How old can an architect get...

[John Kavanaugh]

before he becomes a tribute to himself?  Help me out here. Examples? Has anyone past 60 in the history of art been more than just a check cashing machine? Music, theater, image creation, structures, or, God forbid GCA.

[Matthew Mollica]

Frank Lloyd Wright designed Fallingwater in his mid 60s and the Guggenheim more than a decade after that.

[John Kavanaugh]

For the sake of argument Picasso painted the following in 1941 at the age of 60. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dora_Maar_au_Chat


It is worth conservatively 100 million today. But that don't make it good. Just important.

[Matthew Mollica]

And Monet created his water lilies series in his early eighties.

[John Kavanaugh]

Frank Lloyd Wright designed Fallingwater in his mid 60s and the Guggenheim more than a decade after that.

Have you been to either? They are non functioning tributes to the past. Neither works well now as originally intended.

[Matthew Mollica]

Been to both, and loved them both. Fallingwater seems a victim of neglect as much as anything. I will happily contest that the Guggenheim doesn't work.

[Matthew Mollica]

Leonardo da Vinci lived to 67. He was painting, writing, performing anatomical dissections and thinking until his last days...

[Matthew Mollica]

Paul Newman, Henry Fonda and John Wayne all won Best Actor Oscars in their 60s.

[John Kavanaugh]

Been to both, and loved them both. Fallingwater seems a victim of neglect as much as anything. I will happily contest that the Guggenheim doesn't work.

Art in the hall...give me Kids in the hall. The Guggenheim is a lousy place to appreciate art. The slope promotes you to keep moving.

[Matthew Mollica]

The slope allows one to go back and forth easily, comparing works of the same artist across different times.
No stairs to negotiate, so the elderly and those in wheelchairs can use the facility more easily.
Visitors can peer across the open atrium and gain a sense of how much of the collection has been viewed, and how much remains.
Visionary. And that is without referencing the creation of a great external aesthetic, devoid of the need for external fire escapes, which would have ruined  the facade.

[John Kavanaugh]

Paul Newman, Henry Fonda and John Wayne all won Best Actor Oscars in their 60s.

Please...Lifetime achievement awards. Newman didn't win for Cool Hand Luke...You made my point.

[Matthew Mollica]

WiFi was invented by an Australian team led by Dr John O'Sullivan. The work was completed in his 60s.

[John Kavanaugh]

I think Logan's Run had it about right. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan%27s_Run_(film)

[Mike Sweeney]

Art in the hall...give me Kids in the hall. The Guggenheim is a lousy place to appreciate art. The slope promotes you to keep moving.

I saw a history of motorcycles there which spanned roughly 100 years. In that instance, the slope was a good thing, but I understand your point.

[Adam Lawrence]

Henri Matisse created an entirely new form of artistic expression (paper cuts) in the last four years of his life, from 81-85, when, because of physical incapacity, he could not pain any more. The works are astonishing, full of life and amazingly creative. He also designed the remarkably beautiful Chapelle de la Rosaire in Vence, although he was an atheist.

[Wayne_Kozun]

In music I think that Leonard Cohen still did some great stuff after he was 60.

But moving on to GCA I imagine that many/most of the courses that OTM "designed" were after he was sixty.


Bill Coore is 72 and Ben Crenshaw is now 65 so their recent work, including courses like Cabot Cliffs, Sand Valley and Streamsong were done post-60.

[John Cowden]

...and thus it seems the question has been answered. 

[Kalen Braley]

Even Hugh Hefner was an architect of sorts who seemed to only be warming up by the time he hit his 60s....

[Mike Sweeney]

before he becomes a tribute to himself?  Help me out here. Examples? Has anyone past 60 in the history of art been more than just a check cashing machine? Music, theater, image creation, structures, or, God forbid GCA.

I watched Carl Reiner's documentary last week. I would give it a Doak 6:


http://variety.com/2017/scene/news/carl-reiner-mel-brooks-dick-van-dyke-if-youre-not-in-the-obit-eat-breakfast-premiere-1202433968/


If the new HBO documentary “If You’re Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast” is any indication, the answer is a resounding yes. The title of the film, which premieres on the premium cable network on June 5, is based on an old joke of 95-year-old Carl Reiner. Reiner has been incredibly busy since he turned 90, writing several books and is active on social media. He even tweets an anti-Trump story before he goes to bed at night.
In the film, he tries to find out why so many people are defying their age and leading vital lives after the age of 90. He visits with Dick Van Dyke, 91, who became a star in Reiner’s Emmy Award-winning 1961-65 CBS sitcom “The Dick Van Dyke Show.”

[Mike_Trenham]

Thomas Jefferson was about 80 give or take during his creation of The Univerity of Virginia.

[Ira Fishman]

How old was MacKenzie when he designed ANGC?


Ira

[Matthew Mollica]

62

[Mike Sweeney]

Thomas Jefferson was about 80 give or take during his creation of The Univerity of Virginia.

76, I checked, but that is amazing. That was 90+ easily back in that era.

[James Brown]

Age is just a number.  Just like par. 

[Ryan Hillenbrand]

Clint Eastwood