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🗓️ 7 February 2017
⏱️ 25 minutes
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0:00.0 | This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars. |
0:04.0 | If I ask you to think of the most famous architect in American history, |
0:08.0 | even if you don't think you know anything at all about architecture, |
0:10.0 | I bet you could take a guess. |
0:12.0 | And I bet your guess would be right. |
0:14.0 | Frank Lloyd Wright perhaps the greatest architect of the 20th century. |
0:19.0 | The genius with a T square has been called the pace center of modern day architecture. |
0:23.6 | One of the most extraordinary men of our time. |
0:25.6 | He has literally established the pace for innovations and new ideas in the field of architecture. |
0:33.0 | Frank Lloyd Wright left a legacy of some of the most iconic and gorgeous buildings in the United States, |
0:40.0 | like the Spiraling Guggenheim Museum in New York, |
0:43.0 | the falling water house in Pennsylvania, |
0:45.0 | which straddles a waterfall, |
0:47.0 | and the futuristic Marin Civic Center, |
0:49.0 | which is the backdrop for Gattica, which is an awesome movie. |
0:52.0 | And that is producer Avery Truffelman. |
0:54.0 | By the end of his career, Wright was on a level of celebrity usually reserved for actors and rock |
0:59.7 | stars. |
1:00.7 | He was a household name and he was on late night talk shows. |
1:04.0 | Some quarters have denounced Wright as an impractical visionary and a pompous windbag. |
1:08.0 | Yeah. |
1:09.0 | How do you feel about such criticism, Mr Wright? |
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