The Right Trip in the United States of America

The Right Trip

in U.S.A.!!! ...3!

Discovering the Only One Word of

Frank Lloyd Wright Architect

(1867-1959)

George Sturges House

Brentwood Heights, L.A., 1939

Frank Lloyd Wright Architect

449, Skyway Road, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

Beth Sholom Synagogue

Elkins Park, 1959

Frank Lloyd Wright Architect

8231, Old York Road, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

First Unitarian Church

Madison, 1949

Frank Lloyd Wright Architect

900, University Bay Drive, Madison, Winsconsin, U.S.A.

The Friedman House

Pleasantville, 1948

Frank Lloyd Wright Architect

Orchard Brook Drive, Pleasantville, Thornwood, New York, USA

The David and Gladys

Wright House

Phoenix, 1950

Frank Lloyd Wright Architect

5212, East Exeter Boulevard, Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.A.

The Ennis House

Los Angeles, 1924

Frank Lloyd Wright Architect

2607 Glendower Avenue, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

Taliesin (East)

Spring Green, 1911

Frank Lloyd Wright Architect

Spring Green, Wisconsin, U.S.A.

Keiran Murphy

Taliesin (East)

Frank Lloyd Wright's Winter Residence and Workshop:

Practical Construction School during the 20th century, decentralized, with Apprentice and Professional Staff.

Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation

Taliesin West

Frank Lloyd Wright's Summer Residence and Workshop:

Practical Construction School during the 20th century, decentralized, with Apprentice and Professional Staff.

WE ARE NOT TOO MANY :

WE ARE GIANTS !

Always keep in mind that what in the thought and action of Frank Lloyd Wright Architect may seem at first glance to be simple or pure individualism, is not so. In Wright individual and society are one. There is communion, there is unity. A person is not only "a world apart," unique and unrepeatable, but at the same instant he is also part of and constituent of larger and larger worlds: family, society, democracy, nature, the universe. In the final, Wright's vision is cosmic. Going back to the days when the best-known master of modern architecture lived, Wright does not work only for himself, for his survival and that of his large family, or for that of his ideas and organic architecture. He works in Taliesin and Taliesin West with a whole community: with his collaborators, with professionals, with his "sorcerer's apprentices," his students, his young people from all over the States and all over the world. Wright's vision is Unitarian, yet dynamic, open-patterned, inclusive, limitless, expanding, toward that which is infinite, toward that which is eternal. In this sense Wright's architecture is living and will always be living.

When, still a child, I first saw in an encyclopedia pictures of Wright's works I thought, here, I would like to do things the way Wright did, always changing style. Still I did not know what I wanted to do when I grew up, nor did I know what was behind it, because for Frank Lloyd Wright, as he stated, this was true that for every person, a home and a style. This man, this Wright had an extra gear, a great coherence, that went beyond the many little everyday contradictions. It was evident.

To think that the billions of people populating the Earth are reducible to a problem wrongly and perhaps even in bad faith called "overpopulation" is to have a lazy mind that is too small to contain the complexity all around us. There are not too many of us at all. With a minimum of cooperation, single societies, single social groups, families, people who populate this world, can do great things. Humans are not as cooperative as insects, like bees, ants and termites. But no one has ever asked so much of us. Not yesterday, in the past, much less tomorrow or today. Why is that?

Today's humanity would only need a minimum of cooperation, while otherwise each of us can very well mind our own business and in our own way. So in this sense we can do great things, things like giants. We are not dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, that is, all the generations and generations of men and women who have gone before us. We are all just giants. We are not too many. If we are billions rather than millions there will be a reason, and it is not at all that we "copulate too much". While for too greedy hands and dried-up minds not even one planet for each would be sufficient. It will turn out well, maybe not for me, but for the new generations it will turn out well. There is no room for nonsense.

We need neither heroes, nor saints, nor geniuses, nor sacrifices, nor resilience and other such futile efforts. Yes, saints, heroes, geniuses and efforts are also needed, sometimes, but not now that we are so numerous, billions. A little cooperative effort is needed now, but from everyone. Once again: there is no room for nonsense. Not now, not ever. If we want trade to thrive, first we must make people thrive, and hence families, the basic unit of all societies, currently miserably one-way "mercantile", in this world.

Otherwise your stained glass beads that you once bartered slaves with in Black Africa, your goods and services, will end up that no one can buy them from you anymore. It would be time to get rid of slavery once and for all. You tell people that if you don't sell colored beads in large quantities, which you call "economic growth”, then it ends up that you can't buy enough gas and oil and raw materials for your "needs”.

But have you ever wondered how many things you, and all of us, could do without? Have you ever realized how much garbage you produce? Take a closer look at what you bought, you too: they sold you garbage. By dint of selling stained glass beads you got screwed there, you too, by the immense bead scam. …And what about me, and to whom do I sell my stained glass beads if not to a society that is no more, annihilated and atomized into an infinity of mere individuals? Just individuals, nothing more, goods. No society.

M.L.

T H E M A R I N D U C T

THE MARINE WATER AQUEDUCT

D E E P B L U E

SEAWATER FOR OVER 200,000 POOLS OF

L O S A N G E L E S

D U N E S

THE MARINDUCT OASIS SYSTEM

T H E P E N S I L E P O O L S

BY BRIDGE-POOLS

WATERFUN & SPORTING BATHS

THE ROLLER COASTER OF STAIRS

A LABYRINTH OF STAIRS

FOR SEAWATER FUN PARKS

F O R H U M A N B E I N G S

N O T F O R C L O N E S

S T A I R S I N T H E W A T E R

A SEAWATER SPORTING & FUN PARK

T H E N A U T I L U S

A VILLAGE IN THE DESERT

T H E B L U E S H E L L

A HOME WITH A THERMAL

SHIELD OF SAND

T H E Z E B R A S

CHAIRS & TABLES BY POLYCARBONATE

& ALUMINIUM TUBES

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Even the longest journey begins with a first step! Systemic Habitats is on line since the 18th of May 2012. This website was created to publish online my ebook "Towards a different habitat" on the contemporary architecture and urbanism. Later many other contents were added. For their direct or indirect contribution to its realisation strarting from 2012, we would like to thank: Roberto Vacca, Marco Pizzuti, Fiorenzo and Raffaella Zampieri, Antonella Todeschini, All the Amici di Marco Todeschini, Ecaterina Bagrin, Stefania Ciocchetti, Marcello Leonardi, Joseph Davidovits, Frédéric Davidovits, Rossella Sinisi, Pasquale Cascella, Carlo Cesana, Filippo Schiavetti Arcangeli, Laura Pane, Antonio Montemiglio, Patrizia Piras, Bruno Nicola Rapisarda, Ruberto Ruberti, Marco Cicconcelli, Ezio Prato, Sveva Labriola, Rosario Francalanza, Giacinto Sabellotti, All the Amici di Gigi, Ruth and Ricky Meghiddo, Natalie Edwards, Rafael Schmitd, Nicola Romano, Sergio Bianchi, Cesare Rocchi, Henri Bertand, Philippe Salgarolo, Paolo Piva detto il Pivapao, Norbert Trenkle, Antonietta Toscano, Gaetano Giuseppe Magro, Carlo Blangiforti, Mario Ludovico, Riccardo Viola, Giulio Peruzzi, Ahmed Elgazzar, Warren Teitz, and last but not least Lena Kudryavtseva. M.L.