now 60 years ago.
I really wish this great figure in World history had lived much longer to learn more and more from him. His ideas are still valid and make more sense. God bless his soul!!
I am very pleasantly surprised. I expected him to be arrogant and aloof. This was a very enjoyable interview, and as others have commented, I think he out-shown Mike Wallace. He was very gracious and thoughtful about his responses.
Amazingly insightful interview. I listened to it at least 10 times already. Compared to today's journalists in the USA, Mike Wallace is doing pretty well. Despite not understanding almost any points FLW is making.
This is gold. Thank God it exists. In his 90's he was at the peak of his creativity, knowledge of science combined with deep political and philosophical insights. The clarity of thought, wisdom and his ability in seeing into the inner character and underlying truth of the total picture is profound to say the least. He was, in my book, one of the greatest architect and one of the greatest philosopher ever lived. Just imagine, if he could live another 90 years more, just what he could achieve. He already had a "whole country" and a "mile-high skyscraper " in mind. Damn, the bitter curse of aging. Our huge loss.
A way ahead of his time, politically, ethically and obviously architecturally... what an intelligent beautiful soul. Have so much respect! My goodness how interview styles have changed!...and then there is the cigarette!!! :D
"Every idea that is a true idea has a form, and is capable of many forms. The variety of forms of which it is capable determines the value of the idea. So by way of ideas, and your mastery of them in relation to what you are doing, will come your value as an architect to your society and future.' ~ Frank Lloyd Wright
Yeah that's a nice pseudophilosphical and convoluted quote but all it does is give architects the permission to create an ugly concrete monstrosity that I have to look at every day because the shape somehow relates to the hot political idea (which it doesn't because that's nonsense)
FLW was not "ahead of his time" as many are saying here. He was "of his time." Most everyone else was just way behind their times. As they are today when FLW's thinking is still current, still valid. It's not timely thinking, it's organic, as he calls it and like nature, it doesn't bear a date stamp.
im sorry but eventhough you are wright Wallace was extremely respectful so I dont blame him for this interview infact I think he did good in bringing the best of Wright to a more down to earth manner.
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he said Frank LLoyd wright fans will set the future in America and he's right. Steve Jobs was a big fan of Wright and based some of his design principles for Apple on Wright's ideas.
In some ways, SJ is a builder; therefore, an architect of sorts. Industrial design architect. But, like Wright, Jobs also must design the furniture, carpets, lamps and periphery as well as the outer shell and structures. ...Software & Hardware...
1:01 "Whether you agree or disagree we feel sure that none will deny the right of these views to be broadcast"...ARE YOU LISTENING, TOUTUBE? My goodness how things have changed. Nowadays media corporations decide what we should hear or not hear depending on their political and ideological bias.
Wow this extraordinary man was born in 1867, he was in his 20's in the 1890s and his 30s in 1900s, and in his 40s when titanic went down. Wow he was in his 50s in the 1920s and in his late 70s in the 1940s and died at age 91 in 1959.
In spite of his flaws imo the most important person of the 20th century. Not only for his Architecture, but philosophy and sensibilities. I consider my life an honorable one even in an attempt to carry this torch.
Watching this has made me realize how outraged the public get at those who stand as individuals in a world that seems to think that going WITH the grain is the easy way, so it must be the right way. It reminds me of individuals today who have been berated by the media such as Jordan Peterson. A man/woman that stands by their virtues in an ever shifting societal landscape for the good will always come out on top. FLW is proof, not only as an architectural genius but as a creative visionary.
I see his architecture and I think he must have traveled back in time to design these structures with the materials at-hand. Now I listen to him and he's talking, over 60 years ago, about what is taking place today. Thankfully there are young people today doing audacious things to improve the human condition, and I hope that much of what they are doing today comes to fruition.
This is simply amazing!! And, strangely, actual!... Everything is still valid nowadays! Incredible, thanks for this video and thank you FLW for sharing some Wisdom!...
He was flat out light years ahead of the general public then and now. He would really be squerming if he saw the present state of society and government today.
I know Mike Wallace was supposed to be a "bull dog" interviewer, but this interview just seemed like he was throwing jabs at FLW and trying to make him look foolish. He didn't succeed. Mr Wright was calm, cool, and collected throughout. Kudos to Mr Wright!
I don't know. It sounded like he wanted to get him to talk about views he knew would be interesting and controversial, and FLW was more than happy to oblige.
I guess I've just never been a fan of Dan Rather and his heavy-handed interviewing skills... On the other hand I admire Mr Wright and his works immensely!
