FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT BIOGRAPHY Frank Llyod Wright 1867
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
BIOGRAPHY • Frank Llyod Wright (1867 -1959) is unquestion-ably American’s most celebrated architect. Even today, almost forty years after his death, he continues to tower over the arhitectural landscape. In fact, his career was long and accomplishments so varied it can be difficult still to grasp the full range of Wright’s achievement. 2
ARCHITURAL CONCEPTION Wright’s philosophy of organic architecture sought unity in every detail, from furniture to freeways. Over his seventy- year career, he explored ideas that began with the American’s home and expanded to include the relationship between architecture and community. 3
CHARLES ENNIS HOUSE LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA , (1923 -1924) • A large portion of the Ennis house is given over the massive concrete block retaining walls that support the building on the steeply -pitched hillside. The other concrete block houses by Frank Llyod Wright , built in the same rehion and at about the same time , have a scale that is more typical of his treat-ment of residential architecture. 4
SOLOMON R. GUGGENHIEM MUSEUM NEW YORK, (1943 -1946) • When asked why he chose the ramp , instead of level floors in the conventional stack , Wright explanined that he felt the museum-goer would find it far more convenient to enter the building, take the elevator to the top ramp , gradually descend around an open court , always have the option , as the ramp touched the elevator stack at each level , to either go back , or skip down to further levels, and finally , at the end of the exhibition , he would find himself on the ground floor, near the exit. 5
FALLINGWATER PENNSYLVANIA, (1935 -1939) • In a talk to the Taliesin Fellowship Frank Lloyd Wright said of this house, fallingwater is a great blessing-one of the great blessings to be experienced here on earth. What the building achieves with perhaps more drama than any other single private residence is the placement of man in relation to nature. This important aspect of man and landscape was deebly rooted in Wright. 6
FREDERICK C. ROBIE HOUSE CHICAGO, (1906 -1909) • One of the reasons the Robie house was such as a successful work were the explicit requirements on the part of the client. He wanted a house that was fireproof, that did not have boxed up spaces, that had none of the usual decorator items such as draperies, storebougth carpets. He was engineer by training and desired a home that worked as well as any fine machine. 7
S. C. JHNOSON AND SON COMPANY RESEARCH TOWER RACINE, WISCONSIN, (1944 -1950) • When the S. C. Johnson & Son Company was contemplating the addition of a research laboratory to its plant in Racine, many of its officials considered the Project one that any competent engineer could handle. But Herbet Johnson, who had commissioned Wright in 1936 for the Office building, realized that any structure tangent to the famous administration building would have to respect the character of the former. 8
REFERENCES • http: //www. mimarlikdergisi. com/index. cfm? sayfa=mi marlik&Dergi. Sayi=364&Rec. ID=2220 • Sommer, Robin Langley, 1993, Frank Lloyd Wright: American Architect for the 20 th Century, Brompton Books, Greenwich, ABD. • Brownlee, David B. ve David G. de Long, 2005, Louis I. Kahn: In the Realm of Architecture, Rizzoli, New York. • 1986, “F. L. Wright” , Large Larousse, cilt: 24. • Curtis, William J. R. 1996, Modern Architecture Since 1900, Phaidon, Londra. • Giurgola, Romaldo, 1980, Louis I. Kahn: Works and Projects, Gustavo Gili, Barselona. • https: //www. aarp. org/travel/vacation-ideas/historyculture/info-02 -2013/frank-lloyd-wright-buildings. html • https: //franklloydwright. org/ • Pfeiffer B. B. (1916). FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT. Taschen • Maddex, Diane, 2000, 50 Favorite Houses by Frank Lloyd Wright, Abradale Press, ABD. 9
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