Ooops! That second good view is from inside the building of the lake, not from "inside the lake." Guess I was remembering too vividly the bacchanalian revelries that used to take place in the Wright house, :-). Barkley Rosser On Fri, 13 Nov 1998 11:46:09 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time) "Rosser Jr, John Barkley" <rosserjb at jmu.edu> wrote:
> I agree that the John Nolen Drive under the Monona
> Terrace building is pretty ugly. But then it was there
> already.
> The best views are 1) from across the lake, a classic
> postcard shot already, 2) from inside of the lake, and 3)
> from on top where there are some of those nifty Wrightesque
> "lily pads," whoop-de-doo.
> One of his houses out on the edge of town was the site
> of a lot of notoriously wild and bacchanalian parties in
> the 1970s, :-).
> Barkley Rosser
> On Fri, 13 Nov 1998 09:11:05 -0500 Louis Proyect
> <lnp3 at panix.com> wrote:
>
> > A comment received from a friend:
> >
> > "I attended a wedding reception in
> > the new (perhaps the last) Wright building in Madison, w hich looks
> > picturesquely over Lake Menona, but is dominated structurally by a
> > huge concrete parking lot; drive by the downtown and you're under it,
> > looking up as in any other hideous building on the planet. .And that's
> > the main way the building is experienced every day, natch. There are
> > some wonderful Wright homes scattered around the city and in the
> > countryside around Madison, but they were intended for the well=off
> > (including profs) and remain so. Actually, the vernacular architecture
> > of 1920 or so is more interesting, more Wisconsin-like."
> >
> >
> > Louis Proyect
> >
> > (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)
> >
>
> --
> Rosser Jr, John Barkley
> rosserjb at jmu.edu
>
>
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