Jabs is a good word for it. It was really reactionary, and didn't give Wright much chance to expand on his views before he moved on to the next question challenging his "unconventional" beliefs. I listened to an interview with Andy Warhol early in his career that reminded me of that, where the interviewer kept on advocating for this "everyman" approach and coming from the perspective that he was a crank and then his whole game-plan fell apart when it turned out that Warhol could provide cogent, coherent justifications on why he was bucking the status quo. I guess it's a product of the really conservative 1950s - certainly nowadays we're willing to jump on anyone who has a whiff - deserved or not - of being a "maverick" charging in with what looks like a new idea.
I found Wallace to be constantly attempting to capture Wright in conflicts of opinion, as if Wright's opinions should never have opportunity to change or develop over time. The first interview was in my view, somewhat of a forced nature having less to do about architecture and more to do about irrelavent topics, in a somewhat rushed manner. I think FLW should be commended for his restrainment of temper. I would've possibly criticized Wallace for his irrelavence of questions. Wallace never revealed how he got that advanced copy of FLW's autobiography before he did.
I would have thought he’d say Elvis fans can also be Frank Lloyd Wright fans. Why are the two things mutually exclusive? I like a lot of music I’m sure he’d disapprove of but I greatly admire his work.
Richard Barry At first I felt the same. Music is so important. It’s inspired art and architecture. But, I believe his age his and cultural understand would have interpreted Elvis not as an artist - he would respect that - but what he stood for. Commercialism. Manufactured. Corrupt. And of course fashionable. He was a hipster before there were hipsters. Remember it was 1957, he had no idea who Elvis would be one or what place in pop culture he would stand.
I don’t know if that was Wallace’s usual interview technique but that did sound more like a hit job to me. FLW handled it well, however this sums up to rather little architecture being discussed and a missed opportunity. Why Wright went back four weeks later for a ‘’Part 2’’ is a mystery.
Looking at Frank Lloyd Wright architecture stirs feelings of what America could of been, everything it had the potential to become, instead America floundered and wasted away, choosing War and Greed instead of Nature/Science and Exploration.
@@Godschild77786 Wright was a narcissist. He was convinced that he was superior to other people. The best book on Wright as a human is "The Fellowship".
I'm grateful for this interview, but in retrospect, Mike Wallace was completely out of sync with Wright, rushing it. Just an observation. Wright went along with it.
Mike Wallace then and later was a very cocky but very thorough interviewer. Frank Lloyd Wright was an amazing person. When we peel back the layers of this 91 year old man we see things that from a social perspective were not so positive. He was born in 1867 - just two years after the American Civil War and he lived until 1959 - the dawn of the jet age. He was very aware of the present. Very much a man of the moment. But we ignore certain things bout him and so Mr. Wallace seems like a vulture on the attack and Mr. Wright appears magnanimous in the hands of this pretender. Wright is a complex individual. If we judge him just on his work then we must include many that are excluded - some few know anything about. We must recognize thousands of people who were part of his school of thought. These were not mere assistants - by this point in time they were integral to his success. You can see that in the work of William Wesley Peters and others. Peters though is a good example of what I refer to. Without Peters, Wright would have been broke. And he would have lost Taliesin - at least three times Wes bailed him out. And Wes sacrificed his life for Wright - quite literally. Gene Masselink is another man that was sacrificed - at the hands of Olgivanna. Gene died of heart failure because Mrs. Wright was so brutal. And by this time she was brutal to and with her husband at times. He ignored it because he was old and because he loved her. And she did love him - but she was a manipulative, conniving individual who was very powerful, strong and resourceful. Mike Wallace knew his subject. Wright had made statements while in NY about the pending work with the Guggenheim and he decried Lever House by Skidmore even though Mies could do no wrong in his eyes. Wallace knew a lot of people. And he had seen Wright at work. Wright was politically naïve. He really had no idea what liberal or conservative really meant. When the socialists of the Eastern Bloc approached him he accepted their invitation despite the fact he probably shouldn't have. Wright was an intellectual thief - most geniuses are. And yes it's theft. He made the work of others seem like his own - and he did this often - particularly to the apprentices - and some resented him for it. Many of the most ingenious things in his houses - not all - but many were instituted by craftsman and or the apprentices from the fellowship at the site - particularly in the case of the Robie House and in the case of many of the Usonians. Wright could be very, very inflexible. Fallingwater is a good example. The cantilever was madness - and no critics - it didn't work - it failed. If Edgar Kaufman, Sr. hadn't connived behind Wright's back the house would have failed utterly. But Kaufman convinced Wright that structural engineers were absolutely required - and Wright finally saw that "his idea" of hiring a structural engineer might have some merit. Some people couldn't stand Wright for various reasons - Phillip Johnson was one of them. Keep in mind that the Usonian was first introduced in 1937 and because of some rather shrewd manipulation on the part of he and his wife - by 1953 or so his career took off. Believe me when I say it had not been that successful prior. If we look at the quantity of work he booked between 1950 and 1959 it was far, far more than he had seen prior to that. Wright would deposit a check before he'd done one scrap of work on a house. And that would be fine if he could provide the support needed to build it - but quite often - he couldn't. So he played a game of musical commissions and this sometimes caught up with him. Various disparaging names dogged him in Spring Green and in Chicago. And yes Wright was starving to death - or nearly so - between 1919 and 1934. He nearly lost everything - many, many times. And any other man would have gone to prison for some of the stunts he pulled but for his rather silver tongue. I love and admire the man and his work - but I'm a realist. Many of his devotees aren't. Many despise me when I criticize him. But my thinking is based on biographies that are well substantiated. His "daddy" issues for instance - he insisted his father abandoned him - when in reality his mother was a tyrant and drove her husband away.
