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THE ARCHITECT WHO IS HE AND WHY
He is a relentless observer.
He is always active and effective in the
investigation of Nature.
Intimacy with Nature is the great friendship.
He sees ideas
as also manifest actions of Nature.
It is the poet in him that is the
great quality in him.
The profound naturalness of his own
being
is the
essential condition of a great architect
.
Organic architecture is
therefore the growth in space of an
idea - a state of
mind proceeding by the
natural
science of
structure in the use of
materials to the splendid,
appropriate art of FORM: form
true to
purpose.
Furthermore it is the art of building
wherein aesthetic and construction not
only approve but prove each other.
In organic sense such building is an
entity of the human
spirit, as that of any
tree or
flower is of the ground.
A
natural,
human
circumstance - possible
only to the complete architect.
He is master of the
elements: earth, air,
fire, light, and water.
Space,
motion, and gravitation are his
palette: the Sun his brush.
His
concern is the heart of
humanity.
He, of all men,
must see into the 'life' of
things.
Simplicity and repose are qualities that measure the
true value of any work
of art.
Simplicity is
not in itself an end nor is it a matter of the side of a barn but rather an
entity with a graceful beauty in its
integrity from which discord, and all that is meaningless, has been eliminated.
A wild
flower is truly simple.
I
know that the sense of an
organic architecture, once grasped, carries
with it in its very nature the
discipline of an
ideal at whatever cost to
self-interest or the established
order.
By organic architecture I
mean an architecture that develops from within outward in
harmony with the conditions of
its being.
A building should
appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to
harmonize with its surroundings
if Nature is manifest there, and if not try
to make it as quiet, substantial and organic
as She would have been were the
opportunity
Hers.
Bring out the
nature of the
materials, let their
nature intimately into your
scheme.
Reveal the
nature of the wood, plaster, brick or stone
in your designs; they are all by
nature friendly and
beautiful.
To achieve
success in any degree means a serious
devotion to the "underneath" in
an attempt to grasp the nature of building a
beautiful building
beautifully, as
organically
true in itself, to itself and to its
purpose, as any
tree or
flower.
Nothing is more
difficult to achieve than the integral simplicity of
organic nature, amid the tangled
confusions of the innumerable relics
of form that encumber life for us.
The
'life' in the
thing is that quality of it or in it
which makes it perfectly
natural - of course that means
organic.
Therefore we will loyally
love, honestly work and enthusiastically seek in all
thing the one thing of
value - Life.
Many
wealthy people are little more than janitors of their
possessions.
According to
our strength of character and
our clarity of vision, we
will endure, we will succeed, we
will have contributed something to make life
where we were and as
we lived it
better, brighter, and more beautiful.
- Frank Lloyd Wright,
American architect
See
Ralph Waldo Emerson
See
Henry David Thoreau |
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