The Architect's Purpose

Ep.4 Architecture's Odd Couple: Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson


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Don't Forget To Like and Subscribe!  Hey Y'all, Welcome to the 4th episode of The Architect's Purpose Podcast!  

This episode is all about the two main movers of the modernist movement: Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson. These two twentieth century icons shapes architecture into what we have today. They are wildly different creatures, but also wildly similar in many ways. Join the conversation as we dive deep!   Topics Discussed: What are the similarities between Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson? Who's Roark and Who's Keating? The idea that the role of an architectural critic didn't exist until Philip Johnson Could the Barcelona Pavilion have been built without the Robbie House? Should furniture be prescriptive in the plan or flexible to be rearranged? Johnsons contribution to architecture was his mentorship All intellectual movements are a reaction. and many more...!    


Hosts: Montgomery Borg Architectural Designer Los Angeles, California montgomeryborg.com/podcast https://www.instagram.com/montgomeryborg https://anchor.fm/meditationinquarantine 

Michel Borg AIA RID LEED AP Licensed Architect Design Director Page/ Dallas, Texas https://www.linkedin.com/in/michel-bo...   

This podcast is based off of the class "The Role of an Architect in Contemporary Society" taught at the University of Texas at Arlington by Michel Borg. The class is structured by reading books and having a discussion of them. If you would like to read along, here's a list of the books below.  

Ep1. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand  Ep2. Brunelleschi's Dome by Ross King  Ep3. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson  Ep4. Architecture's Odd Couple by Hugh Howard  Ep5. Walter Gropius: The Man who Built the Bauhaus by Fiona McCarthy  Ep6. The Fountainhead: Revisited  Ep7. The Architect’s Suicide: A Fictional Account by R. M. Beckley   Ep8. From Bauhaus to Our House  by Tom Wolfe  Ep9. My Beautiful City Austin by David Heymann  Ep10. Four Walls and a Roof by Reinier de Graaf  Ep11. Complexity + Contradiction in Architecture  by Robert Venturi  Ep12. Building Art:  The Life and Work of Frank Gehry  by Paul Goldberger  What should we do after? Drop your book recommendations or topics in the comments

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