ARTH 2610 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Lovell House, Frank Lloyd Wright, Aline Barnsdall
6 Feb 2017
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Key points for today: modernism on the west coast, wright between the wars. Informal living arrangement, open and fluid, enormous space for living rooms, walls mostly glass blend of inside and outside: connection to nature very important. Included in moma because it follows the international style, but it is in america. Schindler/chace house, rudolph schindler, hollywood, 1921: reacting to the california setting, situated in the environment, landscape to define space, very fluid, partitions, landscaping, inside/outside, almost like communal living, sleeping porches good climate for them, wood and concrete. Japanese architectural influence: d(cid:449)elli(cid:374)g as a pri(cid:373)iti(cid:448)e e(cid:454)perie(cid:374)(cid:272)e, (cid:271)a(cid:272)k to (cid:271)asi(cid:272)s, like (cid:272)a(cid:373)pi(cid:374)g spare and provisional, landscape and architecture synthesize, taking advantage of all space on the property, fireplace on the outside patio, tilt-slab technique. Frank lloyd wright: period of struggle in the late 20"s, he started a(cid:374) appre(cid:374)ti(cid:272)eship, his work was included in the moma, but as a precursor to the modern international.
