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I just want to see which architect, that of the modernist school, Louis Sullivan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Sullivan) , or that of the postmodernist, his pupil, Frank Lloyd Wright (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lloyd_Wright) , is more popular.

I believe the results of this poll might say something important about the information fed to and understood by us, the young intellectuals of the educated world (young... for the most part... there are exceptions like Fraggle Rock of Ages).


It's interesting to know that Wright always referred to Sullivan as "lieber meister," though I can't say I know what that means. Can you?



Please note that if you took time to answer this poll, you've wasted my time and yours and you're a horribe failure of a human being. :rolleyes:
The point was to get your immediate reaction to the names, of course.

It's obvious what comes to mind first.

Please note that if you took time to answer this poll, you've wasted my time and yours and you're a horribe failure of a human being. And you're wasting our time asking at all. There's the cliff ... after you. Really. I promise. I'll watch you hit the ground first, to make sure it's sufficient to do the job, and then the rest of us will pile over after you.

Im afraid you're fighting an uphill battle, this isn't really a new problem.

Columbus, Edison, Ford, Picasso, the list is endless. 70% of the names we associate with important discoveries or contributions to art, science, philosophy etc. are "johnny come lately's" (I can't believe I used that phrase but you get my point).

It's not even just an education problem, sometimes the student is a lot better than the teacher or the original idea wallows and goes nowhere until a good salesman comes along. The idea of who's first and who deserves the credit aren't always the same thing, it gets pretty murky with most things.

Shakespeare, too. The Tempest was his only original play.

And you're wasting our time asking at all. There's the cliff ... after you.

I was being sarcastic... the :rolleyes: says it all.

Are you being sarcastic?

I see no familiar names :(

"Columbus, Edison, Ford, Picasso, the list is endless. 70% of the names we associate with important discoveries or contributions to art, science, philosophy etc. are "johnny come lately's" (I can't believe I used that phrase but you get my point). "


um, isnt this about architects?

Wright all the way.

I see no familiar names :(

I'm sorry. I forgot that option.

isnt this about architects?

Not really.
'Twas more to see whether or not the modernist teacher or the highly creative student has gained more popularity taste-wise and education-wise.

It is as I expected, though I didn't believe it'd be this lopsided.


Some might argue that Wright was not a postmodernist, and they're right... if one considers his time period.
However, in my opinion, the Guggenheim Museum is definitely an early example of postmodernist architecture, and it was his magnum opus, after all.

I think today's society places great emphasis on the postmodernist innovators, while it seems to detest modernism as... something to be escaped. As though grid-like simplicity were something evil... :confused:

Do the early skyscrapers remind anyone here of servitude or robotic existence?

It's interesting to know that Wright always referred to Sullivan as "lieber meister," though I can't say I know what that means. Can you?
I don't have much German, but that is very easy to guess. It means "loving master".

"Liebe" in german means "love", and "meister" looks like "master"

Just my 2 cents.... ;)