FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

His works, beliefs and style

Aagya Ghimire (CHI077BAR001)

Biggyan Sitaula (CHI077BAR006)
Savyata Bohora (CHI077BAR021)

 ABOUT
● 1867-1959
● Wisconsin, United States
● Phoenix,architect and writer, an abundantly creative master of American
architecture.
● Wright studied civil engineering at the University of Wisconsin
● It was from his wife that he developed an early love for pure geometric forms and
designs, which influenced his architecture.
● Notable work: Falling water , robie house, guggenheim museum, Unity temple
● Awards: RIBA Gold Medal,AIA Gold Medal
Principles :

❏ Pioneer the concept of Organic Architecture

❏ Building : Functional & Humane
❏ Building : Time & Place
❏ Native materials, eg: branch of a tree - a natural cantilever
❏ The New Architecture : Principles
● Nature
● Organic
● Form and Function are one
● Romance
● Tradition
● Ornament
● Spirit
● Third dimension
● Space

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 1. a philosophy of architecture advocating harmony of the
human establishment with the natural organic ambience.

2. building is implemented to foster unification of the

Organic building with nature as a “unified organism.

Architecture 3. blending interiors and exteriors and maintaining a

harmonic ambience, organic architecture strives for the
unification of the human habitat with nature.
term coined by Frank Lloyd
Wright (1867–1959)

4. simplicity and repose are important qualities to assess the

value of architecture. Thus, there is a need to simplify the
design of structure, limiting the number of distinct rooms
by instead rethinking them as open spaces.

Prairie Style: Emphasis on the horizontal rather than

vertical

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Concept :

❖ Harmony between people and

nature
❖ Harmony between form and
function

Falling Water
Southwest Pennsylvania 5
Design :
❖ Designed in two parts : Main House & Guest House
❖ Fireplace hearth in the living room integrates boulders
❖ Rock cuts into fireplace, physically bringing in the waterfall into the
house
❖ Extending the chimney upwards to make it the highest point on the
exterior of the house
❖ Terraces form a complex, overriding horizontal force with their
protrusions that liberated space with their risen planes parallel to
the ground

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Concept :

❖ Contrast with surrounding

buildings due to its spiral form,
emphasised by the fusion between
triangles, ovals, arches, squares
and circles

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

New York
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Design :

❖ Cylindrical building ,wider at the top than the bottom

❖ Temple of the Spirit
❖ Unique ramp gallery extends from ground level in a long
,continuous spiral along the outer edges of the building to end
just under the ceiling skylight

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Concept :

❖ Sense of unity

Darwin D Martin House

New York
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Design :

❖ Reduce the no. of necessary parts of the house and the separate
rooms to a minimum, and make all come together as an enclosed
space
❖ Unusual large size and open plan
❖ On the ground floor, an entry hall bisects the house
❖ Entry hall continues on axis to the pergola and conservatory beyond
❖ Rectilinearity of the units that form the house’s T-shaped plan is reinforced
by the geometry of its leaded-glass windows and custom -made furnishings
❖ Cluster of piers in the expansive first story rooms allow for continuous bands
of windows at the house’s perimetre

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 Unity Temple
monolithic Unity Temple with no steeple or
clear entrance was unlike other places of
worship.

divided the building into two separate

volumes. Unity Temple provide spaces for
the community to worship, while Unity
House was intended as the socialising
space.

concept for the building enabled a series of

concrete forms to be repeated multiple
times. concrete was left uncovered by
plaster, brick, or stone.

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● an obstruction-less volume on the site that confirms its massive
presence.

● building facade a monolith wall with no windows, the

clerestory adds to the play of light and dark.

● In the four-storey worship space, 25 stained glass windows are

coloured in hues of yellow and brown, to reference natural
tones.

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Taliesin West
was architect Frank Lloyd Wright's winter
home and studio located in Scottsdale,
Arizona.

Now, headquarters of the Frank Lloyd

Wright Foundation, UNESCO Heritage and
National Historic Landmark.

