Architecture Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation AZ Washington Art

Architecture Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, AZ Washington Art Smart Grade 5

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Frank Lloyd Wright (1876 -1959) 3

Frank Lloyd Wright once said: “Form follows function—that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union. ” 4

The Arthur B. Heurtley House Oak Park, Illinois: 1902 5

The Robie Residence, Chicago, IL: 1909 6

Prairie Style Houses have the following features: • Low-pitched roof • Overhanging eaves • Horizontal lines • Central chimney • Open floor plan • Clerestory windows 7

Inside views of a Prairie style house. 8

• Where is your school located? • How many stories? Or is it all one level? • What kind of needs do you and future students have? • How will you accommodate those needs through design? • What special features will the school have? • How will those elements reflect the school’s need to watch costs, help the environment and benefit the students? 9

Cool School Examples Ørestad College – the Danish equivalent to a high school – has an open, modern design with colorful transparent glass shades that liven up its boxy exterior and rotate automatically with the sun. Ørestad High School, Copenhagen, Denmark 10

The interior is full of swirling staircases and platforms upon which students lounge on big orange pillows. 11

It looks more like museum, but this uber-contemporary building by an Austrian design firm in Central Los Angeles is actually a public high school. High School #9 for the visual and performing arts holds 1, 800 students and features an interior theatre that can seat 1, 000. 12

Enjoy the next 11 slides of amazing architecture! City of the Dead Teotihuacan, Mexico 13

Mind House (Barcelona, Spain) 14

The Crooked House (Sopot, Poland) 15

Stone House (Guimarães, Portugal) 16

Cathedral of Brasilia (Brazil) 17

Atomium (Brussels, Belgium) 18

Kansas City Library (Missouri, USA) 19

Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Egypt) 20

House Attack (Viena, Austria) 21

Nautilus House (Mexico City, Mexico) 22

Cubic Houses (Kubus woningen) (Rotterdam, Netherlands) 23

Low impact woodland house (Wales, UK) 24