Of Frank Lloyd Wright We can count among your most recognized works the Guggenheim Museumof a raw white and tubular form, in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, and Fallingwater, in the rural area of Pennsylvania, where a waterfall literally crosses the house he designed for a magnate of the department store in 1935. These works adorn puzzles and calendars, as proof that they are now commercially known. However, to really understand the spirit of Wright, it is also important to study the 323 hectares of Taliesin, in Spring Green, Wisconsin.
In your home, school and study of 3 437 m², Frank Lloyd Wright He could freely design new concepts without risking the client feeling dissatisfied. He designed at a human scale (Wright measured around 1.70 meters), made open plant plans, a cantilever roof and introduced the exterior with window walls, since there were no neighbors and he was the inhabitant of the house.
Most of the houses of Frank Lloyd WrightT in Wisconsin enroll in two chronologies: 1902-1917 (including six American System-Built Homes in an apple of Milwaukee) and 1937-1959 (including its first Usonian: the Herbert house and Katherine Jacobs I in Madison, finished in 1937).
Frank Lloyd Wright Richland Center was born in the nearby June 8, 1867, two weeks before the summer solstice light flooded the west medium. Like Spring Green, Richland Center is located in the Driftless Area area, which houses one of the highest concentrations of ecological farms in the United States, with 200 ecological farms certified only in Vernon County already one hour north of Taliesin. (Curious fact: In Taliesin there are also 121 hectares with ecological certification, where colleagues architects They reaped strawberries and potatoes).
Living in 323 hectares with several generations of his family, there was no shortage of green spaces, and he was based on this pastoral environment in his designs. «In Taliesin, the story began long before Wright,» said Caroline Hamblin, a program manager that has lived in Taliesin since he arrived from Germany in the 1980s, on a recent visit between racks for Wright members in Wisconsin. And this really deeply influenced Wright. It was the only place that was not razed during the ice age and houses some of the oldest meadow species, even today.
This desire to preserve – not destroy – nature is very present in Wright's orders. The Herbert and Katherine Jacobs II house in Madison, Wisconsin, (finished in 1948) is built on a hill covered with grass and with a solar-hemiciclo design. An aid on the roof invites you to heat in winter, but prevents heat from reaching beyond the window wall in summer.
Back to his house of Taliesin, «Frank Lloyd Wright eliminated Interior walls and created windows walls to further frame the views of nature. Wright knew how introduce the light From different angles and from above, «explains Hamblin. He never introduced direct light into a habitable space.