Born: 8 June 1867 died: 9 April 1959
An American architect, interior designer, writer and educator.
Unlike his rivalry in modernist planning such as Le Corbusier who promotes internationally style of high urban concentration of planning, Frank Lloyd Wright promotes organic style of architecture. He believes organic suburban planning is a way to allow individuals to enjoy maximum freedom, to great a harmonious relationships between the architecture and the environment. Like he always said :“A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.” So Frank Lloyd Wright went away from traditional thinking of planning and proposed what he called “Quadruple Block Plan.” This design strayed from traditional suburban lot layouts and set houses on small square blocks of four equal-sized lots surrounded on all sides by roads instead of straight rows of houses on parallel streets. The houses were set toward the centre of the block so that each maximised the yard space and included private space in the centre. This also allowed for far more interesting views from each house.
Picture : 1903 (Projects for Charles E. Roberts 1896 - 1903) by Frank Lloyd Wright
This first Quadruple block plan ever commissioned
Frank Lloyd Wright also pursuit the same philosophy in buildings internal fixtures, including furniture, carpets, windows, doors, tables and chairs, light fittings and decorative elements. He was one of the first architects to design and supply custom-made, purpose-built furniture and fittings that functioned as integrated parts of the whole design, and he often returned to earlier commissions to redesign internal fittings.
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