FRANK L. WRIGHT, EXCERPTS FROM AN AMERICAN
ARCHITECTURE.
CONTINUITY
The classic architecture was all fixation-of-the-fixture. Yes, entirely so. Now, why not let walls,
ceilings, floors become seen as component parts of each other, their surfaces flowing into
each other. . . .
Continuity in this aesthetic sense appeared to me as the natural means to achieve
truly organic architecture by machine technique or by any other natural technique. Here
were direct means, the only means I could then see or can now see to express, objectify
and again bring the natural form to architecture.
From this article, I have learned that we should explore new construction methods. It brings me out of the box of post and beam construction. No column, no pilaster, no wall, no ceiling... All should be one. It called continuity. It merging the wall into ceiling, merging the building element and structural element as one. It was like truly organic form in a mechanical or natural way. It is obvious to see in some folded plane architecture.
Frank Wright provides the target readers with information about his promotion of ORGANIC ARCHITECTURE. Also, he wants to make more understandable the slogan ‘ FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION ‘ . He thinks that walls, ceilings, floors of buildings should not separate from each other. In other word, he regards all of the components as a whole in buildings.
Wright emphasizes the word ‘ CONTINUITY ‘many times in his article. The reason why he repeats the same word ‘ CONTINUITY ‘ in reading is that his ideas about ORGANIC ARCHITECTURE are completely based on the meaning of continuity. According to him, all of the components of a building such as walls, floors, etc. should be appropriate in terms of integrity and also those components should merge. Every part of a building should flow into each other.
In addition, he refers to a relation between outside and inside. In terms of this relation, form, and function become one design, entirely a whole together. In the last decades, form and function were considered things following each other. However, Frank Wright mentions that they ( form and function ) emerge together and he applies this idea to his buildings such as Fallingwater House in Pennsylvania, Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, Millard House ( also known as La Miniatura ) in California, etc.
Finally, Frank Lloyd Wright initiated to new perception called ‘ ORGANIC ARCHITECTURE ‘ and he really accomplished via his buildings.
SAMI MOHAMMED
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