Frank Loyd Wright. Organic Arch
Task four: Frank Lloyd Wright’s organic architecture
“So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture…not cherishing any preconceived form fixing upon us either past, present or future but instead exalting the simple lows of common sense…”
It is not surprising that Frank Lloyd Wright, a brilliant architect and designer of far-reaching vision and great powers of invention, anticipated many of the hallmarks of today’s Green movement. Wright introduced the word ‘organic’ into his philosophy of architecture as early as 1908 it was an extension of the teachings of his mentor Louis Sullivan whose slogan was “form follows function”. Wright had then changed the phrase to “form and function are one” using nature as the best example for this integration.
Wrights organic architecture takes on a new meaning, to him, architecture was not just about buildings, it was about nourishing the lines of those sheltered within. What were needed were environments to inspire and offer tranquillity to the inhabitants. During a lifetime that covered nearly a century, Wrights anchor and muse was Nature which he spelled with a capital “N”.
He wrote
“Using this word Nature…I do not of course mean that outward aspect which strikes the eye as a visual image of a scene strikes the ground glass of a camera, but the inner harmony which penetrates the outward form…and it’s determined character; that quality in the thing that is its significance and it’s Life for us,”
Wright himself grew up close to the land and in touch with its creative process and it gave him constant inspiration for his architecture. He created environments of carefully composed plans and elevations on a consistent geometric grammar while skilfully integrating buildings and the site through similarities of materials, form and method of construction.
Organic architecture is a reinterpretation of nature’s principles as they had been filtered through the intelligent mind of men and women. The sites-such as
“So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture…not cherishing any preconceived form fixing upon us either past, present or future but instead exalting the simple lows of common sense…”
It is not surprising that Frank Lloyd Wright, a brilliant architect and designer of far-reaching vision and great powers of invention, anticipated many of the hallmarks of today’s Green movement. Wright introduced the word ‘organic’ into his philosophy of architecture as early as 1908 it was an extension of the teachings of his mentor Louis Sullivan whose slogan was “form follows function”. Wright had then changed the phrase to “form and function are one” using nature as the best example for this integration.
Wrights organic architecture takes on a new meaning, to him, architecture was not just about buildings, it was about nourishing the lines of those sheltered within. What were needed were environments to inspire and offer tranquillity to the inhabitants. During a lifetime that covered nearly a century, Wrights anchor and muse was Nature which he spelled with a capital “N”.
He wrote
“Using this word Nature…I do not of course mean that outward aspect which strikes the eye as a visual image of a scene strikes the ground glass of a camera, but the inner harmony which penetrates the outward form…and it’s determined character; that quality in the thing that is its significance and it’s Life for us,”
Wright himself grew up close to the land and in touch with its creative process and it gave him constant inspiration for his architecture. He created environments of carefully composed plans and elevations on a consistent geometric grammar while skilfully integrating buildings and the site through similarities of materials, form and method of construction.
Organic architecture is a reinterpretation of nature’s principles as they had been filtered through the intelligent mind of men and women. The sites-such as
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