Eunice Lee
Daniel Aeschbacher
Design History #2
25 November 2015
Frank Lloyd Wright
While I was staying in Chicago for studying, I found the landscape with grand and full of high beautiful buildings was fascinatingly alluring people including myself. Especially, Frank Lloyd Wright was one of the most famous architectural designers. My personal experience with his buildings: Rookery building, Frank Lloyd Wright’s home and studio, and Falling Water.
Frank Lloyd Wright, who is the most well-known and the prolific architect, spent the first 20 years of his career in Chicago. Using his ability which was to integrate fundamental look and the landscape, he expressed his deep desired nature. In 1874, the Great Chicago Fire killed the city. It …show more content…
When he purchased the property and built the house in 1889, the original structure was fairly small. There was renovation in 1895: the kitchen was enlarged and converted into a dining room; the upstairs nursery was replaced into the children’s playroom and the dayroom of Catherine who was wife of Wright also; a new kitchen was placed in the back of the house. In 1898, a second renovation was enhanced. For instance, the connecting corridor was built as well as the studio. Later, the studio was converted into a residence for his wife and the younger children and became an apartment building. Wright made numerous changes to the original shingle-style, which is a style of continuous volume, structure as his ideas evolved. The studio was merged with raw-textured materials; octagon shapes were repeated throughout the rooms. Advocating an organic, craftsman sensibility, anticipating the linearity and openness of modernism, Wright designed his house in horizontal lines, and it essentially represented the Prairie style in the …show more content…
Falling water is the most favored and notorious piece by everyone. Despite its difficulty to design over a waterfall, Wright utilized the architectural device known as the cantilever and completed its form; Cantilever construction tolerates for overhanging structures, using rigid structural element, such as a beam or a plate. Through Falling water, Wright’s ultimate style of organic and harmonious with surroundings, was publicized. For the purpose of the weekend retreat for the Kaufmann family, it was built. When Wright came to see the environment of the property, he soon realized the sound of the fall, dramatic rock ledges, and the young forest were vitalized deeply. The belief, he had, was the connection between nature and human. According to Fallingwater by Edgar Kaufmann, he understood “the people were creatures of nature, hence an architecture which conformed to nature would conform to what was basic in people.” Eventually, broad bands of windows opened the view, and on the other hand, the deep cave protected people inside. The luminous textured woodland was patterned rhythmically, and the rocks and trees were blended in it. More importantly, sociability and privacy were both obtainable, by way of the relaxations and stunning
Daniel Aeschbacher
Design History #2
25 November 2015
Frank Lloyd Wright
While I was staying in Chicago for studying, I found the landscape with grand and full of high beautiful buildings was fascinatingly alluring people including myself. Especially, Frank Lloyd Wright was one of the most famous architectural designers. My personal experience with his buildings: Rookery building, Frank Lloyd Wright’s home and studio, and Falling Water.
Frank Lloyd Wright, who is the most well-known and the prolific architect, spent the first 20 years of his career in Chicago. Using his ability which was to integrate fundamental look and the landscape, he expressed his deep desired nature. In 1874, the Great Chicago Fire killed the city. It …show more content…
When he purchased the property and built the house in 1889, the original structure was fairly small. There was renovation in 1895: the kitchen was enlarged and converted into a dining room; the upstairs nursery was replaced into the children’s playroom and the dayroom of Catherine who was wife of Wright also; a new kitchen was placed in the back of the house. In 1898, a second renovation was enhanced. For instance, the connecting corridor was built as well as the studio. Later, the studio was converted into a residence for his wife and the younger children and became an apartment building. Wright made numerous changes to the original shingle-style, which is a style of continuous volume, structure as his ideas evolved. The studio was merged with raw-textured materials; octagon shapes were repeated throughout the rooms. Advocating an organic, craftsman sensibility, anticipating the linearity and openness of modernism, Wright designed his house in horizontal lines, and it essentially represented the Prairie style in the …show more content…
Falling water is the most favored and notorious piece by everyone. Despite its difficulty to design over a waterfall, Wright utilized the architectural device known as the cantilever and completed its form; Cantilever construction tolerates for overhanging structures, using rigid structural element, such as a beam or a plate. Through Falling water, Wright’s ultimate style of organic and harmonious with surroundings, was publicized. For the purpose of the weekend retreat for the Kaufmann family, it was built. When Wright came to see the environment of the property, he soon realized the sound of the fall, dramatic rock ledges, and the young forest were vitalized deeply. The belief, he had, was the connection between nature and human. According to Fallingwater by Edgar Kaufmann, he understood “the people were creatures of nature, hence an architecture which conformed to nature would conform to what was basic in people.” Eventually, broad bands of windows opened the view, and on the other hand, the deep cave protected people inside. The luminous textured woodland was patterned rhythmically, and the rocks and trees were blended in it. More importantly, sociability and privacy were both obtainable, by way of the relaxations and stunning