"So, Kid ---"

Meyer May House - Grand Rapids, Michigan

“So kid ---- if you want to be a better photographer, stand in from of better stuff,” was the advice an old Daily News photographer gave young Joe McNally, when he was starting out. Frank Lloyd Wright certainly gave us all better stuff to look at. If you stop to think about where architecture was when he started and that a profound influence he had on shaping the changes in architecture...

 Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art. - Frank Lloyd Wright

 Space is the breath of art.  - Frank Lloyd Wright

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood.

Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union  - Frank Lloyd Wright

 The space within becomes the reality of the building. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet.

He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

 Wright's work is wonderfully organic, natural and speaks to the heart with a sense of beauty and dynamic equilibrium. The warmth of wood, the play of light, the use of architectural elements to represent the natural world within the four walls of a home is not only a signature, but each structure feels like a poem. More than an architect, Wright seems a philosopher who uses brick, mortar, wood.... - Owaissa

 All images made with a Lumix GF-1 with 20mm f1.7 lens.

@ 2012 Photo Pro - Jeffrey P. Hopp