FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, Modern Empiricist

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature everyday for inspiration in the days work.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Project Name: Falling Water Location: Mill Run, Pennsylvania, Bear Run Nature Reserve, USA over a 30ft live waterfall Year of construction: 1936-37 Typology: Residential Building Function: Weekend Retreat for the Kaufmanns

Influences on F.L.Wrights Architecture

Nature Froebel Blocks Japanese Art and Architecture Louis Sullivan

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THE GREAT WORKROOM

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GROUND FLOOR PLAN

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FIRST FLOOR PLAN

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TOWER PYREX GLASS

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PLAN

Influences

Section of east pagoda of the temple of Yakushi-ji

Section of tower-Johnson Wax Office Building

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Gongen-style plan

Lotus-pad
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Dendriform Internal Column in Johnson Wax Office

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Features

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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)

Staff
Kitchen Coats Dining Area

Main room

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

The Guest House

First Floor Plan

Second Floor Plan

Building along site contour

A view of the guest house

Chimney again as the highest point

Elegant and Open interiors

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 Office Building
Symmetric Plan Inward-looking

Fallingwater
Assymmmetric Plan Outward-looking

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)
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Thank You
Deepnath Majumder,10AR10008 Abhishek Ramanathan,10AR10003