Frank Lloyd Wright added to Lego Architecture range.

[shaneis]

It's coming to a toy shop near you! Guggenheim's out, Falling Water is next.

 

http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/05/frank-lloyd-wright-lego/

 

[Hugh_Compton]

Dagnabbit, I can't work out if this is a joke or not!

 

Guess it must be as how can you water proof lego? you'd have leaks everywhere!

 

Shame, would love to mess around with water features in lego

[Ernest Burden III]

Dagnabbit, I can't work out if this is a joke or not!

 

Not a joke. I was in a LEGO store (their own branded LEGO-only store) and saw some of the architecture sets. I had seen them on a design blog, but didn't know they were official sets. They are. No FLW on display, though, in the store.

[John Dollus]

They have this in the Orlando Lego store. Nice and just like the real thing, it leaks!

[ihabkal]

well it's about time. Much better than those over priced Star Wars lego.

[Crazy Homeless Guy]

Frank's son is probably pissed. Lego's kind of made Lincoln Logs look like kids toys back in the day. They I had my fair share of both.

[Ernest Burden III]

Frank's son is probably pissed.

 

I saw Eric L Wright recently--he looked a little too frail to be worrying about LEGOs, I would think. Still, he made it to NY for a party at the Guggenheim. He has ski poles to be able to walk upright.

 

Wright Jr. had designed a great church south of LA. My father (at the party with me) pointed out that he chose to get married there, to one of my many step-mothers. Typical architect--drive from SF to LA just for a building. I was married in a rose garden, but the backup space in case of rain was a McKim, Mead and White building, so I'm no different.

[Ernest Burden III]

I recall that in the FLW bio is a bit about his mother getting him some interesting building toy (way-pre LEGO) from Europe and that being credited with an early demonstration of Wright's interest and talent for design.

 

And without LEGOs I would have traveled down the other road and been a car mechanic/designer/crashtest dummy...something automotive. But instead I built stuff, had a huge bag of LEGOs, played with them day and night.

 

LEGO = 3D learning

[Ricardo Eloy]

I recall that in the FLW bio is a bit about his mother getting him some interesting building toy (way-pre LEGO) from Europe and that being credited with an early demonstration of Wright's interest and talent for design.

Indeed. I got to visit FLW's house near Chicago last year and they had those on display. I actually remember the guide saying Wright also made some Lego-like toys for his kids... or something like that (I was way too interested on the building to pay real attention to everything the guide said). Anyway, I think HE would have liked this. It's a way to getting kids interested in architecture.

[Ernest Burden III]

Indeed. I got to visit FLW's house near Chicago last year and they had those on display...(I was way too interested on the building to pay real attention to everything the guide said).

 

Same here. That's an amazing structure, especially the studio. Then you walk out around Oak Park and find many other Wright houses...not to mention the Unity Temple.

[Brian Cassil]

My 8 year old son is obsessed with LEGOs. He has the magazine subscription (which he contributes pics of his creations to) He has a massive armada of war ships, a city with a couple buildings as tall as he is, etc.

 

I'm not sure I even want to get him the architecture sets though for the same reason I'm not crazy about the star wars sets (and I love star wars). He would always much rather build from his own imagination and the pieces inevetable get mixed up with his massive collection of other pieces anyway.