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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.
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 Riley ISBN 0-8212-2470-0 (1997)
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 ...
Freed is a practitioner in the tradition of organic architecture, first developed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The Founding Chair of Architecture for The San Francisco Design Museum, he was voted "Best Green Architect" by San Francisco Magazine in 2005. [5]
Javier Senosiain: Organic Architecture is a book by Javier Senosiain and Fernando Haro, published in 2008. Senosiain explores in his book a trajectory in the history of architecture, from Frank Lloyd Wright and Bruno Zevi to Alvar Aalto and Eero Saarinen .
Our guide to Art Nouveau architecture explores the late 19th-century movement known for flowing lines and organic forms and how it influenced the culture.
In 2001, an Associated Press writer described the complex as imitating the desert environment, [318] while the Los Angeles Daily News wrote that Taliesin West was a monument to Wright and to organic architecture. [246] As a Calgary Herald reporter described it, the desert "simply flows into the walls, in the rocks and the sand" of the house. [252]
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]