FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

• Wright’s career started as a draftsman under joseph Lyman Silsbee.

• he Feeling that he was underpaid he quit and found work as a designer at the firm of Beers, Clay, and Dutton.

• Wright soon realized that he was not ready to handle building design by himself; he left his new job to return to Joseph Silsbee.

• After less than a year had passed in Silsbee's office wright worked as a draftsman for louis sullivan,.

Beginning of architectural career

WRIGHT AND SULLIVAN Wright then borrowed a sum of 5000 $ from louis

Sullivan promised to work for him for five long years.

constructed his first home in which he boldly started displaying his conception of architecture and in return

To overcome the money crisis and supplement his income he started working independently designing the bootleg houses along with working in the firm.

As louis Sullivan got to know of independent works of the wright he was fired.

Bootleg houses by FL Wright Oak park house

FL Wright drafting

WRIGHTS DESIGN

PHILOSOPHIES

Wright always emphasised that Structure should not be just built on the site but should belong to the site.”“The good building is not the one that hurts the landscape but the one which makes landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built”

-F L Wright

TALIESIN WEST, SCOTTSDALESTYLE: ORGANIC

GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM,NEW YORKSTYLE: MODERN

MOVEMENT

Use of materials in their natural state.

TALIESIN, SPRING GREEN

The basic building material for its construction was limestone.

It was stacked in such a way that it resembles the natural occurrence of the limestone in stratifications.

He did so because he intended to create a structure which is indigenous to the landscape

TALIESEN WEST, SCOTSDALE

in its design the architect used locally available rocks to make the building truthful to the landscape surrounding it.

And the stone masonry he used popularly came to be known as desert masonry.

BRINGING THE ROOFLINE OF THE STRUCTURE DOWN TO HORIZONTAL LINE

One of the most important characteristic of the prairie style of architecture which he developed was transition of roofs from steep slopes to very gentle ones.

Oak park house Moore house Winslow house

Robbie house Moore house

REVELATION OF LARGER SPACES THROUGH SMALLER SPACES Revelation of larger spaces of the house through

smaller spaces was yet another characteristic of the prairie style housing.

Ex: the entry to the play room in the oak park house was through narrow vaulted passage.

He used vaults excessively because he felt that atics were useless space.

The first step in his design was the development of the plan of the house which had a plenty of open spaces separated from one another by simple architectural devices instead of partitions, walls or doors. This was called the open plan.

SOME OF THE OTHER TYPICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE HOUSES WHICH HE DESIGNED WERE:

FREE FLOWING SPACES IN THE INTERIOR

OPEN PLAN

1. Broad, overhanging roofs.

2. And horizontal window bands.

Falling waters interiors

Taliesin interiors

Robbie house interiors

WRIGHT’S DESIGNS TALIESIN WEST

SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, MANHATTAN

SCOTSDALE,ARIZONA

TALIESIN WEST In this design wright wanted to bring the

outside in. He emphasised on discarding the

unnecessary visual obstructions to the exteriors.

The building incorporates into itself an innovative concept of desert masonry in which the flat faces of the native rocks face the surroundings and the gaps are filled by mortar.

The result was a brilliant desert mosaic which became the part of the Arizona desert and enriched the desert landscape.

Colour and the texture of the desert surrounded the building.

His vision of providing a free flow in the interiors was elaborately displayed in the design.

R GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM Like all his other designs this

masterpiece of wright was the one respecting the landscape of the region.

Centred in the space is a huge atrium, rising 92' in height to an expansive glass dome.

Along the sides of this atrium is a continuous ramp uncoiling upwards for six storeys.

Wright came up with 749 sketches and six sets of working drawings before he could finally like the design.

This building not only stands as a brilliant sculpture but also enhances the beauty of its landscape.