FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, Modern Empiricist

“Nature is my manifestation of God.

I go to nature everyday for inspiration in the day’s work.”

- Frank Lloyd Wright

Project Name: Falling WaterLocation: Mill Run, Pennsylvania, Bear Run Nature Reserve, USA – over a 30ft live waterfallYear of construction: 1936-37Typology: Residential BuildingFunction: Weekend Retreat for the Kaufmanns

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Project Name: Johnson Wax Office BuildingLocation: Racine, Wisconsin, 200 miles from Chicago - on the shores of Lake MichiganYear of Construction: 1936-39,1944Typology: Public BuildingFunction: World Headquarters & Administration Building of S.C.Johnson & Sons

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Influences on F.L.Wright’s Architecture

Nature Froebel Blocks Japanese Art and

Architecture Louis Sullivan

Johnson Wax Office Building

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THE GREAT WORKROOM

PYREX GLASS

TOWER

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GROUND FLOOR PLAN FIRST FLOOR PLAN

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PLANPLAN

Influences

Gongen-style plan

Section of east pagoda of the temple of Yakushi-ji

Section of tower-Johnson Wax Office Building

Lotus-pad

Dendriform InternalColumn in Johnson Wax Office

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FeaturesFeatures

•Building isolated from its environment•Building looks inward•No windows•Long blind facades•Impressive red brick walls•Materials used include red Kasota sandstone and reinforced concrete with cold drawn mesh used for the reinforcement•200 different shapes of bricks designed by Wright can be found in the building

•Utopian workspace, self-sufficient and a bit futuristic•Modern streamlined atmosphere communicated through a consistent circular language; curved corner profiles, rounded shapes in furniture pieces, and use of Pyrex glass tubing extending beyond roofing materials for wall dividers and replacing conventional windows

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Kaufmann House - Falling Water (First Floor)

Main room

Dining AreaCoats

Staff

Kitchen

Clustered organization around central core

Cantilever extend living areas into the nature integrating them with surrounding landscape

Contrast in materials used for vertical and horizontal elements

Second Floor Third Floor

Building along site contour A view of the guest house

Chimney again as the highest point

Elegant and Open interiors

First Floor Plan Second Floor Plan

The Guest House

Similarities

•Inspiration from nature•Influence of Japanese art & architecture•Open interior planning•Masterful play of plastic compositions•Emphasis on the horizontal with stark definitive vertical axes•Integration of structural material into a symbolic representation

Dissimilarities

Johnson Wax OfficeBuilding

Fallingwater

•Symmetric Plan•Inward-looking

•Assymmmetric Plan•Outward-looking

References & Bibliography:References & Bibliography:•Anthony Alofsin,Frank Lloyd and Modernism,Frank Lloyd:Architect,The Museum of Modern Art,New York(1994)

•Kevin Nute,Frank Lloyd Wright and Japan,Chapman and Hall Publishers(1993)

•Kenneth Frampton,Modernization and Meditation:Frank Lloyd Wright and the Impact of Technology, Frank Lloyd:Architect,The Museum of Modern Art,New York(1994)

•http://en.wikiarquitectura.com/index.php/Johnson_Wax_Building

•http://www.archdaily.com/90519/ad-classics-s-c-johnson-and-son-administration-building-frank-lloyd-wright/

•http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Johnson_Wax_Building.html

•http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallingwater

•http://en.wikiarquitectura.com/index.php/Fallingwater_House

•http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8603.html

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