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Amanda - Organic Architecture/F.L. Wright
12016-02-15T11:47:41-08:00Brendan O'Connellebfc3d10f3e31650b3aa34b91ad42e84b7c1f7ba818023plain2352022016-03-28T17:00:12-07:00amanda barriscale5001ecd2ba98bf98931b2fc217caa37ba69fea9fFrank Lloyd Wright was a key figure in the modernist movement and was one of the first architects to coin the term organic architecture. F.L. Wright thought it was important to integrate nature and architecture, "parts were related to the whole as the whole was related to the parts".1F.L. Wright believed everything from the materials to the design had to come together as a whole to create organic building suited for humans spiritual and physical needs. F.L. Wright viewed nature, function, ornament, depth and, space as inherent qualities of human spirituality. His beliefs helped devise six design principles of organic architecture.1
Simplicity and repose should be the measures of art.
Multiplicity of styles.
Correlating nature, topography and architecture.
Using colors from nature and adapting them to fit congruously with other natural materials used in building.
Expressing “the nature of materials”.
Spiritual integrity in architecture.
I have chosen Fallingwater, a house designed by F.L Wright, to elucidate and illustrate F.L. Wright's style of organic architecture.
This is an exterior side view of Fallingwater.4
This is an interior view of the main floor of Fallingwater.4 References
Wright, Frank Lloyd. Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings. Ed. Bruce Brooks. Pfeiffer. Vol. 5. New York: Rizzoli in Association with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, 1994. Print.
"Fallingwater Home." Fallingwater | Home. Web. 10 Mar. 2016.
Riley, Terence, and Peter Reed. "Frank Lloyd Wright and Modernism."Frank Loyd Wright, Architect: , the Museum of Modern Art, New York,. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1994. 32-53.
Kaufmann, Edgar, and Mark Girouard. Fallingwater. Ed. Walton Rawls. London: Architectural, 1986.
