Organic & Beyond

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)

Most influential architect of the 20th Century

Creates principle of ORGANIC ARCHITECTURE

Architecture is a natural consequence of its environment

Form follows function, landscape and materials

Technical innovator

Influenced by the Prairie, Japanese philosophy, and 20th Century needs

Frank Lloyd Wright

“Falling Water”

THE Organic Structure

Built INTO rocky hillside / OVER waterfall

Rock construction + cantilevers

Frank Lloyd Wright

Art Glass & Furnishings

Frank Lloyd Wright

Art Glass & Furnishings

Frank Lloyd Wright

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum - New York (1956)

Antithesis of International Style

Cylyder rises in expanding circles

Climaxes in skylight dome

Organic Architecture

Eero Saarinen (1910-1961)

Gateway Arch – St. Louis

Terminal – Dulles Airport

Terminal – JFK Airport

Sydney Opera House

Joern Utzon (1918-2008)

Post-Modernism in Architecture (State of the Art)

Urban Renewal

City Character more important t than National Character

Gaudi

Sagrada Familia

(1891-1926-PRESENT)

I.M. PeiGlass Pyramid at the Louvre(1989)

The Museum of Islamic Art at Doha, Qatar

Cesar Pelli Petronas Tower, Kuala Lumpur (1996) WORLD’S TALLEST BUILDING

Frank GehryGuggenheim Museum at Bilbao

(1997)