Frank Lloyd Wright

I'm going to guess and say that you are going to be getting a lot of Wright posts, and for that, I am sorry.
I commute from home and also go to the Delaware Center. I'm working on finding balanced time for each my classes, and I am getting there. So I have yet to be able to go the library rather, I am doing my study online, just so ya know.
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Wright was an architect, interior designer, writer and educator. Wowza, doing all that I would be exhausted. But rather then all that he also designed more then 1,000 projects, with resulted in 500 complete works. He promoted organic architecture, lead a movement in architecture called the Prairie school and made the concept of the Usonian home.

The organic architecture can be found in his work Falling Water.

The home was built partly over a waterfall on Bear Run in the Mill Run section in the Laurel Highlands of the Allegheny Mountains.

The house is listed on the Smithsonian’s Life List of 28 places “to visit before you die”. It was designated as a historical landmark in 1966.

The work was started in 1936, and when looking at this house, it seems almost futuristic, and the idea of it being built in the 30’s rather then the now, is astonishing! Even more astonishing is the cost! The grand total of the home cost a total of $155, 000.

The Prairie movement as exampled by his works Robie House, the Darwin D. Martin house and the Westcott House. The Prairie School architectural design became wildly known and used in the late 19^th century and early 20^th century in the Midwest United States. The work is described by having flat horizontal lines, or hipped rooks with broad overhanging eaves, grouped horizontal windows, integrated with the landscape, solid construction, craftsmanship and discipline. The horizontal lines where thought to resemble a prairie style-like landscape.

This is a picture of the Robie House built between 1908 and 1910. The home is located in Chicago’s Hyde Park at 5757 S. Woodlawn Avenue on the South Side. The home was made into a National Landmark in 1963. The home is a perfect example of Prairie home architecture, As Wright wrote in 1910, "it is quite impossible to consider the building one thing and its furnishings another. ... They are all mere structural details of its character and completeness.” Every element Wright designed is meant to be thought of as part of the larger artistic idea of the house.

The home was called the “measuring stick” against all other Prairie School buildings are compared. The significance of the style can be stated in the 1957 article in House and Home magazine:

"During the decades of eclecticism's triumph there were also many innovators--less heralded than the fashionable practitioners, but exerting more lasting influence. Of these innovators, none could rival Frank Lloyd Wright. By any standard his Robie house was the House of the 1900s--indeed the House of the Century."]

Above all else, the Robie house is a magnificent work of art. But, in addition, the house introduced so many concepts in planning and construction that its full influence cannot be measured accurately for many years to come. Without this house, much of modern architecture as we know it today might not exist."

Usonian Homes designed by Wright were typically small, single story dwellings without a garage or much storage. A strong visual connection between the interior and exterior spaces is an important quality. When speaking about coining the term Usonia:

"But why this term "America" has become representative as the name of these United States at home and abroad is past recall. Samuel Butler fitted us with a good name. He called us Usonians, and our Nation of combined States, Usonia."

–Frank Lloyd Wright on Architecture: Selected Writings 1894–1940, p. 100.

 

Inside of the most famous Usonian home, Rosenbaum.

Side veiw

Wright’s work was ground breaking in his time. The clean lines and organized style led to visual appeal and cost cuts. Which in that time was a major plus. His work influenced many, and was the ground to many new designs. I enjoy the Prairie School look because we see a lot of that style in Columbus! I guess Midwest is the best! The idea that he dabbed his foot in many areas of design really influences me to not only focus on one area, and rather focus on several ideas.