Frank Lloyd Wight Why is Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture so strongly associated with the landscape? Frank Lloyd Wright is strongly associated with landscapes as he believes architecture should come from a root of landscape and would be influenced by natural forms. Building Wright designed including Falling water and the Guggenheim we’re strongly influenced by the natural world. Wrights interest in nature came from his childhood where he lived by the Wisconsin River. He would spend summers on his uncles farm helping with animals as well as being in ore of the natural world. To him nature was the most important element and became his most inspirational force, he would say to his students “Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you” The Wright Style (1992). He did not want to copy nature but instead wanted to be inspired by it and create organic forms. When creating the design for Falling Water, Lloyd Wright was inspired by the flat plane of rock at the top of the waterfall, rather than the land opposite the waterfall. The materiality he used mimic the landscape with the stone walls, similar to the rock the building sits on. Making the building blend in with the surroundings. He also follows nature with the colour pallet, avoiding black but instead using browns, beige, red and greys; the same applies for the inside. The red framing for the windows was specially chosen to mimic the bark of the trees on site.
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