We admire him for what he has done for architecture, no matter how he has done it. All of the greatest revolutionary people, as humans have the most flaws than all of us. Many have gotten to their success in not the best way however, they made a difference. You are judging the man, we are judging the man based on his work. His work is magnificent and a piece of art a person can live in and all future architects strive to be as revolutionary and as passionate about their work as Mr.Wright was. As for stealing, they always say that about the greatest of architects, not just him. Everyone has stolen from someone in their past or present. Ideas don't come from thin air, they are developed, updated and made better. That is what he is great for. taking something and making it better, putting it in the forefront. So please, next time don't write a long history about who his admirers are and what they don't understand about his flawed character, because we are awesome and we know about his flawed character, we don't hear his words, we let his works speak for him. Thank you! p.s Wallace may be a great interviewer but his bias here is evident and very dislikable, he has no followthrough on his questions and has no capability to debate anything Lloyd answers, there is where he fails for me. Anyone can ask simple made beforehand questions, a few can followup based on the nuanced answers that he is given.
@@addo-ajjalani9046 Geniuses are given a pass. The other day I noted a revisionist who said Edison was a thief. That he stole most of his greatest successes. Perhaps the only place where one can 'feel' his presence is really at Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan. It's important to note that Edison was a full partner in preserving his heritage there. The laboratory from Menlo Park is technically in NJ. The dirt was carted from Menlo Park to rural, farmland in Dearborn, a hole was dug, the dirt reused elsewhere. And his boyhood home was moved there lock, stock and barrel. The rooming house where the first home lighting with bulbs were implemented. Dynamos, incredible engines and a gorgeous recorder are still there. One of several. He KNEW he was a thief. He didn't deny it. He made claims that were bald-faced lies. His great accomplishments weren't the light bulb which Lumiere had fashioned so many years before. The phonograph wasn't new. It was his other inventions. He stole a great deal from Westinghouse and from Tesla. Those two - Edison and Westinghouse broke Tesla I think. Wright wasn't that revolutionary. The flat, long house he stole from the Dampferstyl in Germany as well as the low slung houses that were his first great period. Wright built Fallingwater, perhaps his greatest accomplishment, called himself America's greatest architect but in reality Fallingwater as some have pointed out was an engineering disaster. People told Mr. Wright that the home couldn't be suspended over the river and around the tree in the manner in which he did so. This isn't some startling modern revelation. Structural engineers made fun of him before he started. And then at least one firm booked a good deal of revenue from a secretive Edgar Kaufman, Sr. Himself no paragon of virtue. A serial philanderer. A homophobe. A man who emerged on his own at the expense of his family. Wright knew kindred when he met them. But he also used people and used the badly. In some cases he ruined them. He could have brought George Elmslie. Elmslie left but only after Wright had purposely outshined him.
@@KevinHandydfw yes they are given a pass, and rightly so! Tesla as well gets a pass and is made to seem better than Edison, even though he was a madman and even though half of his accomplishments were exaggerated and are to this day. While Edison is hated by all now because of looking at the world through this type of lense. Also if it wasn't for Edisons company Tesla might not even be known today. Also, Einstein personally was awful, married his cousin yet spoke about how he through science wanted to get closer to god. I mean lets go even bigger, we have democracy which is accredited to Napoleon yet he got there through wars which we know how they started and ended. My point is which it seems a bit like you are not willing to accept, is that all great men and women of history are both good and bad and have a lot of faults. If you are angry because of the fact that he proclaimed himself the greatest architect then I think you are hung up on something really insignificant. Who among the greatest has not said that once in their lifetime?.However, you pointing out a few negatives does not remove all the incredible things they have accomplished. Half of the modern architecture is stolen, the Oslo museum is taken from an Opera house in North Macedonia.. but no one knows that now do they. However, they elevated the design, the engineering, and architecture approach and that is why the museum in Oslo is more recognized and far more superior. That is how things work. Again he was revolutionary, he took a style and elevated it, the engineers laughed at him? The houses are still standing, problematical, however, there is not a person alive that doesn't know it or an architect alive that hasn't studied it and become a better architect through it. All this work is stolen..? www.independent.co.uk/travel/americas/frank-lloyd-wright-architect-best-buildings-anniversary-guggenheim-a9101396.html In addition let me say this, clearly, you like letting people know of your knowledge of things, why not try and elevate the good they have done instead of pointing out all their wrongs. Speak about Teslas accomplishments, not Edisons faults or.. mention an even greater Architect you admire and speak of his accomplishments as opposed to some of Wrights. No matter how much you try these people will remain in history because they did something right. I believe that is what we should focus on and learn from. At the end of the day, they are just people. (and before you say that by pointing out the awful we stop admiring people that should not be admired, I agree, to a certain extent. But when the positives outweigh the bad, unless you were personally there, we can never know for sure what really happened.) History is written by the winners but also contradicted, hated and twisted by the losers.
