The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright

Name: The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright
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Wright for friends of Architecture and Design

Created byFederico von Borstel

Last updated 8/2021

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What you'll learn

Understand and appreciate the design of Frank Lloyd Wright
The course promotes self-learning.
The course enhances human development.
The course seeks to enrich your life experience.

Course content

1 section • 16 lectures • 2h 18m total length

Introduction7:10
Explore the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, from prairie style and Mayan revival to iconic works like the Guggenheim and Robie House, in a guided course tour.
The Arts and Crafts International Design Movement. The Red House9:03
Explore the arts and crafts movement as a response to industrialization, preserving human dignity through brick, carpentry, glass, and tile craftsmanship, exemplified by the Red House.
The Prairie School. The Purcell-Cutts House, Minneapolis14:31
Explore how the Purcell-Cutts house embodies the Prairie School with horizontal lines, a low pitched roof, a strong vertical chimney, and banded windows, rooted in the Arts and Crafts movement.
Oak Park, Illinois and The Bootleg Houses8:12
Explore Oak Park's rich collection of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings, including his studio and home, bootleg houses, and early works, using Google Earth and floorplan reading to uncover architectural ideas.
Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio, Oak Park, Illinois3:55
Explore Frank Lloyd Wright's Oak Park home and studio, tracing the reception, drafting room, and octagonal library that express compressed and expanded spaces, with arts and crafts interiors.
The Prairie Style and The Heurtley House, Oak Park, Illinois16:04
Frank Lloyd Wright’s prairie style Hurley House in Oak Park (1902), noting horizontal roof lines, a band of windows, a loggia terrace, and a defensive parapet rooted in masonry.
The Robie House, 5757 South Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, IL7:32
Explore Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House in Chicago, showcasing horizontal planes, white limestone and brickwork, and ribbons of windows that cascade along its massing.
Usonian style houses. The Malcolm and Nancy Willey house and The Frieda and Henr6:53
Explore the Malcomb and Nancy Willey house, a Usonian prairie-style home by Frank Lloyd Wright, featuring an L-shaped plan, wide eaves, passive solar cooling, and seamless interior-exterior flow.
Mayan Revival architecture and the Hollyhock House (Aline Barnsdall Residence) i8:39
Explore Frank Lloyd Wright’s hollyhock house, a Mayan revival residence inspired by Palenque temples and the hollyhock motif. The design fuses courtyard spaces with Egyptian temple cues and craftsman details.
Fallingwater, Pennsylvania10:52
Explore Fallingwater, a 1935 landmark by Frank Lloyd Wright, where cantilevered terraces balance vertical stone anchors with horizontal planes, integrating rock, water, and surrounding trees into a unified living environment.
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York4:31
Explore Frank Lloyd Wright's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, a cylindrical spiral with an acrylic dome, elevator to the top, and light-filled ramp guiding visitors from top to bottom.
Johnson Wax Headquarters, Racine, Wisconsin19:15
Explore the Johnson Waks headquarters in Racine Wisconsin, a Frank Lloyd Wright design with two sections, no street windows, lily-pad columns, curtain walls, a central core, and a pagoda-inspired tower.
Lindholm Oil Company Service Station2:05
Explore Wright's 1956 Lindholm oil company service station, his only gas station design, featuring a projecting canopy, Wright steps to a second floor, and New Urbanism in Broadacre City ideals.
Anderton Court Shops in Beverly Hills1:47
Frank Lloyd Wright designs the Anderton Court Shops as a moving composition of planes, horizontals, and verticals, featuring an atrium with a spire and a welcoming entrance in Beverly Hills.
Taliesin West, Scottsdale, Arizona12:24
Explore Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Arizona, where Frank Lloyd Wright spurred an evolving apprenticeship and architecture school, showcasing dry-mortar masonry, rockwork, and craftsmanship grounded in the arts and crafts tradition.
Course Catalog5:32
Explore the course catalog within The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, noting brief references and a closing note of thanks.

Requirements

The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright for students and lovers of Architecture and Design

Description

This course follows the influences on and the sources of the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright and explores the design and construction insights of his major works. We examine works from the different stages of his design career to provide a comprehensive look at his amazing buildings. The course encourages students to participate by using Google Earth as a study and research tool. I teach lecture courses and studios as I wish they would have been taught to me. Much of the graphic material in my lectures is taken or generated first hand directly by me on site. I teach to learn. I teach subjects as I wish they were taught to me. The Mission Statement. Education is a tool for the improvement of successive generations. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Confucius

This course is designed under the premise that humans should be taught in a way that is modeled after the educational patterns of evolution.

The design, development and application of educational systems based on the educational principles of evolution generates a philosophy and methodology of education in synchrony with the evolutionary education system that is firmly and deeply rooted in each of us.

Education for evolution is an educational system designed to help propel humans forward in the natural course of evolution. The purpose of education for evolution is to enhance and strengthen the natural evolutionary process of humans through the mechanism of education. The means to achieve this objective is the design of a curricula based on the same educational techniques and strategies used by natural evolution, enhanced and guided by the application of conscious educational decisions.

Who this course is for:

Anyone who enjoys architecture, art and design