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Feng Shui and Frank Lloyd Wright:
Hemicycle Designs

Photograph of the Guggenheim Museum in New York, a hemicycle design by Frank Lloyd Wright
Guggenheim Museum
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According to Cate Bramble...

Consider the hemicycle designs that Wright innovated. A hemicycle is not inherently good Feng Shui. Can anyone imagine a follower of the Black Sect Buddhist Church or Pyramid School trying to place their cookie-cutter baguas over a hemicycle? Sure, traditional Feng Shui practitioners have been educated on strategies for dealing with these designs, but hemicycles don't exactly lend themselves to those uniquely American "McBagua" schools. I would suggest that many people who think Frank Lloyd Wright was some kind of Feng Shui savant have seen the Guggenheim or a picture of Fallingwater, but generally don't look much further.

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