THE SADLY: ARCHITECT: FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
This week, as T-COD Architecture, we would like to talk about the architectural approach and works of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, who preferred to use materials in accordance with their forms rather than shaping them and exhibited nature and structure in harmony.
WHO IS FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT?
Born in Wisconsin in 1867, he is the eldest of the three children of American architect, priest and music teacher William Russell Cary Wright and teacher Anna Lloyd Wright. Wright, who dropped out of high school due to his family's financial difficulties, started working part-time with designer and engineer Allon Conover, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of wisconsin. On the other hand, he took technical drawing and mathematics courses as a private student at the same faculty. One of Frank Lloyd Wringht's strihing characteristics is that he is ''sarcastic''. In other words, he did not receive a real university education on architecture. The architect, who left home in 1887 and went to Chicago to works as a draftsman, worked for the famous architect Joseph Lyman Silsbee for a few months. During this process, he learned information about residential architecture. Wright, who worked as an assistant architect in the Adler-Sullivan office, began working under Louis Sullivan, th most famous architect of the Chicago School. He worked at the Adler-Sullivan office until 1893, managing the Planning and Design department. Since Adler and Sullivan did not want to build detached houses, they asked Wright to handle these designs. Wright, who stands out with his success in home designs, left Adler-Sullivan in 1893 when it became clear that he should outsource his work and established his own office in Oak Park.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT'S UNDERSTANDING OF ARCHITECTURE
Frank Lloyd Wright, whose architectural approach was based on simplicity, challenged the ornate, embroidered and detailed architectural approach. Taking advantage of the magnificence of simplicity, Wright made geometric facades a part of nature in his buildings. In order to respect nature and act in harmony with it in his architectural works, he is against completely organizing the place where the building will be located. According to Wright, the building should be made a part of the place where it will be built. Waterfall House, one of Wright's works that reveals the principles of organic architecture, is one of the iconic buildings of organicarchitecture. This house for the Kaufmann Family was built with materials obtained from the land and in perfect harmony with nature.
WORKS OF FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
Among Frank Lloyd Wright's most important projects;
The common feature of all these structures is that they are designed to be in harmony with nature.
