Organic architecture

Is It Organic Architecture, or Not? Years ago, I was traveling out in western America and I discovered something truly remarkable. It was the buildings; they had aesthetics that blended in with their environment and landscape around them, appearing as if they were part of the desert (environment) themselves. Stone and marble rock garnered the front exteriors, much similar to the ones laying on the ground. The exterior walls had tan or brown stucco, giving the feel of the western desert. Then, the roofs, something I will never forget. The structures had red, brown, and tan clay tiled roofs which replicated the sunny, yet sandy deserts they inhabited. It was truly breathtaking to see how the colors and textures of these buildings perfectly…

Linearity and Organic Architecture Modernisms - AR548 Jed Cracknell Word Count: • Introduction o Nature in modern architecture o Leading to organic architecture Linearity is a theme seen throughout architecture from the modernist era. It is present in many different styles such as Frank Lloyd Wrights Prairie School Style of architecture seen around the 1890’s to 1920’s. Following this Frank Lloyd Wright’s Textile style of architecture is seen to have strong links to…

Different from all architects at his time, Frank Lloyd Wright, Sullivan's disciple, treated rules as something to be broken when needed. Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture was rooted in nature; he called it organic. How did he make his organic architecture apply to time, to environment and to man? How did he merge environment to urban and rural buildings with the use of different materials? Wright chose the word organic to describe his architecture and first used the term in a public address in…

Architects are artists whose art are sometimes overlooked, but will be viewed until the end of time. Their creations are ageless and helps define the history of the area surrounding it. Their creations itself are history and this is why I want to be an architect. In my research of everything architecture, specifically in America, I discovered many iconic architecture works and architects that created a legacy…

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…

"A philosophy of architectural design, emerging in the early 20th cent., asserting that in structure and appearance a building should be based on organic forms and should harmonize with its natural environment." — Dictionary of Architecture and Construction Organic Architecture is a style that aims to be in unison with the environment. It strives to be in harmony with nature; not dominate and destroy it. This architectural style seeks to blend in with its environment, to appear as if the house…

Frank Lloyd Wright believed that organic Architecture was the new style of Architecture, he wanted to represent a new way of designing, his own style which best represented his believes. Nature for Frank was like God, he believed that the building itself should not be included on top of the landscape but it should be introduced within the landscape. Frank Lloyd wright took his believes from his mentor Louis Sullivan with whom he’ll design many houses. The idea of including nature within the…

Henry Van de Velde in Modern Architecture Henry Van de Velde existed during the movements of Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau, Art Deco and Modernism. He is said to be the father of both Art Nouveau and Modernism and the ideals and theories of design that belong to each movement. Van de Velde was a painter and architect obsessed with the activation of the line. The curve was a true form of organic expression and became an idea that accompanied the work of Van de Velde. Another desire of Van de…

Marissa Alicea Modern Worlds Midterm Paper ARCH 4140 Prof. Kalipoliti Fall 2015 In The Belly of an Architect, Stourley Kracklite’s obsession with Boullee’s architecture blinds him from the things that are essential to his success as an architect and his happiness. As a result, he thinks his wife is poisoning him, rather than the cause of his cancer being due to other factors. He sees Caspasian stealing his exhibition and neglects that he’s stealing his wife. His idealism of Boullee’s…

Before the 20th century, American residential architecture was very influenced by the European architecture, through its Victorian mansions, Italian villas, among others. However, a Chicago architect named Frank Lloyd Wright believed that his originality and creativity did not depend of Europe styles of architecture. He wanted to create a distinctly American architecture. However, he had not yet travelled to Europe until 1909, when left United States of America for the first time in order to…