Frank Loyd Wright developed a very personal style based on his beliefs in architecture, interior decoration and landscape architecture working all together. The word organic is constantly used to describe his architecture, meaning that the architecture blends with the nature, but not necessarily using organic shapes, since he argues that no geometry form fights the nature.
Been an early modernist, he breaks away from the notion of looking to the past. He believed that the Victorian style rooms were too boxed and confining, so he began to work with open floor plans and large windows, bringing the outside in. The basic principle of his work is that the building must be an extension of the environment where it is built. His first works for example are very horizontal, blending with the ground, which is the reason why it is called “prairie houses”.
Been an early modernist, he breaks away from the notion of looking to the past. He believed that the Victorian style rooms were too boxed and confining, so he began to work with open floor plans and large windows, bringing the outside in. The basic principle of his work is that the building must be an extension of the environment where it is built. His first works for example are very horizontal, blending with the ground, which is the reason why it is called “prairie houses”.
He designed everything from furniture to factories. Despite his talent, he was not able to develop a school since his work was so personal that it was hard to pass it through lessons. He left followers, but they could not reinterpretate his style, creating just copies.
His project of the Fallingwater House from 1930 was a symbol of the thoughts of that time, that modern architecture could change your life and make you able to gain spiritual values just by inhabiting a building with an ideology behind it. In fact, this project is a great example of how his architecture blends with the context. Despite the heavy large cantilever balconies with flat geometrical shape, the house seems to float over the waterfall and belong to the place.
Sudki, D 2010, Centurions: Frank Lloyd Wright, Web. Avaiable at: Bob National. [Accessed in 6 February 2015]