1. Opening Agenda Things to Get:  Notebook paper  Annotated Arch Book (White) Things to Do:  Opener: Frank Lloyd Wright  Class work: Lecture- Modern architecture and Wright  Closure: Application of Wright

2. Opener - The Annotated Arch, pg. 126-129. Answer the following question. 10 minutes! 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. Answers 1) the open plan 2) “So he could learn the basic geometric shapes underlying natural and man-made structures” 3) long /low roof lines, central stone fire place 4) “Space became a sculptural element that could be shaped” 5) low slung roofs, deep eaves, and horizontal massing 6) partitions of furnishings / level changes 7) Fallingwater 8) 1) It’s over the waterfall 9) “space…egalitarian principles; all curves 10) “the tree that escaped the forest”

4. NOTES TITLE Modern Architecture

6. Modern Architecture Characteristics a rejection of historical styles materials and functional requirements determine the result Utilitarian design rejection of ornamentation/decoration simplification of form/elimination of "unnecessary detail" form follows function

7. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867–1959 American architect, interior designer, writer, educator, and philosopher Oak Park, Illinois Designed +1,000 projects  500 were completed works Famous works:  Robie House  Rosenbaum House  Falling Water House Objective: To create a distinctive form of American Architecture Innovations: Open floor plan in homes organic architecture Designed homes to patrons needs

8. Guggenheim Museum http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icErgB_ZmFM

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

10. Styles Usonian Organic Prairie

11. Styles Usonian Homes  small, single story dwellings offered as a low-cost home for middle income families  no garage nor storage; no attics nor basements  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

12. Rosenbaum House 1938 Florence, Alabama built for newlyweds Stanley and Mildred Rosenbaum 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“ Question: What economic occurrence influenced this type of design?

16. Styles 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

17. Falling Water 1935 rural southwestern Pennsylvania, 50 miles southeast of Pittsburgh organic style built partly over a waterfall 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 Question: Does Bryan Station High School follow this type of design?

28. This is a video; watch it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSbjVgpXDoA

29. Styles 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

30. Robie House 1908-1909 built for Frederick C. Robie This home began the modernist era in building design 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 Question: Why do horizontal lines best reflect the prairie?

36. Application Activity In the following slides determine which style of house would be suitable for the given location.

41. Application Activity Objective: Create a billboard advertisement for Frank Lloyd Wright to encourage people to hire him to be their architect! Requirements:  A hook to let the audience know what the billboard is about  Images that illustrate/show the different styles of architecture that the patron can request  An image of each of the styles must be present!  Answer the following question: How did each of these structures influence modern and post-modern architecture? A summarizing statement at the bottom of the billboard that really convinces the patron to hire Wright!

42. 20 minutes 2 impt. facts/visual example/why created/impact on modern arch

43. Exit Slip 1) Who was Frank Lloyd Wright? 2) Which of the following BEST describes a usonian home?  a. small, single story dwellings, L-shaped to fit on odd/cheap lots.  b. promotes harmony between human habitation and the natural world  c. ornamentation through repetition, windows grouped in horizontal bands  d. highly ornamented, symmetrically balanced, expensive 3) Which of the following BEST describes a prairie home?  a. small, single story dwellings, L-shaped to fit on odd/cheap lots  b. promotes harmony between human habitation and the natural world  c. horizontal lines, ornamentation through repetition  d. highly ornamented, symmetrically balanced 4) Which of the following BEST describes an organic home?  a. small, single story dwellings, L-shaped to fit on odd/cheap lots,  b. promotes harmony between human habitation and the natural world  c. horizontal lines, ornamentation through repetition  d. highly ornamented, symmetrically balanced 5) Give an example of an usonian home. 6) Give an example of a home designed in the prairie style. 7) Give an example of an organic home.

44. FLW influence in Lexington!