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	title of this thread your message talk about seeking balance and harmony in their buildings, but not many are sufficiently driven, and talented, and philosophically informed, and technically skilled, in this direction to achieve it so pleasingly and so often as FLW did. FLW likely pursued balance and harmony in the composition of his buildings, at least on some deep level, not just in order to satisfy his aesthetic sense, but also to stabilize the psychological asymmetry formed in him in his only-child relationship with his parents, especially the side of the Oedipal triangle that was his hugely doting and pushy mother. Like many other architects, FLW also strove to make buildings look like what they were made of (his sense of authenticity, anyway), but he did so to a remarkable extent and at a level of thoroughness and richness of materials and constructed forms at every scale of composition that, again he stands apart from most. It is fair again, I suspect, to attribute some of the intensity and rigor (even ardor) of his pursuit of authenticity in his buildings again to the intensity of his need to achieve through work a kind of authenticity that he had to suppress in his childhood. Oedipal triangles always result in a lot of deferred and displaced behavior--the quest for authenticity being one of them. associated web images (optional) associated web link (optional) your email your password create a forums account \| you forgot your password?