Pick 1 architect that you are most influence by in terms of design thought. Show examples of his design thought through his projects. Show your own design project to give evidence of the influence.
WE SPEND OUR lives inside buildings, our thoughts shaped by their walls. Nevertheless, there’s surprisingly little research on the psychological implications of architecture. How do different spaces influence cognition? Is there an ideal kind of architectural structure for different kinds of thinking? At the moment, I think I’ve only beginning to grasp the relevant variables of design. Then I started to get know with this famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright. In my opinion, I think Frank Lloyd Wright is the one that I am most affected by design thought.
Frank Lloyd Wright was a modern architect who developed an organic and distinctly American style. He designed numerous iconic buildings. Frank Lloyd Wright was born on June 8, 1867, in Richland Center, Wisconsin. He is widely known for four styles of building. He conceived of the Prairie Style which was born out of his belief that we needed fewer, larger rooms which flowed more easily, his antithesis to the rigid Victorian era architecture. From there the Textile Style was born, which led way to the Organic Style and then the Usonian Style. His belief that buildings should be made from the land and benefit the land inspired most of his work. This are some of his inspirational that change the way of my design in semester 3.
(i) “There should be as many (styles) of houses as there are kinds (styles) of people and as many differentiations as there are different individuals. A man who has individuality has a right to its expression and his own environment.”
The works of Frank Lloyd Wright have a uniquely individual style. Of his varied styles, no two homes or buildings look alike.
(ii)“A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.”
It should be noticed that the buildings the architect built in the Middle Western part of the United States are vastly different in nature, style and material than the buildings he designed in Arizona, Los Angeles and Pennsylvania. Each style is as unique as the make-up of the land is different.
(iii) “No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.”
Nowhere is this more apparent than in his Organic Architecture. Perhaps this is most especially true of the home Fallingwater, where house and land truly have merged to become one.
(iv) “The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.”
Wright stood for clean lines and simplicity. He believed that a well-built building complemented it’s environment and surrounding. He disliked the intricate detail and fussiness of the architectural styles that preceded him.
With the list above, in my design studio 3 I manage to design a mediatheque which is actually hard for me to think of its form. This is because my site is at spice garden and my design idea is to get away from the city and surround ourselves with calm- including shrines amid a canopy of trees in the heart of the city. Rolling hills, flowering trees take us back to basics in a beautiful way. Then I start to apply Wright’s concept into my design. My mediatheque is shaped to harmonize with its surrounding as nature is manifest there and make it part of the spice garden. The lattice screen modify leaves vein. It is transparent with the intentions of designing a transparent cultural to allow complete visibility to the surrounding (close to nature). The butterfly roof represents the leaves as leaves fall of trees in layer form by natural wind. The midiatheque is coped with nature and it is following the contour to preserve the landscape existed. Actually his concept helped a lot in my design with the assist of nature. I will try to explore more on his concept and idea and apply it to my next design. In my opinion, the idea of “merged into the environment” is widely used as it brought to the nature in today’s architecture and the exterior of the building.
