The Modernist House on the Prairie
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Architect Herb Greene (right) and his artistic director, Lila Cohen, gaze out the semi-circle window of a former bedroom in the Prairie House. A piece of Oklahoma’s architectural legacy will be protected thanks to a collaboration between the OU College of Architecture and preservationist Brent Swift. Scott Williams
Just because something has been here since 1961, doesn't mean it still should be. That looks like something you would see along a long stretch of highway in the middle of nowhere.
I'm curious if this design and it's significance was discussed during any of your classes, Design.
OK that explains your comment, no offense.
Did you read the article I linked? It may provide some insight into the significance aspect.
No one is saying this is a beautiful structure by conventional standards. But it has historical significance on several levels.
There is a possibility it was discussed in my Architectural Theory class and I just don’t remember. Although I am pretty sure I would, I was always pretty, vocal about what I thought was bad design or just a crap building. I loved theory class because we got to be honest without judgement. I did a presentation on cyborg architecture. Basically, architecture with no soul. I was particularly brutal to today’s residential housing. I had a great source that I would have to look up his name. He was equally brutal to residential cookie cutter neighborhoods.
As far as this is concerned? This is just a hut. It is not interesting to me. If I had never seen this article and just happened upon this structure, I would never think anyone extensively studied it.
Side note: One of our first assignments was to take a picture was a building that we considered to be “architecture” and a building we considered to be “just a building”. These had to be local so Georgia or Atlanta. My building that I considered architecture was The High Museum of Art. My “just a building” was the Atlanta Marriott Marquis. I took some heat for that one. I think John Portman is a hack architect and hate all of his buildings. I was also pretty vocal in my hatred of one of the more famous architects Frank Lloyd Wright (I have always called him Frank Lloyd Wrong.)
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