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Organic architecture is a philosophy of architecture which promotes harmony between human habitation and the natural world. This is achieved through design approaches that aim to be sympathetic and well-integrated with a site, so buildings, furnishings, and surroundings become part of a unified, interrelated composition.
The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright is a UNESCO World Heritage Site consisting of eight buildings across the United States designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. [1] [2] These sites demonstrate his philosophy of organic architecture, designing structures that were in harmony with humanity and its environment. Wright ...
An Organic Architecture: The Architecture of Democracy (1939) In the Cause of Architecture: Essays by Frank Lloyd Wright for Architectural Record 1908–1952 (1987) Visions of Wright: Photographs by Farrell Grehan, Introduction by Terence RileyISBN 0-8212-2470-0 (1997)
Bruce Alonzo Goff (June 8, 1904 – August 4, 1982) was an American architect, distinguished by his organic, eclectic, and often flamboyant designs for houses and other buildings in Oklahoma and elsewhere.
Bruce Goff buildings (15 P) Pages in category "Organic architecture" The following 53 pages are in this category, out of 53 total.
Fallingwater has been described as an example of Wright's organic architecture. [279] [280] Though the house is also sometimes described as a Modern–styled building, The Wall Street Journal wrote that the design was "a kind of streamlined, handmade, organic architecture" not emulated by other architects. [279]
Taliesin West is located at 12621 North Frank Lloyd Wright Boulevard in Scottsdale, Arizona, United States; [5] [6] the main entrance is at 12345 North Taliesin Drive. [6] [7] The estate sits about 1,600 feet (490 m) above sea level, in a gully at the base of the McDowell Mountains in Maricopa County. [8]
Blobitecture (from blob architecture), blobism and blobismus are terms for a movement in architecture in which buildings have an organic, amoeba-shaped building form. [1] Though the term blob architecture was already in vogue in the mid-1990s, the word blobitecture first appeared in print in 2002, in William Safire 's "On Language" column in ...