LEGO launches Frank Lloyd Wright Architecture sets

May 22, 2009 by Dan Taylor    14 Comments    Posted under: Photography

In conjunction with the Frank Lloyd Wright foundation, LEGO has just released two of a planned six sets of an ‘Architecture‘ series, celebrating the work of the architecture great.

OMG RLY????  Nice!

The release of the LEGO structures coincides with the real Guggenheim Museum’s “From Within Outward” exhibition, which is a celebration of 50 years of Wright’s continued influence after his passing.

The first of the sets was released on the 15th to coincide with the opening of the exhibition, and are part of LEGO’s LEGO Architecture line of sets, made to “inspire future architects, engineers and designers as well as architecture fans around the world with the LEGO brick as a medium.

[via designbloom]

Holy crap!  Please file this under DO WANT!  I haven’t pulled out the LEGO collection in years, but something like this just might do the trick.  Throw some Charles Renie Mackintosh furniture sets in there, and I’m more than sold.

Speaking of tricks, this reminds me of a clever one I managed to pull while in college.

I managed to get myself a private tour of the Edward E. Boynton house in Rochester, NY, by way of convincing a real-estate agent that I was a photography major at RIT.  While I was in school (mid to late 90′s) the house was for sale.  Being a huge lover of all things FLW, I hatched a plan to not only get in, but to spend some time with the spirit of Frank.

I casually called the real-estate agency representing the property, told the folks that I was a student at RIT and was traveling to the Pennsylvania that summer to shoot Falling Water, had already shot the Darwin D. Martin house in Buffalo, and wanted to shoot the Boynton house.  I remember them apologizing that the house was empty, but if I’d be fine with shooting a bare structure, they’d arrange for it to happen.  We set a time and date and I snagged an ID from a friend at RIT that looked absolutley nothing like me.  Luckily, they never asked for credentials, and I spent almost 3 hours shooting the entire house.  Needless to say, these are in the days before digital (well, at least on a college student’s budget), but I still have the prints and negatives…maybe it’s time to get them scanned?