Selection of the oeuvre Robie House, 1908-1910, Chicago, Illinois

frank lloyd wrightHarmonization with Nature

StudentRené Buitenhuis

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StudentJohan Bogaart

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StudentTerry Pater4035194

StudentKlaas Veenboer

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TeacherKarina Moraes Zarzar

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Selection of the oeuvre

Robie House, 1908-1910, Chicago, Illinois Falling Waters, 1934-1937, Bear Run, Pennsylvania

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Harmonization with nature, An introduction.

Biography

Simplicity by use of basic forms like in nature

To design without hard borders

Continuity in routing

To merge the building with nature

Buildings to grow out of the ground, into the light

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Frank Lloyd Wright Residence

1889 Oak Park, Illinois

Susan Lawrence Dana house

1899-1900 Springfield, Illinois

Ward Willits house 1902-1903

Highland Park,Illinois

Coonley house 1907-1908

Riverside, Illinois

Hollyhock1916-1921

Los Angeles,Californië

Ennis house1923-1924

Los Angeles,Californië

Taliesin Fellowship Complex 1932-1939

Spring Green, Wisconsin

Frank Thomas house 1901

Oak Park,Illinois

R&G Pauson house 1939-1940

Phoenix, Arizona

Boomer house1953

Phoenix, Arizona

Solar Hemicycle1944-1948

Middleton, Wisconsin

Early Work 1889 - 1900 Prairie Houses 1900 - 1910 Ornamentperiod 1916 - 1924 Taliesinperiod 1924 - 1953 Post-war period 1945 - 1959

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867) started working for architect Joseph Lyman Silsbee in Chicago in 1887, af-ter studying civil engineering. There, Wright designed his first building, the Lloyd-Jones family chap-el. One year later, he went to work for the firm of Adler and Sullivan, directly under Louis Sullivan. Throughout his life, Wright credits Sullivan as a primary influence on his career, and he adapted and developed Sullivan’s maxim “Form Follows Function”, and his belief that American architecture should be based on American function, not European traditions.

In 1893 Wright opened his own firm. Wright’s early houses had a style of their own; built with natural materials, low-pitched rooflines with deep overhangs, uninterrupted walls, open plans and large stone fireplaces in the homes’ heart and made the rooms open to one another. His simplistic houses serve as defining examples of the Prairie School.

In 1911, after returning from two years in Germany, Wright establishes in Taliesin, Wisconsin, and over the next 20 years Wright’s influence continued to grow in popularity in the United States and Europe, Wright developed en refined a style quite different from other architects of the time. He proclaimed

that shapes found in the environment should be not only integrated, but should become the basis of American architecture.

In 1932, Wright opened Taliesin up as an architectural fellowship where young students could pay to work with and learn from him. Thirty apprentices came to live with him at Taliesin. Through the Taliesin Fellowship, Wright created masterpieces such as Fallingwater (the Kaufmann House) in Bear Run, Pennsylvania, and the SC Johnson and Son Wax Company Administration Center in Racine, Wisconsin.

In 1937, Wright moved his fellowship to Phoenix, Arizona where he built Taliesin West and spent the last twenty years of his life. At Taliesin West, Wright integrated the outdoors with his indoor spaces. He designed high sloping roofs, translucent ceilings, and large, open doors and windows that created a subtle distinction between the home and the environment. By the time of his death in 1959, he had created 532 completed designs, and had become internationally recognized for his innova-tive building style and contemporary designs.

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In this poster we give a little insight in the way F.L. Wright incorporates nature in his buildings, the way he is always looking for harmony and balance. Early in his life he came to live on a farm where he discovered the beauty of nature, he would try to keep connected with this nature for the rest of his life. We show how he found ways to harmonize his buildings with the nature which surrounds them.

F.L. Wright himself referred to his way of thinking like ‘’Nature spelled with a capital N the way you spell God with a capital G’’ And further maintained that ‘’Nature is all body of God we will ever know.’’ One way to achieve this harmonization is to use basic forms like in nature, even the most complex structure is composed out of simple forms. Natural cycles are found in the continuity, one

can walk around the house in a continue flow without retracing, much like the cycles of the seasons or like the cycle of life. The use of natural materials throughout the buildings in and outside is typical for most of his work and come to a climax in Falling Waters where the rocks are integrated in the structure and form a tactile element in the living room.

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A - Ward Willits house, 1902-1903, Highland Park, Illinois B - R&G Pauson house, 1939-1940, Phoenix, Arizona

McCarter, R. (1997) Frank Lloyd Wright (London) Phaidon PressPfeiffer, B. B. (1987) Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1907-1913 Volume 3 (Tokyo) Edita, A.D.A.Pfeiffer, B. B. (2007)Frank Loyd Wright (Koln) TaschenStorrer, W.A. (1994) The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion (Chicago) University Of Chicago Press

Bibliography & Iconographyhttp://lh3.ggpht.com (16 dec 2009)www.fallingwater.org (17 dec 2009)www.greatbuildings.com (17 dec 2009)www.greatbuildings.com (14 dec 2009)www.visitoakpark.com (16 dec 2009)

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F.L.Wright evolved during his entire career his own style of architecture, starting with the base he learned at Sullivans office. More and more his love for nature takes part in the design process and is a continue source of inspiration. F.L. Wright followed the theme ‘’Harmonization with Nature’’ his whole active career. This was founded in his youth when he lived for a while on a farm. He harmo-nizes the buildings with nature by use of some performances. Wright makes use of slabs and balco-nies to interact inside and outside, natural elements like rocks (natural stone) and unpainted wood are strong references which are used throughout the building. In the interior Wright uses the nature to show unity in form, construction and detail. By use of natural materials F.L. Wright enforces the theme ”Harmonization with Nature”.

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