In the late 19th century, another famous American architect — Franck Lloyd Wright, who was an employee of Sullivan’s studio, inherited Sullivan’s idea about relationship between form and function. Wright thinks that architecture should be loyal to not only structure and purpose of itself, but also time, site, and the environment. Based on the idea of organic architecture, combining his practice in “Prairie Style,” Wright had further developed Sullivan’s idea forward it to a more throughout theory of “organic architecture.” In the article “ In the Cause of Architecture” in 1908, Wright wrote, “A sense of the organic is indispensable to an architect; where can he develop it so surely as in this school? A knowledge of the relations of form and
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For instance, his comments on modern residential architecture is that “Human houses should not be like boxes, blazing in the sun, nor should we outrage the machine by trying to make dwelling places too complementary to machinery” (Wright, The Cardboard House). He pointed out the content of use. And when he discuss the harmonious between form and function in organic architecture, his opinion is that form is determined by the nature of the materials and nature of use. In here, he talks about the factors of construction. Even so, when he talks about “organic architecture,” he quote the phrase, “form follows function”, more than once, as the conclusions. Additionally, he amplified that into “form and function are one”. For Frank Lloyd Wright, organic architecture means a integrated unity, which is the unification of whole and portions, the unification of building and environment, and the unification of interior and exterior. Although Wright explain his “organic architecture” a lot of times, there is not a final version of exact definition. By 1930s’, the connotation of “organic architecture” is very …show more content…
And with some misunderstanding on it in some way, when the organic functionalism was revealed and rise again is already 1930. With the rise of International Style, functionalism gradually became the representative of modern architecture. So American architects started to blindly seek out themselves’ roots in this series of ideas, so that they could gain some kind of sense of identity from public opinion on the development of American architecture. In this situation, the “organic form”, what the relationship between function and form based on, had been neglected. So that, the layer of meaning of function, the inner motive power of organic form, has disappeared. And, finally, the “function” talked by people is mostly only restricted in the practical requirement and the function of
For instance, his comments on modern residential architecture is that “Human houses should not be like boxes, blazing in the sun, nor should we outrage the machine by trying to make dwelling places too complementary to machinery” (Wright, The Cardboard House). He pointed out the content of use. And when he discuss the harmonious between form and function in organic architecture, his opinion is that form is determined by the nature of the materials and nature of use. In here, he talks about the factors of construction. Even so, when he talks about “organic architecture,” he quote the phrase, “form follows function”, more than once, as the conclusions. Additionally, he amplified that into “form and function are one”. For Frank Lloyd Wright, organic architecture means a integrated unity, which is the unification of whole and portions, the unification of building and environment, and the unification of interior and exterior. Although Wright explain his “organic architecture” a lot of times, there is not a final version of exact definition. By 1930s’, the connotation of “organic architecture” is very …show more content…
And with some misunderstanding on it in some way, when the organic functionalism was revealed and rise again is already 1930. With the rise of International Style, functionalism gradually became the representative of modern architecture. So American architects started to blindly seek out themselves’ roots in this series of ideas, so that they could gain some kind of sense of identity from public opinion on the development of American architecture. In this situation, the “organic form”, what the relationship between function and form based on, had been neglected. So that, the layer of meaning of function, the inner motive power of organic form, has disappeared. And, finally, the “function” talked by people is mostly only restricted in the practical requirement and the function of