RR 11 Due April 4 Frank Lloyd Wrights Modernization

Frank Lloyd Wrights Modernization

·         Frank Lloyd Wight’s early work was linked to Morris’s English Arts and Crafts movement

·         Believed in embracing the machine

·         Tried to emphasize horizontal lines in design

·         Was into the Victorian style

·         Like the cross shape plan, fireplace being the middle

·         Believed in taking up landscape

·         Influenced by Japanese style

Throughout the reading and the concepts talked upon during class in the past week I think the overall point to get out of this was that Wright was modernizing the suburban architecture. He modernizes architecture in general actually from furniture also. He believed in the shaping of architecture as a cross to have a main focal point within. Mainly a fire place but he started into an open space instead of rooms for each event. Living rooms, dining rooms are open for gathering instead of being closed off. I think Wright was expanding and breaking the rules with trying things that weren’t the norm. Prairie style homes and bootleg homes are definitely not the norm.  Art and crafts are starting to become more important. Machines or no machines were the question during this time. New ways of making things stylish and modern was the key movement. I think Wrights new styles helped start something new in to moving ways of building structures that have influences from other regions. I think Wright influenced the style of Victorian and Prairie styles for today more because of his design early in the 20^th century. Wrights design to me said that he knew where he got his ideas through the style but had an extra flow to it with his ideas. He didn’t forget the past but he didn’t forget to have the future in there as well. Lloyd wasnt afraid to express his views that broke traditional architecture designs. I think the opening of space was a huge thing. He modernized that in my opinion to have more mutual rooms. In Falling Water this strucutre I feel like he modernized in the way we use natural structures into building great designs around them to complement. The inside used its already rocks and boulders as a way to have furniture/decoration. Just using what the Earth provides us can turn something so little into a famous structure such as Falling Water.



Lloyds home and studio



Lloyds Falling water plan