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• Wright began to conceive of a desert utopia
comprised of low-slung buildings designed to reflect
the sweeping expansiveness of the desert.
• Always in favor of local materials, Wright would
construct Taliesin West largely of “desert masonry”:
local rock set in wooden forms and bound by a
mixture of cement and desert sand.
• preserve as much of the desert environment as
possible by embedding his structures within the
landscape.
• Each building is connected through a series of
walkways, terraces, pools and gardens. Wright
designed all of the interior furniture and decorations,
the majority of which were made on site by the
apprentices.

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 Hollyhock House,
Los Angeles
Mayan revival architecture

pre-Columbian Mexico for inspiration for

the project, giving the exterior of the home
the look of an ancient temple.

home’s inclined upper walls and

colonnades, which bear a similarity to the
shapes of temples in Palenque, a Mayan
city state in southern Mexico built during
the seventh century AD.

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● unique features, from its 250 pound cast concrete
doors to camouflaged locks to art glass windows
throughout, it also gives lots of nods to Barnsdall’s
favorite flower, the Hollyhock.

● incorporated many Japanese details in the design of

the Hollyhock House, including a set of authentic
18th-century Japanese screens, also a Buddhist
sculpture at the end of a long hallway that’s lined with
art glass.

● house itself is formed by hollow clay and covered with

stucco, a common building material used in Southern
California.

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● 67m tower divided into 19
floors, completed in 1956
● Wright nicknamed the building
the “the tree that escaped the
crowded forest” that was not
only a play on his concept, but
a reference to a high-rise
building that Wright had
designed for Manhattan, yet
was never built.
● Supported by a central trunk
whose axes divide the inside of
the vertical tower in four
separate quadrants forming
four elevator shafts which are
anchored to the ground by
deep foundation, like a tree PRICE TOWER
and its main root.
Oklahoma

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● Price Tower was designed as four quadrants based on the
geometry of a 30-60-90° double parallelogram module—one
quadrant for double-height apartments and three quadrants
for private offices.
● The lines and divisions served as a way in which to divide
the volume and spaces on each floor plan into a more unique
organizational system rather than a typical office tower.
● The Price Tower today is known as the Price Tower Arts
Center that has become a museum for art, architecture, and
design. In addition to the museum, the tower maintains an
inn that allows visitors to experience Frank Lloyd Wright’s
original design and details for his only high rise project.
● Wright wished to visually connect the inside of a building with
the landscape outside by using similar materials on both the
interior and exterior, such as the copper panels, concrete,
and aluminum trim.

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Frederick C. Robie
House, Chicago
U.S. National Historic Landmark
built between 1909 and 1910.
It is considered perhaps the
finest example of Prairie School,
the first architectural style
considered uniquely American.

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 One of the best known examples of Frank Lloyd
Wright's Prairie style of architecture.
Prairie style houses had designs with low horizontal
lines and open interior space.
He increased the horizontal sweep of the house by
using cantilevered roofs that extend beyond the walls
at each end.

The main living space is a single, light-filled room divided only by a central chimney.
The open plan design was revolutionary for the time, and created a modern, flexible living
space for the Robie family, consisting of a dining area and a living area.

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Johnson Wax Headquarters were in an industrial zone,
and Wright decided to create a sealed environment lit
from above, as he had done with the Larkin
Administration Building. The building features Wright's
interpretation of the streamlined Art Moderne style
popular in the 1930s.

The entrance is within the structure, penetrating the

building on one side with a covered carport on the other

The Johnson Buildings represent a break from the

Prairie style, infusing aesthetics from streamline
modern into his materially rich and light driven
vocabulary.

The building is prominently in two parts, the first section

is the administrative building (1936-1939) and the
second part being the Research Tower (1944-1950)

Connected to the Administration Building by a bridge,

the Research Tower rises 153 feet above ground and
bores 54 feet underground.
JOHNSHON WAX HEADQUARTERS
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The dendriform columns are 9
inches (23 cm) in diameter at
the bottom and 18 feet (550
cm) in diameter at the top, on a
wide, round platform that
Wright termed, the "lily pad.

The Research Tower is no

longer in use because of the
change in fire safety codes,
although the company is
committed to preserving the
tower as a symbol of its history.

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