MODERN ARCHITECTURE SINCE 1900
Frank Lloyd Wright
Chapter 7
1. I found the "detail" work of the Robie house interesting, how his choices he felt would make the home more unified due to the architectural system requirements of consistent detail. With this he chose to use stained glass windows, and elongated roman bricks. Both with other examples kept the flow of horizontal dominance. I actually read online too that FLW designed a lot of his own interior elements in spaces such as the glass work and furniture.
2. You can see his belief in Organic Architecture in a few of his examples highlighted in the chapter. Organic Architecture promotes harmony between humans and nature through design. Like the Coonley house (1932) and the Martin house (1904). The chapter however doesn't show his best example of this, Fallingwater (1935), which is one of his best known works, and what I personally remember him for.
3. You could also tell his Japanese influences in a lot of his works. The chapter offered examples of japanese prints that his was influenced by. For example the roofs in the Ward Willits house and in the Martin house are fairly similar to the roof in the japanese example of the Ho-ho-den Temple.
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