How Did Frank Lloyd Wright Establish a New Canon of American

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“ The mother art is architecture.

Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own

civilization.”

-Frank Lloyd Wright

How did Frank Lloyd Wright

establish a new canon

of American architecture?

Frank Lloyd Wright

(1867-1959)
•Considered an architectural/artistic genius

and THE best architect of last

125 years •Designed over 800 buildings

•Known for ‘Prairie Style’ (really

a movement!) architecture that influenced an entire group of architects

•Believed in “architecture of

democracy” •Created an “organic form of

architecture”

Prairie School

The term "Prairie School" 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 craftsmanship as a reaction against the new assembly line, mass production

manufacturing techniques, which they felt created

inferior products and dehumanized workers. However, Wright believed that the use of the machine would help to create innovative architecture for all.

From your architectural samples, what may we

deduce about the elements of Wright’s work?

Prairie School

• Use of horizontal lines (thought to evoke native prairie landscape)
• Based on geometric forms . Flat or hipped roofs with broad overhanging eaves

. “Environmentally” set: elevations, overhangs

oriented for ventilation
. Windows grouped in horizontal bands called

ribbon fenestration that used shifting light

. Window to wall ratio affected exterior & interior
. Overhangs & bays reach out to embrace

. Integration with the landscape…Wright

designed inside going out

. Solid construction & indigenous materials

(brick, wood, terracotta, stucco…natural

materials)
. Open continuous plan & spaces; use of

dissolving walls, but connected spaces

Prairie School

•Designed & used “glass screens” that echoed natural forms
•Created Usonian homes for the “masses”

Frank Lloyd Wright, Darwin D. Martin House, 1904.
Frank Lloyd Wright, Robie House, 1906.

Frank Lloyd Wright,

Unity Temple, Oak Park, Ill.,

1905-08

Frank Lloyd Wright, Johnson Wax Building,

Racine Wisconsin, 1936-39.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Taliesin East, Spring Green, Wisconsin,

1911.

Taliesin West, Scottsdale Arizona, 1937.

Frank Lloyd Wright, Ennis House, Los Angeles, Ca., 1924.

Go to youtube.com: Fallingwater (etereastudios). A film by Christobal Vila.

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FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, Kaufmann House (Fallingwater), Bear Run,
Pennsylvania, 1936–1939.

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Frank Lloyd Wright 1. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g04297 5. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.il0039 Some designs and executed buildings by Frank Frederick C. Robie House, 5757 Woodlawn Avenue, Lloyd Wright, architect Chicago, Cook County, IL 2. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g01871 House ("Bogk House") for Frederick C. Bogk, 2420 North Terrace Avenue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Stone lintel] http://memory.loc.gov/cgi- bin/query/r?pp/hh:@field(DOCID+@lit(PA1690)) Fallingwater, State Route 381 (Stewart Township), Ohiopyle vicinity, Fayette County, PA 3. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/gsc.5a25495 Guggenheim Museum, 88th St. & 5th Ave., New York City. Under construction III. 6. 4. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c11252 http://memory.loc.gov/cgi- bin/query/r?ammem/alad:@field(DOCID+@lit(h19 Frank Lloyd Wright, Baroness Hilla Rebay, and 240)) Solomon R. Guggenheim standing beside a model of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum] / Midway Gardens, interior, Chicago, IL Margaret Carson #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 PREVIOUS NEXT RECORDS LIST NEW SEARCH HELP Item 10 of 375 How to obtain copies of this item TITLE: Some designs and executed buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright, architect CALL NUMBER: Illus in NA737.W7 A4 1917 (Case Y) [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-4297 (color film copy transparency) LC-USZ62-116098 (b&w film copy neg.) SUMMARY: Silhouette of building with steeples on cover of Japanese journal issue devoted to Frank Lloyd Wright, with Japanese and English text. MEDIUM: 1 print : woodcut(?), color. CREATED/PUBLISHED: [1917] NOTES: Illus.
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