Florida Southern College: An Architectural Masterpiece

[thelakelander]

Ranked in the past by Princeton Review as the most beautiful college campus in the country, Florida Southern College (FSC) is home to the world's largest single-site collection of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture.



Full article: https://www.thejaxsonmag.com/article/florida-southern-college-an-architectural-masterpiece/

[Charles Hunter]

Great pictures.  I really enjoyed visiting the campus last year with a tour.

[KenFSU]

I appreciate the significance of Frank Lloyd Wright's contributions to architecture, and find the prairie style buildings in Jacksonville inspired by Wright to be some of the city's finest buildings. That said, call me unrefined (which I clearly am), but this campus hurts my eyes to look at. I see the significance, just not the beauty.

Give me the gothic revival style of the nation's real most beautiful campus, THE Florida State University, any day of the week.

[thelakelander]

^Good architecture is the kind that people either passionately love or hate. The crap is the rest that we cheaply mass produce and drive by every day.

[KenFSU]

^I'm going to bookmark this in case the Jaxson headline in 2065 reads:

"Jacksonville, Florida is home to the largest historic collection to Sleiman-style strip malls in the Southeast. Celebrated for their nondescript features and wide, contemplative concrete expanses separating them from the streets. If the wind is blowing the right way, you can still faintly detect the scent of Pizza Hut breadsticks or a Subway cold cut trio."

[vicupstate]

I appreciate the significance of Frank Lloyd Wright's contributions to architecture, and find the prairie style buildings in Jacksonville inspired by Wright to be some of the city's finest buildings. That said, call me unrefined (which I clearly am), but this campus hurts my eyes to look at. I see the significance, just not the beauty.

I can relate to what you are saying. The interior shots are by and large appealing, but some of those exteriors are the opposite.  There is a lot of FLW buildings that I love, but none of these buildings would be on my list of my favorites of his work.