Frank Lloyd Wright, the man who built America. The architect Jonathan Adams dove deep into the architectural significance behind Lloyd’s structures and the familiar impact his life had on his creations. Throughout his life, Lloyd created over 500 buildings and is wildly known for pushing boundaries and empowering organic architecture. Over the span of those seven decades, he created new styles and concepts, and faced personal challenges that he chose to overcome. Could those personal situations have impacted and inspired his view on architecture and the layouts of his structures?
Lloyd’s family left their home and country, and moved to America to gain more freedom. When Lloyd created his own house, he was inspired by free thinking humanitarians, and he made it in an open-plan concept with a free flow that had a sense of honesty and equality. The open plan concept was relatively new and rare. One could believe Lloyd was motivated to create to symbolize that freedom his family gained when they moved. He got married and had kids, and later, went on to create the Unity Temple that was unique and intimate. However, he cheated on his wife and ran away with his mistress, only to come back the next year and create a new house in the only place he felt safe, where he grew up. This house and area represented community, safety, and it was a building were architecture and nature could coexist. Unfortunately, his home was burnt down and his new family killed, so one could see that in his next house he designed, the house was more of a weaving project in which inside the place was mysterious and cave like, with a lot of uncertainty ahead.
Years later, people seemed to think that Lloyd was talent that faded away. Lloyd was broke and at a low point, but that did not stop him, he got younger people who were interested in applying architecture to help and fund his projects. He then got a job where he created the Falling Water, which was completely surrounded by nature that meant security, contemplation, and most importantly, it was the clearest expression of organic design. That building relit his career and he went on to build artificially uplifting, open, simplistic, almost cathedral like “glade of trees” that had a sense of the outdoors. The Guggenheim museum is one of his most recognized buildings that created a free flow of space that had one room and only one way to go. That was his last piece of architecture he left the world before parting away.
Both his life and nature itself had a major impact on his inspiration and the feeling of his architectural concepts. By being ahead, he had to prove the validity of his designs, and all were a success, making him a key figure in the creation of America. His life, although filled with trouble, helped him become the architect he is known for today and all he represents. And nature impacted his buildings in such a way that his Falling Water House is one of the most perfectly organic structures ever to be created throughout the decades. His buildings are probably so amazing because they are not only structures, they are a representation of feelings, concepts and different states of mind that developed throughout his life, while still maintain the one true concept of nature constant in every structure.
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