I've gone through many art history, history of architecture, and classes of the like and flipped through books and slide shows of everything from cave drawings to Phillip Johnson's Glass House. It's incredible to see the radical things that designers have done over the years. Any designer that ends up in our books and our slide shows, made a mark on history by looking at something differently and acting on it. Every designer worth mentioning was probably called crazy at some point, and told that "it will never work!" They probably weren't the most economical, or the most practical- but they made history. They created something that inspired, that challenged, that was so passionate that practicality couldn't hold it.
A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
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