1.  Things to Get: › Note sheet from front table  Things to Do: › Opener: Frank Lloyd Wright › Class work: Lecture- Modern architecture and Wright › Closure: What would you put here?

2.  1) The most famous architect of the twentieth century is Frank Lloyd Wright. What did he invent?  2) Why did Wright’s mother give her son maple blocks?  3) Describe the Robie house. Include a description of the interior and exterior of this building.  4) Complete this sentence: ___________ became a sculptural element that could be ______________ ____________________________________.  5) How did Prairie houses reflect the prairie?  6) How did Wright create rooms in homes that were room-less?  7) What was Wright’s masterpiece?  8) Why is Fallingwater an example of organic architecture?  9) The Johnson Wax Administration Building is an ideal workspace where _______________________________. The interior of the Johnson Wax Building is all _____________________.  10) What did Wright call the skyscraper?

3.  1) the open plan  2) “So he could learn the basic geometric shapes underlying natural and man-made structures”  3) long and low roof lines, central stone hearth and chimney in the center, interior space flows from room to room without walls or doors, cantilevered roofs  4) “Space became a sculptural element that could be energized, interlocking horizontal and vertical voids.”  5) low slung roofs, deep eaves, and horizontal massing  6) phantom partitions through furnishings and level changes  7) Fallingwater  8) Several possibilities: 1) It’s over the waterfall 2) A boulder serves as the center of the living room 3) The buff color “echoes” the rock  9) “space is allotted according to egalitarian principles; all curves  10) “the tree that escaped the forest”

5.  a rejection of historical styles  Utilitarian - materials and function determine result  rejection of ornamentation/decoration  simplification of form – no unnecessary detail  form follows function

6.  1867–1959  American architect, interior designer, writer, educator, and philosopher  Oak Park, Illinois  Designed +1,000 projects, 500 were completed  Famous works: › Robie House › Rosenbaum House › Falling Water House

7.  “Modern architecture is the idea of eliminating the containment which is the box, reaching out and amplifying space, dragging things in from the outside”

8.  Usonian Homes › small, single story dwellings › no garage or storage › L-shaped to fit on odd/cheap lots › environmentally conscious › native materials › flat roofs › cantilevered overhangs for solar heating and natural cooling › natural lighting › radiant floor heating › Example: Rosenbaum House

9.  1938  Florence, Alabama  Usonian style  single-family house  based on the 1936 Usonian prototype  built on a two acre plot in an L-shape  made from natural materials, cypress wood, brick, and glass  multilevel low-rising steel-cantilevered roofs  rooms have their own door to the outside  center of the house is the "service core“ What economic occurrence influenced this type of design?

11.  Organic architecture › promotes harmony between human habitation and the natural world › Structure is well integrated with its site and natural surroundings › furnishings, interior and exterior reflect each other to create a unified and interrelated composition › Example: Falling Water House

12.  1935  rural southwestern Pennsylvania, 50 miles southeast of Pittsburgh  organic style  built partly over a waterfall  Seen as Wright‘s most accomplished design  integration with natural surroundings  fireplace hearth is composed of boulders found on the site and upon which the house was built  one set of boulders which was left in place protrudes slightly through the living room floor  stone floors are waxed, while the hearth is left plain, giving the impression of dry rocks protruding from a stream  where glass meets stone walls, there is no metal frame; rather, the glass is caulked directly to the stone  Bedrooms are small, low ceilings, encourage people outward toward the open social areas, decks, and outdoors  active stream can be heard constantly throughout the house  balconies are off main rooms giving a sense of the closeness of the surroundings Does Bryan Station High School follow this type of design? Why or why not?

23.  David Pearson’s rules for organic architecture  Let the design: › be inspired by nature and be sustainable, healthy, conserving, and diverse. › unfold, like an organism, from the seed within. › exist in the "continuous present" and "begin again and again". › follow the flows and be flexible and adaptable. › satisfy social, physical, and spiritual needs. › "grow out of the site" and be unique. › celebrate the spirit of youth, play and surprise. › express the rhythm of music and the power of dance.

24.  Prairie Style › horizontal lines › flat or hipped roofs with broad overhanging eaves › windows grouped in horizontal bands › integration with the landscape › solid construction › Ornamentation through repetition › horizontal lines related to the native prairie landscape › Example: Robie House

25.  1908-1909  Chicago, Illinois  Prairie Style  the buildings and their various components (e.g. doors, windows, furniture, tapestries, etc.) owed their design influence to the landscape and plant life of the prairie of the United States.  low-proportioned, horizontal profile which gives it the appearance of spreading out on the flat prairie land  A chimney mass containing the house's four fireplaces rises through the center of the house acting as the anchor to which the house is designed around on all three levels  structural steel framing creates interior spaces that are absent of posts, walls, and obstructions  open flowing interiors symbolizes the openness of the American prairie Why do horizontal lines best reflect the prairie?

41.  Create your design for the Rosenberg Property › Things to keep in mind:  Function, Location, Materials, Environment, Surrounding Buildings  Requirements of Your Illustration › Your illustration must fill an entire sheet of computer. › Your building design must fill 75% of the paper; you must show the surrounding buildings in order to illustrate how your building has appropriate scale/proportion. › Your illustration must use color. › You have the rest of class to complete this desing.  Questions to Answer On the Back of the Sheet: › How will it be used AFTER the World Equestrian Games? › What is the best solution for those businesses that will be closed down when construction begins?