Organic Architecture

有機的建築 / 1900s– / Style / Modern Architecture

Refuses to treat building, furniture, material, terrain and light separately, designing them as one continuum that includes the place and the life lived in it.

Organic Architecture — Wright Fallingwater — Wikimedia Commons / Public domain — Wright Fallingwater — Wikimedia Commons / Public domain

Organic Architecture — Wright Guggenheim Museum (CC BY 2.0) · © Ajay Suresh from New York, NY, USA — Wright Guggenheim Museum (CC BY 2.0) · CC BY 2.0 · © Ajay Suresh from New York, NY, USA

Organic Architecture — Wright Johnson Wax Headquarters (CC BY-SA 4.0) · © Alternate State — Wright Johnson Wax Headquarters (CC BY-SA 4.0) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · © Alternate State

At a glance

Visual cues

Integration with terrain
Horizontals
Natural materials
Inside-outside continuity

Best used for

Houses on slopes or in woodland where floors step with the ground instead of cutting it.
Projects where built in furniture and building share one module throughout.

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Dictionary entry

Type: Repeat one geometry down to signs and furniture, adding no foreign typeface.
Composition: Stretch the horizontals and open from a low entry into a tall room.
Material: Local stone and solid timber joined by plaster and matched metalwork.
Caution: Assembling natural materials and curves without reading contours and sun produces a shell that could stand anywhere, missing the principle that unites site, structure, furniture and movement.
Further study: Frank Lloyd Wright / Fallingwater / Taliesin

Related entries

Biomorphism (バイオモーフィズム／有機的形態)Same Modern Architecture lineage.Compare Organic Architecture and Biomorphism
Arts and Crafts (アーツ・アンド・クラフツ)Shared effects: Intimacy / Luxury.Compare Organic Architecture and Arts and Crafts

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