A stunning man. Indeed, he was born 100 years too early - and we are much poorer in the 21st century as a result of his absence.
This was not really an "interview" rather more of an inquisition. Mr. Wright, ever unflappable, handled it well and did his best to enlighten Mr. Wallace. Not sure he succeeded, though. "The mob is humanity going the wrong way." Simple, yet brilliant. Nature is God's true temple; St. Patrick's Cathedral is a testament to money and power. Very different levels of reverence, Mr. Wallace.
I have been trying to stop watching this for 35 minutes now and get back to work but I cannot stop.
it is very intriguing
A Great Mind, totally beyond the concept of the interviewer.
Totally
I know Mr. Frank Lloyd Wright expressed great architecture, but I didn't expect him to be way more beautiful on the inside. Now I'm REALLY a fan. :)
Living in a Frank Lloyd Wright house
For almost 3 years now
I have only one word to describe Frank Lloyd Wright
Total genius
The house is alive and at Nature and is very well situated to best suit the land around it
The scampering of squirrels on the rooftop as well as the acorns that
drop to the lightest of falling rain
as if you're a living outside
It's really freaking cool
It took me years to find this home
But more are coming available as older homeowners are passing on
The homeowners I bought the home from had the home build 60 years ago
They kept the home in immaculate condition
Which house is it?
+hill hop People are beautiful and brilliant, we create magnificence, don't push your opinion on others in such a negative way, it makes you look wrong and kills the point you're attempting to make.
hill hop
God creates genuis'
What are you saying?
Get over the judgemental paranoias - the fundamentalists control people with -
Franky Split
Said with a great deal more Grace than I managed ! ☮
VERY WELL DONE!
Faith is not belief without evidence. It's the substance of things hoped for; the evidence of things not seen.
At 88 he can reel off his thoughts and opinions so decisively without missing a beat nor backpedaling
" every time we express a reaction of this sort we give ourselves away "
Wow much more respect for Wright after watching this. Not only was his architecture ahead of the time but his political views are even more advanced than 70 percent of this idiotic country now 60 years ago.
Can you imagine how the Mobocracy would react to his honesty today ?
I really wish this great figure in World history had lived much longer to learn more and more from him. His ideas are still valid and make more sense. God bless his soul!!
Mr. Frank Loyd Wright, was a once the the history of the planet genius.
Everything he says is pure gold. This took me like 2 hours to watch because I rewatched nearly every moment.
Same
We're 63 years down the Drain from when this was interviewed. Frank would jump off the planet if he had't already died.
He was right, he is immortal, till to this decade and many more decades to come
This must be the greatest interview I’ve ever seen, and FLW owned the whole entirety of it...incredible.
Great minds finds solutions all the time.
Ahh the smokes back in the day.
When I was little everyone had an ash tray and it was perfectly acceptable to smoke everywhere.
What an amazing man!
Tears in my eyes, fab interview, Frank Lloyd Wright - a beautiful soul..
This interview is gold
Elizabeth Grant brought me here but this is truly a great interview
Frank Lloyd a true renaissance man. Humble, direct to the point, and very thoughtful.
one of the greatest interviews i've ever seen and heard
I am very pleasantly surprised. I expected him to be arrogant and aloof. This was a very enjoyable interview, and as others have commented, I think he out-shown Mike Wallace. He was very gracious and thoughtful about his responses.
A progressive architect and a progressive thinker. Goes hand in hand really.
Frank Lloyd Wright - truly an all rounder class.
Amazingly insightful interview. I listened to it at least 10 times already. Compared to today's journalists in the USA, Mike Wallace is doing pretty well. Despite not understanding almost any points FLW is making.
The cigarette smoke, combined with Black and White, makes for a great Film Noir aesthetic effect.
