Saturday, April 22, 2017

When architecture is mentioned, often times we tend to think only of large buildings which humans inhabit. I believe, however, that smaller scale pieces are just as much architecture as anything else, and can even be more interesting sometimes. The image above is an official Lego set of Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater. While the building had already been designed, of course, by forcing themselves to use a different medium and building materials, the designers for the Lego set were architects in their own right as they had to think of new ways to create the same overall design without compromising the original design. While the straight edge features of the original building made this an easier task, it still must find a compromise in many of the features. Almost all Lego architecture is constrained to flat-edged pieces, so designers must figure out ways to utilize that and still create the visual feel of various textures and shapes.

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