Essays on Frank Lloyd

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Home and Studio remain the finest specimen of the architect’s innovative approach to the design of buildings in general and spaces for living in particular. The house is located in Oak Park, Illinois in a historic neighborhood which was later adorned by a number of other Wright’s houses representative of his unique style. While construction began in 1889 as soon as the architect married Catherine Tobin, the building was reconstructed and expanded for the next twenty years to arrive at the form one can see nowadays, restored by the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust. ...

Wright’s Organic Architecture

Architecture is an embodiment of a couple of activities. It may involve planning, designing and ultimately constructing the desired structure out of the specified materials. In many cases, the process of design and construction has to take into consideration the aspect of aesthetic values. Historically, most buildings of unique designs represent the culture of the surrounding people or a landmark that is easily recognized. Immediately after World War one, there began the practice of modern architecture. It encompasses moral and aesthetic blueprints. The designers had a primary vision of signifying a new way of development after the war. They ...

The emergence of the Modernist period enabled the world to shift from the rigid and hierarchical architecture to the bolder and naturalistic styles. However this time, architects also applied scientific knowledge in building their crafts to mark the beginning of the modern era. Frank Lloyd Wright ingenuity in building innovative and functional architecture spearheaded the quest for exploring various building designs in the early 20th century. Among his notable works are as follows: The Usonian House was one of the finest examples of incorporating geometrical patterns to homes as well as the delicate imitation of post-and-lintel style framework that ...

Constructed from 1935 until 1937, Frank Lloyd Wright’s House on a Waterfall-Fallingwater in Mill Run, Pennsylvania, Edgar J. Kaufmann House is at once highly-functional, and aesthetically-pleasing. Its cantilevered stone slabs lend the house a naturalistic “feel”, as it appears to be a part of the slowly-descending waterfall. Upon initial viewing, it appears to defy gravity because of the cantilevered slabs. Not only does the design echo simple, horizontal Japanese lines and forms, but it supplements the rocky terrain, adding an earthy, harmonizing element to the overall aesthetic (moma, 2004, internet). Functionally, it is somewhat unsettling that the cantilevered ...

Bilbao is one of the most storied cities in Spain, dating back more than 700 years. Presently, it has about 500,000 people within its boundaries, but Greater Bilbao, an area over 400 square kilometers in area, has over 1 million people.1 Although it had long been a leading port, it also gained prominence in the shipbuilding, chemicals and steel industries; however, when those industries began to decline after the death of Franco in 1975, the city sank into a recession. One of the causes for this recession had been Franco’s insistence that these industries only serve Spanish clients instead ...