This is gold. Thank God it exists. In his 90's he was at the peak of his creativity, knowledge of science combined with deep political and philosophical insights. The clarity of thought, wisdom and his ability in seeing into the inner character and underlying truth of the total picture is profound to say the least. He was, in my book, one of the greatest architect and one of the greatest philosopher ever lived. Just imagine, if he could live another 90 years more, just what he could achieve. He already had a "whole country" and a "mile-high skyscraper " in mind. Damn, the bitter curse of aging. Our huge loss.
A way ahead of his time, politically, ethically and obviously architecturally... what an intelligent beautiful soul. Have so much respect!
My goodness how interview styles have changed!...and then there is the cigarette!!! :D
"Every idea that is a true idea has a form, and is capable of many forms. The variety of forms of which it is capable determines the value of the idea. So by way of ideas, and your mastery of them in relation to what you are doing, will come your value as an architect to your society and future.' ~ Frank Lloyd Wright
Yeah that's a nice pseudophilosphical and convoluted quote but all it does is give architects the permission to create an ugly concrete monstrosity that I have to look at every day because the shape somehow relates to the hot political idea (which it doesn't because that's nonsense)
My god, what an incredible person. Every answer hits the spot. Reminds me of Howard Roark.
Especially the part about arrogance
I think Howard Roark was based on Wright
This interview is absolutely amazing, before the infsntilization of America
What a charming man.
super weird, different. I don't think he was faking it.
What a wonderful time capsule !!
FLW was not "ahead of his time" as many are saying here. He was "of his time." Most everyone else was just way behind their times. As they are today when FLW's thinking is still current, still valid. It's not timely thinking, it's organic, as he calls it and like nature, it doesn't bear a date stamp.
FLW's intelligence completely overwhelms that of Wallace, so much so that it actually made me cringe.
im sorry but eventhough you are wright Wallace was extremely respectful so I dont blame him for this interview infact I think he did good in bringing the best of Wright to a more down to earth manner.
Yep - very disrespectful.
A man ahead of his time
Japanese architecture is the sorce for Mr. Write and is the secrete nobody is talking about. He was a well traveled man. Japan was his favorite
*Hello!👋It's official. This historical video of the fascinating and inspiring interview of Frank Lloyd Wright with Mike Wallace back in September 1957, was submitted 10 years ago on THIS very day back on Tuesday, January 13th, 2014. Which means that this video is now officially, 10 years old! So, Happy 10 Year Anniversary to the Frank Lloyd Wright Interview! 😄🥳🎈🎉🎊And Just imagine, in exactly another 10 years from now, this video will be 20 years old on the future date of Friday, January 13th, 2034. and in conclusion, may the legacy of Frank Lloyd Wright live on in our hearts and in his beautiful buildings all over the world for years to come. Especially when we celebrate Mr Wright's 200th Birthday by the next and much further future date of Wednesday, June 8th, 2067. Rest In Peace Frank Lloyd Wright. 1867 - 1959. 1-13-2024 7:00 PM*
Fascinating study of how to communicate your truth even through the slowing, distracting interviewer with biased agenda.
Great answer about respect! 12:18
This should be shown in every school in America. We used to have men who were revered. We don't have them anymore.
What a GENIUS. My kind of human/man, very rare in this world, especially in the U.S.A.
the world is populated by elvis presley fans and not enough flw fans.
Nature has not failed me.
garagedancer Is that you in this picture? Cute :)
my name is...the cigarette is;;;SHOCKING!!!
Awesome interviews. His views and advice are especially relevant today.
One of the greatest interviews, one of the greatest men...
he said Frank LLoyd wright fans will set the future in America and he's right. Steve Jobs was a big fan of Wright and based some of his design principles for Apple on Wright's ideas.
Steve Jobs was a jerk and obviously did not comprehend the full import of Wright
Mr. P - Jobs may have said that, but I don’t see it. The designs of several products which he influenced show a distinct postmodern influence.
Steve Job's design ideas were influenced by Dieter Rams, I honestly don't see any connection between the design of Apple and FLW
In some ways, SJ is a builder; therefore, an architect of sorts. Industrial design architect. But, like Wright, Jobs also must design the furniture, carpets, lamps and periphery as well as the outer shell and structures.
...Software & Hardware...
An individualist.
1:01 "Whether you agree or disagree we feel sure that none will deny the right of these views to be broadcast"...ARE YOU LISTENING, TOUTUBE? My goodness how things have changed. Nowadays media corporations decide what we should hear or not hear depending on their political and ideological bias.
Excellent interview, very enlightening. Wright has the best responses. I loved that he said Marilyn Monroe has excellent architecture! Love it!
another real man, I agree !
frank lloyd wright is very underestimated
Wow this extraordinary man was born in 1867, he was in his 20's in the 1890s and his 30s in 1900s, and in his 40s when titanic went down. Wow he was in his 50s in the 1920s and in his late 70s in the 1940s and died at age 91 in 1959.
