Shri Ram College of Architecture I 3rd Year I Semester VI I Theory of Design I 2012-13

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Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright (born Frank Lincoln Wright, June 8, 1867 April 9, 1959)
American architect, interior designer, writer and educator
Designed more than 1,000 structures and completed 532 works
Wright believed in designing structures which were in harmony with humanity and
its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture.
This philosophy was best exemplified by his design for Fallingwater (1935)
This has been called "the best all-time work of American architecture
Wright was a leader of the Prairie School movement of architecture and developed
the concept of the Usonian home, his unique vision for urban planning in the
United States.
His work includes original and innovative examples of many different building types
Offices, churches, schools, skyscrapers, hotels, and museums.
Wright also designed many of the interior elements of his buildings
Such as the furniture and stained glass.
Wright authored 20 books and many articles and was a popular lecturer in the
United States and in Europe. His colorful personal life often made headlines, most
notably for the 1914 fire and murders at his Taliesin studio. Already well known
during his lifetime, Wright was recognized in 1991 by the American Institute of
Architects as "the greatest American architect of all time."

Fallingwater,
Mill Run, Pennsylvania
(1937)

Frank Lloyd Wright was both an architect and a writer. Here are a few of his most famous quotations.
"So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal..."
In An Organic Architecture, 1939
"'Think simples' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles."
In Barnes & Noble Book of Quotations, by Robert I. Fitzhenry, 1987.
"All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable."
The Living City, pt. 3, "Recapitulation" (1958).
"An idea is salvation by imagination."
In The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection, AApex Software, 1994
"Clear out 800,000 people and preserve it as a museum piece."
On Boston; in NY Times, 27 Nov 55
"Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change."
In The World's Best Thoughts on Life & Living, compiled by Eugene Raudsepp, 1981.
"Get the habit of analysis- analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind."
In Barnes & Noble Book of Quotations, by Robert I. Fitzhenry, 1987.
"I feel coming on a strange disease -- humility."
In Correct Quotes for DOS, WordStar International, 1991.
"I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist's hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at
expense to art and true religion."
The Living City, pt. 5, "Night Is but a Shadow Cast by the Sun" (1958).
"I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up."
In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library, 1997.
"If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger."
In Correct Quotes for DOS, WordStar International, 1991.
"No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life
when the buildings were built."
In Correct Quotes for DOS, WordStar International, 1991.
"TV is chewing gum for the eyes."
In Quote Disk 1,2,3, by DBUG, 1991.
"The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will
remain with you all the days of your life."
In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library, 1997.
"The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines."
New York Times Magazine (4 Oct. 1953).
"The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope."
Closing words of The Living City, pt. 5, "Night is but a Shadow Cast by the Sun" (1958).
"The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of the world and remember, it will be a poet, not a
scientist."
In Simpson's Contemporary Quotations, by James B. Simpson, 1988.
"The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved
ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy."
The Living City, pt. 1, "Earth" (1958).
"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen."
In My Favourite Quotations, by Norman Vincent Peale, 1990.
"The truth is more important than the facts."
In The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection, AApex Software, 1994.
"Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances."
In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library, 1997.

There are plans to build a 3280-foot skyscraper in Saudi

Arabia. It will be the tallest structure in the world, 500 feet
higher than anything else.
But on this date in 1956, Frank Lloyd Wright announced
plans for an even grander Chicago structure. His building
would top off at 5280 feet--a mile high.

Wright was 89 years old, the dean of American architects. He'd never liked skyscrapers or what they represented. Now he'd changed his
mind. "If we're going to have centralization, why not quit fooling around and have it," he said.
Wright insisted the mile-high building was no joke; it was "thoroughly scientific." He said that several prominent Chicagoans were already
interested in the project. He had even picked out a lakefront site near the Adler Planetarium.
Most of the tower's 500-plus floors would be office space for city, county, and state government. Wright said that 100,000 people might be
accommodated. The top nine floors would be TV studios, topped off by a 330-foot antenna used for coast-to-coast broadcasts.
Of course, the building would cost a bundle. But the total floor area was over 18 million square feet. On that basis, the price tag would be
cheap. "I believe the cost would be the lowest per square foot of any modern building in the world," Wright said.
Six weeks later, the architect was in Chicago to push the project. By now the mile-high building was kinown as The Illinois. Chicago's moversand-shakers were excited that the city might become home to "the eighth Wonder of the World." Mayor Richard J. Daley officially
proclaimed October 17 as Frank Lloyd Wright Day.
Now Wright displayed a 22-foot-tall sketch of his skyscraper and outlined some details. The structure was to be steel and glass, with 528
floors extending out from a central core--"like branches on a tree trunk." Utility pipes and wiring were in the core. The foundation was
wedge-shaped, sunk 150 feet into the ground.
Wright stayed in Chicago three days. There was a Wright exhibit at the Hotel Sherman, and a testimonial dinner, and a public lecture at
Orchestra Hall. Some critics scoffed at the grandiose plan, while others were ready to haul out the shovels and start digging that foundation.
Then Wright left town, and took his charisma with him. Two years later he was dead. The Illinois never advanced beyond the talking stage.
And yet . . .
Back in 1938, Wright had designed a convention center for Madison, Wis. The proposal was rejected and languished for decades. But go to
Madison today and you'll see the architect's Monona Terrace, finally opened in 1997.
Is it time to resurrect The Illinois?

1. Frank Lloyd Wrights Mile-High

tower, 1,609 meters (facsimile
shown). Never built.
2. Burj Khalifa, Dubai, 828 m,
became the worlds tallest in
2009.
3. Shanghai World Financial
Center, Shanghai China, 2008,
492 m. Currently the worlds 3rd
tallest.
4. Russian Tower, Moscow, 612
m. Proposed.
5. Taipei 101, Taipei, Taiwan, 448
m, 2004. Currently the worlds
2nd tallest.
6. Washington Monument, 169 m,
1885.
7. Pearl River Tower, Guangzhou,
China, 310 m, 2010 completion.
Probably the only tall building
ever designed that is nearly
energy self-sufficient.
8. Petrona Towers, Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia, 452 m,1998.
9. Freedom Tower, 541 m,
completion date pending. Set to
become tallest in the US.
10. Empire State Building, 381 m,
completed 1931. Held worlds
tallest record until 1971.
11. Chicago Spire, Chicago, 610
m, proposed.
12. Nakheel Tower (formerly
called Al Burj), proposed
completion 2020, 1000 m