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04 Jan 2010, 11:21 am

Who is your favorite architect?

Mine is Gaudi, who designed the Sagrada Familia cathedral in Barcelona, Spain.

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04 Jan 2010, 11:50 am

Nice topic, Tim.

Mine is Hundertwasser.
I also like Gaudí; I visited Barcelona a few years ago and I went to Parc Guell and the Sagrada Família.

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04 Jan 2010, 12:05 pm

I want to go to Barcelona one of these days as well.

Some of the structures built for the 1992 Olympics are outstanding.

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04 Jan 2010, 12:27 pm

Ooh, good question. I'm not a fan of Norman Foster per se, but The Sage is the most wonderfullest music venue. Sure, it looks like a beached whale from the outside, but the inside is fantastic (one large hall and one round hall with several layers of seats; both acoustically great). Not sure if he was the designer personally but it was his company at any rate.

My least favourite architect is Victor Passmore.

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04 Jan 2010, 1:29 pm

Art VanDalay :wink:

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04 Jan 2010, 1:53 pm

Alvar Aalto and other Finnish modernists whos' names are impossible to pronounce and/or remember

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04 Jan 2010, 2:59 pm

I must say, I'm a fan of most of Frank Gehry's works. Also, Arthur Erickson designed some buildings that I liked.

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04 Jan 2010, 3:53 pm

Yay! I've been to Barcelona, it's amazing - surprises round every corner... definitely go if you get the chance! Gaudi is so unique. The fountain in one of the parks that he designed is amazing.

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04 Jan 2010, 4:11 pm

One of these days I might visit Fallingwater a couple hundred miles west of where I live. It was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

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04 Jan 2010, 5:08 pm

loooooooooool (etc.)

This could go in the "misheard lyrics" thread.

I never could work out what the words to the bridge bit in "So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright." I thought it was something like "Auggie takes me coming, Auggie takes me going..." which made no sense, but I thought, well, hey, must be someone called Augustus giving him a lift somewhere. Only it's "Architects may come and architects may go..." :lol: :lol:

That's that one cleared up.

(and I ain't too dim, I did know who FLW was - just too dim to work it out - maybe that makes me even dimmer!)

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09 Jan 2010, 7:52 pm

richie wrote:

One of these days I might visit Fallingwater a couple hundred miles west of where I live. It was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

i'd like to visit there too, but it's about 400 miles east of where i live.
plenty of FLW around this way, though.

i kinda dig Mies VanDerRohe, too.

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