I heard he was 92 when he passed away.!!
every building Frank Lloyd Wright ever designed was the w(right) building , pun intended. lol
An amazing interview. A document to be studied by those who which to glimpse into the mind of genius.
In spite of his flaws imo the most important person of the 20th century. Not only for his Architecture, but philosophy and sensibilities. I consider my life an honorable one even in an attempt to carry this torch.
Incredible
Greatest architect in history.
Watching this has made me realize how outraged the public get at those who stand as individuals in a world that seems to think that going WITH the grain is the easy way, so it must be the right way.
It reminds me of individuals today who have been berated by the media such as Jordan Peterson. A man/woman that stands by their virtues in an ever shifting societal landscape for the good will always come out on top. FLW is proof, not only as an architectural genius but as a creative visionary.
I actually agree a lot with MR Lloyd wright on a lot of levels.
A legend
Magnificent last words, and “ Immoral “ indeed🍃🦋🍃🍃🍃
I see his architecture and I think he must have traveled back in time to design these structures with the materials at-hand. Now I listen to him and he's talking, over 60 years ago, about what is taking place today. Thankfully there are young people today doing audacious things to improve the human condition, and I hope that much of what they are doing today comes to fruition.
Uma pérola!!!!
MOST talented ever
I have that book, and wish it was autographed!
This is simply amazing!! And, strangely, actual!... Everything is still valid nowadays! Incredible, thanks for this video and thank you FLW for sharing some Wisdom!...
These are superb interviews. Contrast them with the complete rubbish and purile nonsense tv is filled with today. How has tv fallen so far?
exellent and nice video'''''''''''''' good frank wow ............
He was flat out light years ahead of the general public then and now. He would really be squerming if he saw the present state of society and government today.
I love this interview ! I love the way both of them talk...
He would have loved telecommuting and the Internet.
Genialidad de hombre.
It's still of interest to those listening
Sheer brilliance.
Thank you! And i"m happy when i watched this video, thank you 💛👀❤
THANK YOU FOR THE RECOMMENDATION TH-cam. I AM NOW INSPIRED TO DO MY DESIGN.
I know Mike Wallace was supposed to be a "bull dog" interviewer, but this interview just seemed like he was throwing jabs at FLW and trying to make him look foolish. He didn't succeed. Mr Wright was calm, cool, and collected throughout. Kudos to Mr Wright!
I don't know. It sounded like he wanted to get him to talk about views he knew would be interesting and controversial, and FLW was more than happy to oblige.
I guess I've just never been a fan of Dan Rather and his heavy-handed interviewing skills... On the other hand I admire Mr Wright and his works immensely!
Jabs is a good word for it. It was really reactionary, and didn't give Wright much chance to expand on his views before he moved on to the next question challenging his "unconventional" beliefs.
I listened to an interview with Andy Warhol early in his career that reminded me of that, where the interviewer kept on advocating for this "everyman" approach and coming from the perspective that he was a crank and then his whole game-plan fell apart when it turned out that Warhol could provide cogent, coherent justifications on why he was bucking the status quo.
I guess it's a product of the really conservative 1950s - certainly nowadays we're willing to jump on anyone who has a whiff - deserved or not - of being a "maverick" charging in with what looks like a new idea.
I found Wallace to be constantly attempting to capture Wright in conflicts of opinion, as if Wright's opinions should never have opportunity to change or develop over time. The first interview was in my view, somewhat of a forced nature having less to do about architecture and more to do about irrelavent topics, in a somewhat rushed manner. I think FLW should be commended for his restrainment of temper.
I would've possibly criticized Wallace for his irrelavence of questions. Wallace never revealed how he got that advanced copy of FLW's autobiography before he did.
@@p.g.rockwell4 its not dan rather dude...
fantastic
I would have thought he’d say Elvis fans can also be Frank Lloyd Wright fans. Why are the two things mutually exclusive? I like a lot of music I’m sure he’d disapprove of but I greatly admire his work.
Richard Barry At first I felt the same. Music is so important. It’s inspired art and architecture.
But, I believe his age his and cultural understand would have interpreted Elvis not as an artist - he would respect that - but what he stood for. Commercialism. Manufactured. Corrupt. And of course fashionable. He was a hipster before there were hipsters. Remember it was 1957, he had no idea who Elvis would be one or what place in pop culture he would stand.
Anonymous FLW would be absolutely blown away by the state of things today - and you make a good point about what Elvis really represented
thank you
I always thought frank lloyd wright was a great architect, but let me correct myself "He was a genius"
FLW... a true genius... I love 50's modern art/lamps.
I'm sure this interview offends a lot of NPC/ snowflakes in todays outrage culture. But to me he is an inspiration, he speaks the truth.
