ICSM 10500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Frank Lloyd Wright, Arthur Heurtley House, Dana Thomas
16 Sep 2016
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Prairie houses- emphasis on horizontal lines, open floor plan (this was new back then), low-pitched roof, clerestory windows, William winslow house is wright"s first client with formal design but less ornament, used bright color on the bottom, formal shapes symmetry, brick, wood. Frank thomas house has stained glass windows gray coloring asymmetrical uses concrete for this house. Arthur heurtley house uses brick and stone and slate, earth tones archways in every house. Dana thomas house symmetrical bricks pointing to the archway door. Frederick robie house has more dimensions large overhang, Frank also designed the furniture in the house arts and craft style. Arts and craft style was a protest to mass production of cheap furniture. produced by craftspeople. He is best known for architecture and stained glass. He designed many of the windows with geometric shapes and colors. Taliesin 1911 was made after a personal crisis.
