May 21 2009Frank Lloyd Wright Architecture LEGO Sets
LEGO has just released the first two of six sets in an 'Architecture' series celebrating the iconic work of Frank Lloyd Wright. Also, I have been to Fallingwater. So yeah, put that in your Guggenheim and smoke it.
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."
Cool, I want them. But nowhere near as much as I want you. Look at me -- don't you think we're sharing something special? I do, and they're called $6 pitchers. Now drink till you love me!
Hit the jump to see a shot of the Guggenheim.
frank lloyd wright lego architecture collection just released [designboom]
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Frank Lloyd Wright honored with his own LEGO collection [dvice]
Thanks to Brandon and Maggie, who once had to build a bridge out of Popsicle sticks that could support an adult's weight. It didn't.
Reader Comments
1. /Eyeroll - May 21, 2009 3:39 PM
AMG I pooped a brick! (o legos)
2. Leximo - May 21, 2009 3:42 PM
Neat
3. gizmoduck - May 21, 2009 3:43 PM
kewl kewl
4. BK - May 21, 2009 3:46 PM
Awesome!!!
5. Daisy - May 21, 2009 5:08 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete Photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max agreed to help an architect design a building on the condition that nothing be changed. Later when there were changes made, he blew up the building.
6. Truk - May 21, 2009 5:14 PM
Very cool- even cooler that they are abstract recreations instead of brick by brick replicas.
7. InUrNdo - May 21, 2009 5:17 PM
You had me at pitcher Geekologie Writer. *slurp
8. Quik - May 21, 2009 5:19 PM
I like this. I think LEGO should do more of this kinda stuff, actually inspiring building and art instead of just recreating EVERYTHING into block form.
9. Ollie Williams - May 21, 2009 5:22 PM
I don't need beer to love you, GW.
10. Funeral Balloons - May 21, 2009 5:26 PM
What, they didn't have the balls to attempt Frank Gehry?
11. Tennist0 - May 21, 2009 6:02 PM
Pretty cool, assuming they are over $100 I think I'll skip but these are pretty nice
12. Pew³ - May 21, 2009 6:44 PM
Can I build a 1:1 scale and live in it?
13. Clamdigger - May 21, 2009 7:42 PM
More Lego shit ! At this rate I will be a damm Lego expert by the end of the month.
14. aids - May 21, 2009 8:23 PM
I wish i got paid to build crap with my legos -.-
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15. cavallino - May 21, 2009 8:42 PM
@ #5
Anyone else notice Daisy just made a Fountainhead reference?
16. GLADIATOR - May 21, 2009 9:43 PM
LEGO UTTER FAIL...
LEGO, I LIKE LEGO. BUT NOTHING IS GOING TO CONVINCE ME THAT BUILDING THE GOOGLYEYEDGUGGENHEIM MUSEUM WILL BE BRING ME OODLES UPON OODLES OF GOOD BUILDING FUN! LIKE THIS IS THE SUCKEH
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17. bennie tudino - May 21, 2009 10:52 PM
@10 - just leave them out in the back of your car on a real hot day and they will turn into that.
18. beadingoff - May 22, 2009 12:15 AM
If I didn't hate stepping on stray Legos so much in my bare feet, I'd buy this. Ouch!
19. danger - May 22, 2009 4:27 AM
Thanks alot Frank Loyd Wrong!!
20. Jaded Icon - May 22, 2009 7:02 AM
Kids are lining up in stores to buy this.....only to be shoved aside by 45 yr old men trying to get to the half naked lego chick for the JAWS set.
21. LLLLLL - May 22, 2009 8:06 AM
yes very good... but can you take it all apart and build a spaceship with it?
if you can't im not interested.
22. Rhialto - May 22, 2009 10:05 AM
Looks great to me.Anyone can feel themself a big time architect from now on.
23. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - May 22, 2009 11:47 AM
This isn't Goliath's Guggenheim. It was his HOLY CRAP! this set of Legos is kick ass! drink stirrer.
24. caljenna - May 22, 2009 4:00 PM
@ 15 - I sure did, and I was about to chew her/him out, but then I thought about it and I am impressed...
25. peter - May 22, 2009 5:31 PM
I.M. Play-time!
26. William Sutton - May 25, 2009 1:47 PM
Mmm...can’t tell you whether I'm pumped or having flashbacks of childhood when father would inevitably step on the Lego while walking through the house at night (the scream would rouse the neighbors).
Makes for great opp to educate the family on America's greatest architecture.
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27. Jeremy - May 26, 2009 8:23 AM
I bet the LEGO version of Falling Water would stay together better than the real Falling Water... hehe :-)
28. laptop battery sell - January 4, 2010 2:48 AM
It's a good idea .Thank you.