New Organic Architecture

New Organic Architecture
Author: David Pearson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1308
Release: 2001
Genre: Nature (Aesthetics)
ISBN: 9780520232884

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New Organic Architecture is a manifesto for building in a way that is both aesthetically pleasing and kinder to the environment. It illuminates key themes of organic architects, their sources of inspiration, the roots and concepts behind the style, and the environmental challenges to be met. The organic approach to architecture has an illustrious history, from Celtic design, Art Nouveau, Arts and Crafts, to the work of Antoni Gaud� and Frank Lloyd Wright. Today there is a response to a new age of information and ecology; architects are seeking to change the relationship between buildings and the natural environment. In the first part of his book, David Pearson provides a history and assessment of organic architecture. The second part comprises statements from thirty architects from around the world whose work is based on natural or curvilinear forms rather than the straight-line geometrics of modernism. Each statement is accompanied by full-color illustrations of one or several of the architects' built projects.

An Organic Architecture

An Organic Architecture
Author: Frank Lloyd Wright
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781848222328

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A reissue in the Frank Lloyd Wright 150th anniversary year of the series of lectures which the celebrated American architect gave in London in 1939 and which outline his core philosophy of 'organic architecture'. In May 1939, the celebrated American architect Frank Lloyd Wright visited London and gave four lectures at the Royal Institute of British Architects. The meetings were hailed at the time as the most remarkable events of recent architectural affairs in England, and the lectures were published as An Organic Architecture in September 1939 by Lund Humphries. The texts remain an important expression of the architect's core philosophy and are being reissued now in a new edition to commemorate the 150th anniversary in 2017 of Frank Lloyd Wright's birth. In the lectures, Frank Lloyd Wright discusses several of his recent projects, including his Usonian houses, his homes and studios at Taliesin, Wisconsin and Arizona, Fallingwater and the Johnson administration building. His charismatic, flamboyant character and hugely creative intelligence leap to life from the pages as he looks to the 'Future', both in terms of the then-imminent Second World War and his vision for cities. This new edition includes an insightful new essay by esteemed architectural historian, Professor Andrew Saint, which sets the lectures within context and highlights their continued resonance and appeal

Fractal Architecture

Fractal Architecture
Author: James Harris
Publisher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2012-06-16
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0826352022

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Throughout history, nature has served as an inspiration for architecture and designers have tried to incorporate the harmonies and patterns of nature into architectural form. Alberti, Charles Renee Macintosh, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Le Courbusier are just a few of the well- known figures who have taken this approach and written on this theme. With the development of fractal geometry--the study of intricate and interesting self- similar mathematical patterns--in the last part of the twentieth century, the quest to replicate nature’s creative code took a stunning new turn. Using computers, it is now possible to model and create the organic, self-similar forms of nature in a way never previously realized. In Fractal Architecture, architect James Harris presents a definitive, lavishly illustrated guide that explains both the “how” and “why” of incorporating fractal geometry into architectural design.

Organic Design in Twentieth-Century Nordic Architecture

Organic Design in Twentieth-Century Nordic Architecture
Author: Erik Champion
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2019-02-18
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1351849301

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Organic Design in Twentieth-Century Nordic Architecture presents a communicable and useful definition of organic architecture that reaches beyond constraints. The book focuses on the works and writings of architects in Nordic countries, such as Sigurd Lewerentz, Jørn Utzon, Sverre Fehn and the Aaltos (Aino, Elissa and Alvar), among others. It is structured around the ideas of organic design principles that influenced them and allowed their work to evolve from one building to another. Erik Champion argues organic architecture can be viewed as a concerted attempt to thematically unify the built environment through the allegorical expression of ongoing interaction between designer, architectural brief and building-as-process. With over 140 black and white images, this book is an intriguing read for architecture students and professionals alike.

Organic Architecture

Organic Architecture
Author: Alan Hess
Publisher: Gibbs Smith Publishers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781586858575

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Surveying over 125 years this book traces the trends of organic architecture,rchitecture that interprets a building's design, structure, use, and life asn organic thing. Showcasing the work of architects such as Louis Sullivan,rank Furness, Frank Lloyd Wright and Bruce Goff to lesser knowns theserchitects embraced a fresh style that used modern techniques blended with angeless natural landscape. Unexpectedly organic design reflects an exuberant,pulent, and at times extravagant complexity of line, form, texture,tructure, and color. Less is not necessarily more in Organic design.

Truth Against the World

Truth Against the World
Author: Frank Lloyd Wright
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Total Pages: 494
Release: 1987
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

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This is a unique and comprehensive collection of the significant speeches of Frank Lloyd Wright. The speeches presented, spanning nearly six decades, touch on Wright's ideas on organic architecture, the machine, improving the human condition, honor, education, democracy, city planning and his Broadacre City in particular and government. Profusely illustrated with over 300 photographs and drawings, most of which have never been published. A companion volume to the author's collection of conversations and interviews with Wright, The Master Architect.

The Natural House

The Natural House
Author: Frank Lloyd Wright
Publisher:
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1954
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

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When Frank Lloyd Wright turns his attention to one of the most important personal problems now facing practically everyone in our society - it is a time for rejoicing. The world's greatest architect here meets the urgent problem of suitable shelter for The Family in a democracy, in a magnificent and - as was to be expected - challenging book. Here, presented at last in full detail, is the natural house. The moderate cost houses described in this book and profusely illustrated with 116 photographs, plans and drawings, are houses - of infinite variety for people of limited means - in which living has become for their owners a purposeful new adventure in freedom and dignity. Mr. Wright tells the story of the world famous "Usonian" houses, so that we now see, in text and illustrations, how they have evolved from original conception to final execution. He has also written a step-by-step description of the "Usonion Automatic," explaining just how that remarkable house is built - a simplified method of construction so devised that the owners themselves can build it with great economy and beauty. For this purpose, there are, in addition to Mr. Wright's text, special photographs and drawings of the method and materials, showing clearly how the Usonion Automatic is built.

The Future of Architecture

The Future of Architecture
Author: Frank Lloyd Wright
Publisher: Plume
Total Pages: 360
Release: 1970
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

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The new organic

The new organic
Author: Andrew Down
Publisher:
Total Pages: 58
Release: 1987
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

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The New Natural House Book

The New Natural House Book
Author: David Pearson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1998
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0684847337

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Gathers ideas and advice on building, decorating, furnishing, and living with a toxin-free home built from natural materials.