A Puzzle for the Architect Types

Stinkie

Errrrr ... Sant'Elia Nursery School in Como, by Terragni?

dvd63

YES BRAVO!!!

Stinkie

lol. This one's far too easy, but I couldn't resist posting the image. Isn't this a beauty?

jeff hammond

@unknownuser said:

lol. This one's far too easy, but I couldn't resist posting the image. Isn't this a beauty?

that looks like something by frank lloyd wright.

Stinkie

frowns

Jeffrey! In my office at once!

jeff hammond

haha.. what?

Stinkie

It doesn't look anything like Wright!

off looking for cane

Edit: lol! You've stumbled upon something!! There's a link!

jeff hammond

really? nothing like wright?
it was just a guess from someone that doesn't study architecture but it's not even a little bit like his stuff?
maybe i'm thinking of someone else though but i doubt it (f.l.wright is the guggenheim guy right?)
i'm going to go google some of his houses.

[edit] maybe i was thinking of this

Stinkie

Yeah, the Guggenheim guy. Seriously though, you're on to something. Wright's Fallingwater and the house of which I posted an image have something in common. (Which I didn't know before you spurred my curiosity.)

jeff hammond

yeah, i know.. i was just making a puzzle inside a puzzle.

BS

Stinkie

lol. And yeah, okay, there are some similarities between the images we posted. Though I like mine better. I've never grown fond of Wright. I genuinely respect his work, but I do not love it. Apart from his drawings, that is. Some of those are very, very beautiful. Still ... not as beautiful as the ones by the architect who designed the house of which I posted a pic.

pilou

Classical XX

Dave R

I don't know if anyone has even attempted to figure out the last building I posted but here's the answer. It's the Plummer Building designed through a collaboration between Dr. Henry Plummer and Ellerbe & Co. At the time it was completed, in 1928, it was the tallest building in the State of Minnesota.

Stinkie

Oh, I tried. But I had no idea whatsoever. Thanks for sharing the answer.

I posted a photo of Richard Neutra's 1946 Kaufmann House. It was commissioned by Edgar J. Kaufmann Sr., who previously - here's the Wright link - had Fallingwater built.

Jackson

OK, Stinkie, I'll go for it- the Kauffman (spelling?) House by Richard Neutra.

As I'm not 100% about this one I can feel the shadows of my old university tutors looming over my shoulder!

EDIT: NO WAY! You ruined my moment of glory with a simul-post! LOL

Stinkie

lol. You still get the glory, Jackson.

Jackson

Yay! You learn something new every day- I had never put 2 and 2 together before and realised that both "Kaufman Houses" were for the same "Kaufman". Lucky, lucky b@stard. I'm glad his roofs leaked!