Class 2: Arts and Crafts in England and the United States and the Early Career of Frank
Lloyd Wright
Vocabulary:
Organic architecture
Prairie Style
Cantilever
In Scotland, Charles Renee Mackintosh fuses Arts and Crafts ideas, Art Nouveau
aesthetics, and traditional Celtic forms.
In the United States, architects fuse English Arts and Crafts theory with American
vernacular traditions and a growing admiration of Japanese craftsmanship
2. Philip Webb and William Morris. Red House. London, England. 1859.
6. Shaker Furniture.
a. Dining Table. Hancock, Massachusetts. 1800-1825.
b. Side Chair. New Lebanon, New York. 1840-1860.
9. Charles Sumner Greene and Henry Mather Greene. Dining Room Side Table,
Gamble House. 1909.
Key Themes:
Frank Lloyd Wright’s career emerges from a number of influences, including the
arts and crafts movement, his mentor Louis Sullivan, and Japanese architecture.
In the first decade of the 20th century, Frank Lloyd Wright rethinks the family
home in the Chicago suburbs as he develops the Prairie Style, anchors his
buildings to the landscape, and argues for the “destruction of the box.”
Wright synthesizes arts and crafts ideals with a respect for the power of the
machine, as he seeks to apply the concept of “truth to materials” to industrial
materials like concrete.
17. Frank Lloyd Wright. Winslow House. River Forest, Illinois. 1893-1894.
18. Frank Lloyd Wright. Ward Willits House. Highland Park, Illinois. 1901.
20. Frank Lloyd Wright. Larkin Building. Buffalo, New York. 1902-1906.
Very simplify
21. Frank Lloyd Wright. Unity Temple. Oak Park, Illinois. 1905-1908.
Characters of this building. Scale are look like same. Material is concrete
22. Frank Lloyd Wright. Hollyhock House. Los Angeles, California. 1919-1921.
Landscape
23. Frank Lloyd Wright. Alice Millard House (La Miniatura). Pasadena,
California. 1923.
Concrete,
24. Frank Lloyd Wright. Tokyo Imperial Hotel. Tokyo, Japan. 1915-1923.
Layout and window are similar