Frank Lloyd Wright's Organic Plans

In this video we take a look at the floor plans of Frank Lloyd Wright and breakdown what goes into his organic architecture. We begin with some of his early work like the Ward Willits house and compare it with a more standard 'Single Style House' of the period. Then, we see how these concepts and techniques are translated into later works like Robie House. Important aspects of Frank Lloyd Wrights Organic Architecture include diagonal movement, overlapped corner rooms, corner windows, and a design process that goes from the inside out. All this goes into thinking specifically about organic plans as a particular category of open concepts.

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[marje]

Hey mate I'm not even an architect student but these videos are super interesting. Thank you :)

[AskAW]

It's me again.

For the past 13 years, I've been selling real estate and have always disliked the way we describe properties. I love the way architects talk about spaces because you all design the spaces.

It's weird to see the salesperson (real estate agents) lose touch with the original vision of the creator because of ignorance.

I'm going to have fun reintroducing some of these terms into my real estate marketing pieces.

Thanks for the education. You're doing a great job making these videos feel like 30-second commercials.

[cincocats]

Moving through a FLW space feels so different than moving through a space that has had the interior walls all knocked out. Even in his larger spaces, the use of partioning is so masterful and itfosters a sense of intimacy. Real estate open concept so often feels like the waiting area at the airport since walls are knocked solely for the #open-concept without considerations beyond that.

[HyperCrow]

You have a criminally small # of subscribers for this level of production value

[alaskanuni]

Can't express how excited I am to discover this series. Short, informational video essays are my jam and finding a series on architecture has been REALLY tough.

I would love it if you did a series of videos on architecture's most important buildings/houses.

[alank.c.]

This channel is pure gold, thanks for the great, great content, I'm glad I came across your videos, keep up the good work:) This is beyong useful as a student just finishing my 4th semester

[wabisabi.]

This is so nice. I could never get what was so special about Wright's houses. They looked so, for lack of a better word, basic as compared to the more radical concepts of modernist houses. A really good video. Maybe you should start doing a series on specific case studies. I feel like we, as an architecture student, really need that. Instead of just going through history in a breeze without actually studying deeply on a specific structure.

[michael]

Stewart. I'm so glad I found this channel. Looks like I have a bunch of videos to watch. I'm learning so much. Thank you.

[nextgenph]

I used to work as a photographer for Arthur Dyson here in CA. Love going back over FLW stuff to see how people have taken his ideas and run with them. Thanks for this.

[Sanguivore]

I’m so glad I found your videos! They’ve awakened a passion in me for architecture that I never even knew I had.

You’re an excellent teacher!

[naaabbbilah]

Hi, thank you for the video. I learned a bit of FLY's designs back when I was still student in a university in Indonesia, but I feel like I understand his design more by watching your video😅 I didn't realize until I watch this video that traditional houses here in my hometown (Indonesia) have been adapted this concept where every room (except bedrooms and bath rooms) are connected where there is no permanent seperation (ex. walls). I think this concept is also related to our culture.
Anyway, thank you for the insights, sir!

[Lou.B]

GREAT film!
Wright's 'Usonian' in San Luis Obispo, CA uses the clerestory window, but one thing about them that most people don't catch (in fact, I've never read about ANYone noticing this) is that these are actually stylized images of the Central California Coastline, with the prominent Morro Rock represented along with other low hills of the area, complete with valley shadows, highlights, and even overhanging trees.
There's more: as the sun travels over the top of the extended roofline, its shadow gradually descends down the face of the window (mainly in the lobby), and this effect creates a moving horizon that looks just like that of the sea beyond the trees and hills. It's a visually stunning surprise, that I'd be willing to bet he's used in other of his buildings! Maybe those oddly-shaped clerestory cutouts are meant to portray an actual image - complete with horizon!

[Chronomatrix]

I fell in love with FLW's work in college, his designs always felt like perfection to me.

[ChrisHodges]

This is perfect and incredibly helpful for a book I am writing using Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater as an example of a structure designed for the way people actually want to use it compared to Colonial style homes designed for how people no longer live. I’m a layman and your professional description is very helpful. In fact you would be a good interview when my book comes out. Well done Professor.

[shaggybreeks]

Design from the inside out. So logical, and yet so rarely done. Most buildings are seen from the outside only, and apparently, we keep thinking from the outside when we design.

[matthewmessner]

I'm a big proponent of rooms. Which oddly seems to be an unpopular stance in real estate. Great to see how FLLW ideas of openness are so different than the contemporary idea of the "open floor plan".

[TheAaronExperience]

Very much enjoying your series, Stewart. I'm in the process of planning my first ADU and find inspiration here. You're the first person I've ever heard use the word, mullion, other than myself. I was asked to repair a window once but no one knew exactly the name of the piece to be repaired so I looked it up and added the word in my lexicon. To learn that FLW was anti-box/anti-fascist just makes this video all the more interesting.

Again, thanks for sharing.

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[arnasagen]

Such a great video!
Second time I’m watching it now and still learned something new

[badapple]

I can’t get enough of FLW, in fact I ride my motorcycle from my N. IL home to Taliesin several times per year. Approximately a 2.5 hour ride each way through the most beautiful hills and valleys of the Driftless section of WI. Feels like being in Europe especially how quickly the terrain changes from the stateline area to Spring Green.