I happened to see this guy sitting up on the roof--a repairman, I assumed, though a bit mysterious, as he was just sitting there, watching me while I was watching him. After I had taken a couple of shots, he took out his cell phone, so I skedaddled.
Note the evenly-spaced horizontals in the stonework, recalling Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie Style, with its low profile and long, fluent latitudes graven in stone and brick, as well as the dramatic overhang floating above the sidewalk, unsupported by any vertical posts, emulating the dramatic cantilevers in Wright's houses, most famous of all, his Robie House in Chicago.
The great American architect teaches the Florentines a thing or two.
No comments:
Post a Comment