Great Minds Think Alike
Many people often get asked, “If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go?” Imagine a ticket of endless possibilities that could transport you anywhere in the world, wouldn’t that be amazing? Well, if I had such a ticket I know exactly where I would go, into the amazing mind of Frank Lloyd Wright. I would want to go into his mind to see some of his undrafted ideas, the thought process behind his ideas, and what problems he struggled with.
Mr. Wright was an amazing architect in not just his generation, but in the generations that followed. He created some of Americas most iconic and extravagant buildings that many people often wondered how he came up with the ideas. I struggle with this same problem also.
If I had a ticket I would want to go into his mind just to see what other outrageous ideas he had but didn’t make it onto the drafting table. Being able to look at this ideas would help mold me into a much better architect because I would basically have the opportunity to be an apprentice to Mr. Wright. A legend that precedes Mr. Wright is the time he drafted “Falling Water”. He was asked to design a vacation home for a client and was given months for the design process. Within the months given he didn’t work on the project at all. Approximately 4 hours till the arrival of the client, Mr. Wright started his drafting process and was able to complete a project that would have taken any other architect months to complete. Being able to go into his mind would give me the ability to see how he was able to come up with ideas on a dime and draft them in hours. A ticket into his mind would be like a dream come true. Like every profession comes problems, but Mr. Wright was so calm and cool he seems to have no problems at all. So what problems did he struggle with in his design process? He was never very outspoken about problems with his work so it makes one wonder if he had any at all. A ticket into his mind would let me see these problems that he faced and work off of them. If he faced these problems as a great architect then more than likely I would come into contact with the same issues. Being able to reach into his mind I could pinpoint these problems and deal with them early on, before they become a huge problem. I feel going to your school, with its outstanding architecture program, would give me the opportunity to unlock these abilities of my own and further my skills so that one day I could become as great as Mr. Wright himself. Going into his mind would help me see his brilliant undrafted ideas, his thought process behind these ideas, and what problems he faced as an amazing architect.
Past experiences and travel were a common ground for Wright and Olmsted as far as inspirations go. Both have personal experiences with nature and a toured land that were used to fuel designs. Wright has reportedly been influenced by a number of different things throughout his entire career, but the most consistent inspiration was Nature. By growing up on a farm he was very close to Nature, a...
"The Wright Brothers | The Aerial Age Begins." National Air and Space Museum |, Alcoa, airandspace.si.edu/exhibitions/wright-brothers/online/age/. Accessed 30 Nov. 2016.
“Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...” ― Richard Wright, Black Boy this is a quote from the famous Richard Wright an African American author. This quote means that no matter what was placed in his way or what he lacked that others had he hung on to what he had and did what he could. And the more he read about the world, the more he longed to see it and make a permanent break from the Jim Crow South. "I want my life to count for something," he told a friend. Richard Wright wanted to make a difference in the world and a difference he did make. Richard Wright was an important figure in American History because he stood astride the midsection of his time period as a battering ram, paving the way for many black writers who followed him, these writers were Ralph Ellison, Chester Himes, James Baldwin, Gwendolyn Brooks, Lorraine Hansberry, John Williams. In some ways he helped change the American society.
Richard Wright has been referred to me for therapy regarding his theft from the local theater, and I believe that he committed this crime because he believes that because of his station in society he would never be able to support himself and his family through honest means. Despite the fact that he does hold some remorse for his actions, it would appear that whatever remorse he holds is tempered by his justifications for stealing. A thorough analysis of his reasoning has been conducted and with testimony from the patient to serve as my proof, I will begin treatment to show him the error of his ways.
Poet, journalist, essayist, and novelist Richard Wright developed from an uneducated Southerner to one of the most cosmopolitan, politically active writers in American literature. In many of Richard Wright's works, he exemplifies his own life and proves to “white” America that African American literature should be taken seriously. Before Wright, “white” America failed to acknowledge the role African American writing played in shaping American culture. It was shocking in itself that an African American could write at all. Thus, Richard Wright is well known as the father of African American literature mainly because of his ability to challenge the literary stereotypes given to African Americans.
1 Years with Frank Lloyd Wright: Apprentice to Genius by Edgar Tafel- McGraw-Hill Education (April 1979)
nature. He called this Organic Architecture. Wright felt the relationship between the site and the building, and the needs of the client where very important. In contrast to Wright, Le Corbusier displayed industrialization rather than nature. ...
