It's creator is Frank Lode Wright, an American tradition overtaking the European one:
Villa.
A neoclassical American building is imposed only in rare cases of large representation (the Capitol), most often a villa (the White House). Approval of the concept of democratization-republican, referred to the house.
Pioneer houses.
The pioneers moved to endless meadows and built modest wooden houses, as well as more luxurious residences, churches and public buildings. There is always a very close contact with nature in the form of freedom of form
Skyscrapers.
They were created in response to the intensive exploitation of urban areas (offices) as a result of technological innovations. The skyscraper has a load-bearing structure with a metal frame and develops in height without load-bearing walls. There was a period when skyscrapers were built up on a small area, primarily for office buildings
Organic architecture the Wright.
Organic architecture develops as an organism from the central core, without pre-constructed geometric schemes, living freely in its own environment and congenital with it. The architect adapts forms to each person. Wright has avoided the social problem: in America, cities are quickly turning into megacities, and skyscrapers seem to be the only possible solution.
On the other hand, it offers a family home surrounded by greenery, large and comfortable, especially for the wealthy bourgeoisie. The spaciousness of the space and the individual residence outside the city. He is the translator of a society that optimistically ignores the other America (poor, dirty and overpopulated neighborhoods and ghettos). In 1919, he travelled across Europe.
A house on a waterfall.
Since 1936, Pennsylvania has used all the resources of modern technology and materials (concrete, iron, glass), and the building has been made up of cantilever slabs hung on a vertical supporting structure of open stones. This puts human work in symbiosis with the work of nature.
The house is suitable for the environment as if it was born there. This is the most representative work of organic architecture as an integration with nature. It extends towards primitive nature. A stone structural body rises above large boulders. Horizontal concrete slabs protrude to the edge of the waterfall. It is like the interpenetration between nature and home. The interior (stone floor, large windows, low and horizontal furniture) has a mutual and uniform exchange from the outside.
Guggenheim Museum (1943-1999).
In the heart of New York City it is in an established organic connection with the city. It stretches towards the city, penetrating spiral movements in the expansion: it rises from a narrow reservoir and above a long horizontal strip, unfolds from bottom to top. The idea of a building radiating light towards the city creates the idea of light. T
he symbolic meaning of form: the expansion of the circle expresses infinity, and its expansion is a symbol of the value of art, which is shimmering at all. The outer form is dictated by the inner form: the museum consists of a single circular space, illuminated by a large central dome, around the perimeter of which stands a continuous spiral ramp, which gradually leads the viewer before the works.
The architecture is postmodern.
During the twenty years after the Second World War, in the industrial world, according to functional and undifferentiated rules, a lot has been built. One of the main ideas of a long period of urban expansion, the replacement of old districts with large skyscrapers, began to be actively challenged by new generations of architects. The result was a movement called Postmodernism.
Its exhibits marked the borders of the modern city: the suburbs without quality, the urban environment, impoverished by collective values, becomes a jungle of asphalt and a simple dormitory, the loss of local color and, in particular, the similarity with each other suburbs around the world. The architects of postmodernism promised to overcome this situation, abandoning the cold rationality of the great masters of the twentieth century, returning to decorating and recreating such elements of classical architecture as columns and capitals. Meanwhile, the millennium ended with a challenge from architects and engineers in Greenwich, where the meridian that regulates the clock around the world is held.
Thus, with the growth of cities and the needs of people, the fashion for architecture changed. People have come to unite the house with nature, abandoning the boring stone massifs of the city. However, at the moment the idea of organic architecture is only just beginning its era.