Philosophies of f l wright

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Frank Lloyd Wright
(1867- 1959)
Considered best architect of
last 125 years.
Known for ‘Prairie Style’
architecture.

Frank Lloyd Wright
• American Architect
• Worked under Louis Sullivan
• Influenced by the British Arts and Crafts Movement
• Influenced European modern architects
• created the philosophy of ORGANIC ARCHITECTURE,
which maintains that the building must develop out of
its surroundings.
• known for the Prairie Houses, characterized by
asymmetrical plans and low, wide overhanging eaves.

Frank Lloyd Wright
“Do not try to teach design.
Teach Principles.”
- Frank Lloyd Wright.

CHARACTER OF WORKS:
• strong eastern influences
• use of natural materials like bricks, stone and wood
• use of textured concrete
• designs that blend well in its environment
• focused more on residential designs

Organic Architecture is a term Frank Lloyd Wright
used to describe his approach to architectural design.
The philosophy grew from the ideas of
Frank Lloyd Wright's mentor, Louis Sullivan,
who believed that "form follows function."
Wright argued that "form and function are one."
Organic Architecture

 Organic architecture strives to integrate
space into a unified whole.
 Frank Lloyd Wright was not concerned with
architectural style,
 because he believed that every building
should grow naturally from its environment.

Winslow House
Oak Park, IL 1893 AD

Winslow House: Plan
Oak Park, IL1893 AD

Ward Willet House
Highland Park, IL , 1893 AD

Ward Willet: Plan
Highland Park, IL 1893 AD

Robie House
Chicago, IL 1906-09 AD
FLW spatial geometry reflects his structure invention ; lighting reinforce
space , furnishing reiterated his linear schemes , construction materials
and his every ornamental detail is integrated with larger concerns

Robie House

Frank Lloyd Wright, ROBIE HOUSE,
Illinois, 1909

Robie House: Interior

Frank Lloyd Wright, Robie House, 1906.

The term "Prairie School" was not actually
used by these architects to describe
themselves ; the term was coined by H. Allen
Brooks, one of the first architectural
historians to write extensively about these
architects and their work.
The Prairie school shared an embrace of
handcrafting and craftsman guilds as a
reaction against the new assembly line, mass
production manufacturing techniques, which
they felt created inferior products and
dehumanized workers.
Prairie School

•Broad, gently sloping roofs with low
chimneys, balconies and terraces
extending in several directions
•Emphasis on natural materials-woods
stone
•Leaded windows patterned with
colored glass
•Bands of casement windows
•Wood strips to emphasize structural
elements
Prairie School
 horizontal lines
 windows grouped in horizontal bands, integration
with the landscape
 solid construction & indigenous materials
 Horizontal lines were thought to evoke and relate
to the native prairie landscape.

Unity Temple: Exterior

Unity Temple: Detail

Unity Temple: Detail
Symmetry organises form and space

Unity Temple: Interior

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Buffalo, NY
1904 AD (demolished)

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Larkin: Interior
Buffalo, NY 1904 AD (demolished)

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Taliesin East: Exterior
Spring Green, WI 1911 AD

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#13: Imperial Hotel
Tokyo, Japan
1915-22 AD (demolished)

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#14: Hollyhock House
Los Angeles, CA
1917-20 AD

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Taliesin West: Exterior
Scottsdale, AZ 1938 AD

Frank Lloyd Wright
Kauffman House – FALLING WATER
1939, Bear Run, Pennsylvania

Falling Water
Bear Run, PA 1935-37 AD

Falling Water
Bear Run, PA 1935-37 AD
Window frame view

Falling Water: Interior
Bear Run, PA
1935-37 AD

Johnson Wax: Exterior
Racine, WI
1936-39 AD

Johnson Wax: Interior
Racine, WI 1936-39 AD

Frank Lloyd Wright,
GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM,
New York, 1956-59

Guggenheim Museum: Exterior
NYC 1948 AD

Guggenheim Museum: Interior
NYC 1948 AD

Guggenheim Museum: Skylight
NYC
1948 AD

Frank Lloyd Wright, Darwin D. Martin House, 1904.

Frank Lloyd Wright, Guggenheim Museum, 1937.

Frank Lloyd Wright
Taliesan West

Organic architecture is an architecture from
within outward, in which entity is an ideal…
organic means intrinsic – in the philosophic
sense, entity – wherever the whole is to the
part as the part is to whole and where the
nature of materials the nature of purpose, the
nature of entire performance , becomes clear
as a necessity.
F.L.Wright 1953

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