The first work to be examined is Taliesin. Located in Hillside, Wisconsin and begun in 1911. Taliesin was built as a lasting monument to his lover, Mamah Borthwick ( Cheney ). It was named after a medieval epic poem from Wales called “ The Book Of Taliesin.” It was built at a time in Wright’s life when his personal and professional lives were nearly in ruins. He referred to Taliesin as a “ refuge and retreat for the woman, the work, and himself.”(Levine 76) When Wright began building Taliesin he had turned over control of his architectural firm to Hermann von Holst and had finally been granted a divorce from his tumultuous marriage to his first wife, Catherine.
From his beginnings in a little town in Wisconsin, the rise of a great architect commenced his journey. No one has attained his level of expertise in the architectural field. Frank Lloyd Wright’s accomplishments are unmatched, was inspired by natural and simplistic designs, and his career flourished by his ingenuity.
In the spring of 1893 Wright decided to build his own house in Oak Park, Illinois. Taking six years to build, Wright was free to experiment with his objectives in residential architecture over the next twenty-year period. Designing and re-constructing his buildings was a continuous process. He always changed his designs. For twenty years this home served as an independent labatory for Wright. This too went under constant changes. Rooms were enlarged or added, ceilings heightened, the arrangement of the windows changed, and the entry route into the house was modified. Wright even allowed the growth of a willow tree to be uninterrupted by placing a hold in the roof of the studio.
His works were totally reflected and enhanced the environment of nature on the site, the whole idea of a house could be were forever changing when it is his design. Wright’s architectural achievements in simplicity and unity were possible to be build supported by the method of the construction and materials like; Reinforced concrete, steel, metal sheet, glass plate and plastics. This genius architect offered a building with a relationship of Architecture and landscape, with community as well. Many projects nowadays have influenced from Wright’s modern styles, this well-known architect has many influences that became his principles. First is his exemplary teacher...
Frank Lloyd Wright wrote ‘appropriate designs for one material would not be appropriate for another material’. In this way, Wright can link with Loos’ theory in which materiality is an important factor for his designs. He considers the materiality as one of the most important aspects of his way of design, resulting in a design purely shaped from the materiality that he has chosen. In the building ‘Falling Water’ we can see the importance of materiality in connection with the surroundings. The materials of the building were chosen in order that they blended in with the rocks and trees outside. The building is made of horizontal slabs of rock which were intended to blend in with the glen. The parapets on the terraces were rounded as well as the concrete roof slabs in a response to the, ‘smooth curve of water over the falls’. As well as this the glass is a way of, ‘playing the same part... that the water plays in the landscape’. This explains to us how important materiality is in relation to the plan and structure of a building and compares to the importance of the materiality used by Loos and the effects that are created. On the exterior modernism expresses Loos importance for glass, steel and concrete. All these materials are used within the construction of Falling Water. However the interior is where Loos really expresses the importance of materiality, using marble and exotic woods. Wright also achieves this on the interior using stonework, creating detailed effects as well as bringing the effects of the exterior inside, echoing the rock ledges and terraces within the shelving and once again rounding the edges, which similar to Loos, creates a rich interior. Unlike many works of modernism, Wright reacts differently with the displ...
Frank Lloyd Wright would not consider the condition of Houston as a whole to be in line with his urban proposal for Broadacres. Moreover, he would be completely against the Downtown area’s verticality and desity but would be less opposed to the suburban sprawl around the main core of the city.
Frank Lloyd Wright was born on June 8, 1867. He was an American educator, writer, and an architect who was responsible for designing more than 1000 various structures. He was one of the first architects to break with the concept of eclecticism and introduced a new style based on the special connection of interpenetrating planes and abstract masses. His vision in life was to emphasize the importance of machines in architecture and his origins on sensitivities, arts and crafts. Frank Lloyd Wright also focused on the relationship of the human body within space and within the surrounding nature using the architectural language of symbolic geometry.
Every famous architect has a story along with their creations. Every architect has a reason to build and design a building like they did. People like Frank Lloyd Wright, Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry, Louis Sullivan and many other amazing architects have a story behind them and where they come from. Similar to me, I loved the idea of building something, I used to play with legos and create huge skyscrapers. I did not know, I was so passionate at such a young age. I always looked at the Bank of America downtown, I always loved all the windows and I said "I'll build it one day." Frank Lloyd Wright, was fascinated by the Wisconsin landscape. "The modeling of the hills, the weaving and the fabric that sticks to them, the appearance of everything in soft green or covered with snow or in full summer light that bursts into the glorious glow of autumn," he later recalled. "I still feel part of it like the trees, the birds and the bees and the red stalls." I feel as if Mr. Lloyd Wright and I share the same passion not only for architecture, but for design and thought process that is put into