A Frank Lloyd Wright breezeway in Michigan collapsed after six weeks, showing that famous architects aren't immune to design failure. The speaker argues architects need to test designs for real-world conditions and climate before clients assume every concept will actually work.
You know, my father-in-law actually, when he was a teenager, built a Frank Lloyd Wright house that his dad, it was my wife's grandfather, told the representative from Frank Lloyd Wright, this breezeway that you have designed to go from the house to the garage will not survive a Michigan winter. And they told him, well, you build it the way that Frank Lloyd Wright has designed. And it lasted about 6 weeks and caved in. You know, you wanna make sure that something is designed that it can actually be built and that you've already kind of vetted and tested that out, because that's an unknown for customers. I mean, they, they think an architect, 100%, whatever they design actually can come to fruition, and that's not necessarily always the case.