I don’t know if that was Wallace’s usual interview technique but that did sound more like a hit job to me. FLW handled it well, however this sums up to rather little architecture being discussed and a missed opportunity. Why Wright went back four weeks later for a ‘’Part 2’’ is a mystery.
Looking at Frank Lloyd Wright architecture stirs feelings of what America could of been, everything it had the potential to become, instead America floundered and wasted away, choosing War and Greed instead of Nature/Science and Exploration.
Well stated!
true visionary
Damn, this guy is so cool!
What a guy!
I have to stop watching this video. Mike Wallace, a media pimp, interviewing a genius.
Remarkable man
Frank Lloyd wrights sense of humour is good.Sarcastic but good.
A Wright sense of humour...must be English...LOL...
Excellent architect.
Crippled human.
Why do you say Crippled human?
Am at the beginning of the interview
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Wright was a narcissist. He was convinced that he was superior to other people. The best book on Wright as a human is "The Fellowship".
you're the man
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I'm grateful for this interview, but in retrospect, Mike Wallace was completely out of sync with Wright, rushing it. Just an observation. Wright went along with it.
Wallace flourishes that cigarette like a tart waving from a bordello.
thx
Mike Wallace then and later was a very cocky but very thorough interviewer. Frank Lloyd Wright was an amazing person. When we peel back the layers of this 91 year old man we see things that from a social perspective were not so positive. He was born in 1867 - just two years after the American Civil War and he lived until 1959 - the dawn of the jet age. He was very aware of the present. Very much a man of the moment. But we ignore certain things bout him and so Mr. Wallace seems like a vulture on the attack and Mr. Wright appears magnanimous in the hands of this pretender. Wright is a complex individual. If we judge him just on his work then we must include many that are excluded - some few know anything about. We must recognize thousands of people who were part of his school of thought. These were not mere assistants - by this point in time they were integral to his success. You can see that in the work of William Wesley Peters and others. Peters though is a good example of what I refer to.
Without Peters, Wright would have been broke. And he would have lost Taliesin - at least three times Wes bailed him out. And Wes sacrificed his life for Wright - quite literally. Gene Masselink is another man that was sacrificed - at the hands of Olgivanna. Gene died of heart failure because Mrs. Wright was so brutal. And by this time she was brutal to and with her husband at times. He ignored it because he was old and because he loved her. And she did love him - but she was a manipulative, conniving individual who was very powerful, strong and resourceful. Mike Wallace knew his subject. Wright had made statements while in NY about the pending work with the Guggenheim and he decried Lever House by Skidmore even though Mies could do no wrong in his eyes. Wallace knew a lot of people. And he had seen Wright at work. Wright was politically naïve. He really had no idea what liberal or conservative really meant. When the socialists of the Eastern Bloc approached him he accepted their invitation despite the fact he probably shouldn't have.
Wright was an intellectual thief - most geniuses are. And yes it's theft. He made the work of others seem like his own - and he did this often - particularly to the apprentices - and some resented him for it. Many of the most ingenious things in his houses - not all - but many were instituted by craftsman and or the apprentices from the fellowship at the site - particularly in the case of the Robie House and in the case of many of the Usonians. Wright could be very, very inflexible. Fallingwater is a good example. The cantilever was madness - and no critics - it didn't work - it failed. If Edgar Kaufman, Sr. hadn't connived behind Wright's back the house would have failed utterly. But Kaufman convinced Wright that structural engineers were absolutely required - and Wright finally saw that "his idea" of hiring a structural engineer might have some merit.
Some people couldn't stand Wright for various reasons - Phillip Johnson was one of them. Keep in mind that the Usonian was first introduced in 1937 and because of some rather shrewd manipulation on the part of he and his wife - by 1953 or so his career took off. Believe me when I say it had not been that successful prior. If we look at the quantity of work he booked between 1950 and 1959 it was far, far more than he had seen prior to that. Wright would deposit a check before he'd done one scrap of work on a house. And that would be fine if he could provide the support needed to build it - but quite often - he couldn't. So he played a game of musical commissions and this sometimes caught up with him. Various disparaging names dogged him in Spring Green and in Chicago. And yes Wright was starving to death - or nearly so - between 1919 and 1934. He nearly lost everything - many, many times. And any other man would have gone to prison for some of the stunts he pulled but for his rather silver tongue.
I love and admire the man and his work - but I'm a realist. Many of his devotees aren't. Many despise me when I criticize him. But my thinking is based on biographies that are well substantiated. His "daddy" issues for instance - he insisted his father abandoned him - when in reality his mother was a tyrant and drove her husband away.
