ARCHITECTURAL INFLUENCES
● FALLING WATER BY FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT ● ARCHITECTURAL INFLUENCES ● POTALA PALACE TIBET BY THE 5TH & 6TH DALAI LAMAS ● As a child born in Chigago, Illinpis I grew up in Frank Loyd Wright's world but I also was aware of the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet. ● Both had a great impact in my mind but also my father having Mongolian and Tibetan heritage in his Russupian-Lithuanian heritage the Potala was my greatest influence ● Perhaps my interedt in architecture came about as a result of my father taking us to an open prairie when I was 3 years old and he, my older brother and I built our house. My father was a master carpenter builder and my brother became a building contractor of custom houses leaving me to become an architect ● As a bot I started designing Prairie Houses as was the trend started by Frank Loyd Wright and in his Falling Water I saw the layered look of the Potala. ● So my desighn became long layered horizontal structures with outer slanted walls ● My decorative...
