Once, during my class-work for the Landscape Architecture degree studies, I had an encounter with a TA about a project we had been assigned. Among the most successful and satisfying of his Usonian houses, was the Hanna House in Stanford, California, begun in 1937, which employs the application of the 30-60 degree angle-roughly, the angular dimensional arc of the honeycomb. Unlike the earlier Prairie structures, these designs had no basements or attics, were primarily single-story buildings they continued his focus on long, horizontal sight lines, with banks of horizontal windows, and also exploited open plan layouts and were always well-integrated (fitted) into the landscape where they stood. All of his work demonstrates, as well, a strong geometric feeling, often credited to his childhood play with Froebel blocks, a kind of toy used in kindergartens of the day.ĭuring the 1930's, Wright designed a series of residential structures which came to be known as the Usonian Houses. He developed a design principle which he called his "Prairie Style"-which emphasized strong horizontal lines, inspired by the flat, gently undulating Midwest countryside. The impressive early works can still be seen on Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. Frank Lloyd Wright's career was a long one, and it divides chronologically into distinct periods.īorn in the middle of the Victorian 19th Century, he lived to be 91, and even at the end, he was still actively producing works which would be among his most noteworthy.
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