We admire him for what he has done for architecture, no matter how he has done it. All of the greatest revolutionary people, as humans have the most flaws than all of us. Many have gotten to their success in not the best way however, they made a difference. You are judging the man, we are judging the man based on his work. His work is magnificent and a piece of art a person can live in and all future architects strive to be as revolutionary and as passionate about their work as Mr.Wright was. As for stealing, they always say that about the greatest of architects, not just him. Everyone has stolen from someone in their past or present. Ideas don't come from thin air, they are developed, updated and made better. That is what he is great for. taking something and making it better, putting it in the forefront. So please, next time don't write a long history about who his admirers are and what they don't understand about his flawed character, because we are awesome and we know about his flawed character, we don't hear his words, we let his works speak for him. Thank you!
p.s Wallace may be a great interviewer but his bias here is evident and very dislikable, he has no followthrough on his questions and has no capability to debate anything Lloyd answers, there is where he fails for me. Anyone can ask simple made beforehand questions, a few can followup based on the nuanced answers that he is given.
@@addo-ajjalani9046 Geniuses are given a pass. The other day I noted a revisionist who said Edison was a thief. That he stole most of his greatest successes. Perhaps the only place where one can 'feel' his presence is really at Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan. It's important to note that Edison was a full partner in preserving his heritage there. The laboratory from Menlo Park is technically in NJ. The dirt was carted from Menlo Park to rural, farmland in Dearborn, a hole was dug, the dirt reused elsewhere. And his boyhood home was moved there lock, stock and barrel. The rooming house where the first home lighting with bulbs were implemented. Dynamos, incredible engines and a gorgeous recorder are still there. One of several. He KNEW he was a thief. He didn't deny it. He made claims that were bald-faced lies. His great accomplishments weren't the light bulb which Lumiere had fashioned so many years before. The phonograph wasn't new. It was his other inventions. He stole a great deal from Westinghouse and from Tesla. Those two - Edison and Westinghouse broke Tesla I think. Wright wasn't that revolutionary. The flat, long house he stole from the Dampferstyl in Germany as well as the low slung houses that were his first great period. Wright built Fallingwater, perhaps his greatest accomplishment, called himself America's greatest architect but in reality Fallingwater as some have pointed out was an engineering disaster. People told Mr. Wright that the home couldn't be suspended over the river and around the tree in the manner in which he did so. This isn't some startling modern revelation. Structural engineers made fun of him before he started. And then at least one firm booked a good deal of revenue from a secretive Edgar Kaufman, Sr. Himself no paragon of virtue. A serial philanderer. A homophobe. A man who emerged on his own at the expense of his family. Wright knew kindred when he met them. But he also used people and used the badly. In some cases he ruined them. He could have brought George Elmslie. Elmslie left but only after Wright had purposely outshined him.
@@KevinHandydfw yes they are given a pass, and rightly so! Tesla as well gets a pass and is made to seem better than Edison, even though he was a madman and even though half of his accomplishments were exaggerated and are to this day. While Edison is hated by all now because of looking at the world through this type of lense. Also if it wasn't for Edisons company Tesla might not even be known today. Also, Einstein personally was awful, married his cousin yet spoke about how he through science wanted to get closer to god. I mean lets go even bigger, we have democracy which is accredited to Napoleon yet he got there through wars which we know how they started and ended.
My point is which it seems a bit like you are not willing to accept, is that all great men and women of history are both good and bad and have a lot of faults. If you are angry because of the fact that he proclaimed himself the greatest architect then I think you are hung up on something really insignificant. Who among the greatest has not said that once in their lifetime?.However, you pointing out a few negatives does not remove all the incredible things they have accomplished. Half of the modern architecture is stolen, the Oslo museum is taken from an Opera house in North Macedonia.. but no one knows that now do they. However, they elevated the design, the engineering, and architecture approach and that is why the museum in Oslo is more recognized and far more superior.
That is how things work. Again he was revolutionary, he took a style and elevated it, the engineers laughed at him? The houses are still standing, problematical, however, there is not a person alive that doesn't know it or an architect alive that hasn't studied it and become a better architect through it.
All this work is stolen..?
www.independent.co.uk/travel/americas/frank-lloyd-wright-architect-best-buildings-anniversary-guggenheim-a9101396.html
In addition let me say this, clearly, you like letting people know of your knowledge of things, why not try and elevate the good they have done instead of pointing out all their wrongs. Speak about Teslas accomplishments, not Edisons faults or.. mention an even greater Architect you admire and speak of his accomplishments as opposed to some of Wrights. No matter how much you try these people will remain in history because they did something right. I believe that is what we should focus on and learn from. At the end of the day, they are just people.
(and before you say that by pointing out the awful we stop admiring people that should not be admired, I agree, to a certain extent. But when the positives outweigh the bad, unless you were personally there, we can never know for sure what really happened.) History is written by the winners but also contradicted, hated and twisted by the losers.
11:10 this interview already made me feel sad. It is great that Frank Lloyd Wright's ideas are now accepted, right?