Frank Lloyd Wright uses a mac! sort of ...

[redeye be]

In 1950 Frank Lloyd Wright designed a home to be built on a private island on lake mahopac in new york.
Thomas A. Heinz, one of Wright's students used a Mac to "understand" and build the design.

I've always been a fan of Frank's architecture, nice to know he would be using a Mac right now.

http://www.apple.com/pro/profiles/heinz/

 

[clayj]

Somehow I doubt that FLW would use ANY computer... I'd imagine him to be a purist who'd only want to use paper to articulate what he saw inside his head.

Good read, though.

 

[Doctor Q]

The movie should be fun to watch (on PBS in the fall).

Why do they say a Mac was used to "reverse-engineer" Wright's drawings? Wouldn't it be "engineering" if they were going from drawings to full plans?

 

[IJ Reilly]

The movie should be fun to watch (on PBS in the fall).

Why do they say a Mac was used to "reverse-engineer" Wright's drawings? Wouldn't it be "engineering" if they were going from drawings to full plans?

Wright's structural solutions were notoriously unconventional. I think the term "reverse engineering" refers to the need of the architect interpreting Wright's sketches to figure out how Wright intended the building to work structurally.