Frank Lloyd Wright Fellowship 70th Year Reunion
That afternoon we drove on to Milwaukee and saw the outside of Frank Lloyd Wright's great Greek Orthodox Church. Unfortunately, the owners put in some weird looking glass in the windows, and they changed Mr. Wright's original front doors. But it is still a great building. However, it was closed and we could not get inside.
In Milwaukee, we went to see Santiago Calatrava's new Milwaukee Art Museum. Worth the trip! Now my critique, because the building is worth criticizing, and in many ways is an outstanding building: Fascinating inside and out, but would have been better without the suspension bridge structure since it competes with the high entry hall. The bridge is a pedestrian bridge and could have been supported aesthetically without using the pole and the wires (perhaps Calatrava is still more engineer than architect); the inside is stupendous, especially the high entry hall; the galleries are passable; and the exterior is unforgettable! Milwaukee should be commended for spending the money to have an outstanding building built there, one that may draw almost as many people to see the building as Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum in New York does. I have to wonder what Frank Lloyd Wright would have done with a budget of 100 million dollars though.

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