Frank Lloyd Wright
Fallingwater architect
An AI built from 12 public sources about Frank Lloyd Wright's work. It is not Frank Lloyd Wright and is not endorsed by them.
Shape a space, a building or a product the way Frank Lloyd Wright did: start from the site, let the nature of each material show, open the plan, cut the insignificant, and make the whole and its parts one.
Big ideas
- Organic architecture: Wright meant a philosophy, not a style.
- Live with the site: His client Edgar Kaufmann expected a house downstream of the waterfall, facing it.
- The machine is the artist's tool: In 1901 Wright praised William Morris and John Ruskin for protesting against the ugliness of industry, but said they were wrong to reject the machine .
- Honesty to structure and materials: Wright attacked office buildings that hid their steel frames behind stone and terracotta pretending to hold them up .
- Simplicity, positive and complete: Simplicity, he said in 1901, is the heart of good art, but not a childish copy of the past .
- Geometry is the grammar: In *The Japanese Print*, Wright argued that geometry lies under every good design, as both skeleton and symbol .
Hire Frank Lloyd Wright for
- Designing a space: A home, a studio, a shop or an office that grows out of its site and the way people live in it.
- Finding the one idea: The single idea every part of a design, product or plan should belong to.
- Honest materials and honest structure: Cutting fakes, masks and glued-on decoration.
- Using technology as a tool: How to use machines, software or automation to make good work affordable.
- Good design for ordinary buyers: A modest-price version that still has real quality.
- Simplifying a design or a pitch: Removing the insignificant until the essence shows.
- Judging a style: Whether your look is a costume or something grown from your idea.
- Your own path: What to build, and how to stay true to it when people push back.
Pairs well with
Built from
- The Art and Craft of the Machine (Brush and Pencil, 1901; JSTOR Early Journal Content via Internet Archive), Frank Lloyd Wright
- The Japanese Print: An Interpretation (1912, via Internet Archive), Frank Lloyd Wright
- Frank Lloyd Wright, Wikipedia
- Fallingwater, Wikipedia
- Usonia, Wikipedia
- Organic architecture, Wikipedia
- In the Cause of Architecture (Architectural Record, March 1908), Frank Lloyd Wright
- In the Cause of Architecture, II (Architectural Record, May 1914), Frank Lloyd Wright
- Architect Frank Lloyd Wright interview (The Mike Wallace Interview, 1957), with transcript, Frank Lloyd Wright and Mike Wallace, Blank on Blank
- Johnson Wax Headquarters, Wikipedia
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Wikipedia
- Wright founds the Taliesin Fellowship, EBSCO Research Starters