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发表于3分钟前回复 :Frank Lloyd Wright is America's greatest-ever architect. However, few people know about the Welsh roots that shaped his life and world-famous buildings. Now, leading Welsh architect Jonathan Adams sets off across America to explore Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpieces for himself. Along the way, he uncovers the tempestuous life story of the man behind them and the significance of his radical family background.In a career spanning seven decades, Frank Lloyd Wright built over 500 buildings, and changed the face of modern architecture: Fallingwater, the house over the waterfall, has been called the greatest house of the 20th century; the spiralling Guggenheim Museum in New York reinvented the art museum; the concrete Unity Temple was the first truly modern building in the world. But the underlying philosophy that links all Wright's buildings is as important as anything he built.Those ideas were rooted in the Unitarian religion of Frank Lloyd Wright's mother. Anna Lloyd Jones was born and raised near Llandysul in west Wales and migrated to America with her family in 1844, most likely to escape religious persecution. Her son, Frank, was raised in a Unitarian community in Wisconsin, a small piece of Wales in America. The values he absorbed there were based on the sanctity of nature, the importance of hard work, and the need to question convention and defy it where necessary. Wright's architecture was shaped by, and expressed, these beliefs.Frank Lloyd Wright set out to create a new American architecture for a new country. He built his own lifelong home in the valley he was raised in, and he named it after an ancient Welsh bard called Taliesin. It was the scene of many adventures - and a horrific crime. In 1914, a servant at Taliesin ran amok and killed seven people including Wright's partner, Mamah Cheney, and her two young children.Wright rebuilt his home and went on to marry a Montenegrin woman, Olgivanna Milanoff, some 30 years younger than him. It was Olgivanna who struck upon the idea that saved Wright's career after the Wall Street Crash and personal scandal laid it low. She decided that her husband should take on apprentices and that the apprentices should pay for the privilege. The Taliesin Fellowship had a hands-on approach, with apprentices often building extensions to Wright's own houses, labouring and cooking for him. Somehow it worked, lasting for decades and nurturing hundreds of young talents.Frank Lloyd Wright died in 1959 aged 91 while working on his final masterpiece, New York's incomparable Guggenheim Museum. He had been born in the wake of the American civil war, the son of a pioneer, and died a television celebrity, in the space age. He is buried in the shadow of Taliesin, alongside his Welsh ancestors.A 150 years after his birth, Jonathan Adams argues that Frank Lloyd Wright is now a vitally important figure who can teach us how to build for a better world. Wright believed in what he called organic architecture; buildings that grace the landscape, express an idea of how to live and respond to individual needs. This bespoke approach - a philosophy, not a style - puts him at the heart of modern architectural thinking.
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发表于6分钟前回复 :非劇情片亦非紀錄片,《多古拉之歌》是部音樂電影,充滿印象與人文精神。導演Partice Leconte有一天發現了一群小孩,唱著絕美的交響樂曲,他從來沒有經歷過這種感動。不久之後,他到了柬埔寨,他從來就沒有對一個國家這麼傾心。從這些強烈的情感中,誕生的是一段冒險,一段旅程。既驚奇又感人,既輕鬆又嚴肅,就像人生一樣。法國導演勒貢偶然間聽到作曲家Etienne Perruchon的交響合唱樂章Dogora,深感震撼,始終盼望能將其影像化。直到某日他造訪柬埔寨,被當地的人物與景色所感動,「從來沒有一個國家讓我如此情緒澎湃」:勒貢如是說。一部影像與音樂完美結合的偉大作品於焉誕生。透過純真孩子的臉龐、夕陽的梯田、綿延的水岸與船屋、垃圾山的日出,《Dogora》捕捉到生命深層最動人心弦的畫面。絕美的高畫質HD影像,每一個鏡頭都捕捉到完美的剎那。這是一首交響詩,一部擁抱生命的電影。