Introduction
World-renowned as the greatest American architect of all time, Frank Lloyd Wright played a pivotal role in altering the evolutionary course of architecture. With a career spanning over an impressive seven decades, Wright designed one-thousand-one-hundred-and-fourteen architectural works, five-hundred-and-thirty-two of which were realized (The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, 2018). He made it his life’s work to develop an appropriate architecture for both the young American nation and the new world of the twentieth century. Considering this, he believed in designing structures that harmonised both humanity and environment, a philosophy he called “organic architecture” (Wright & Watson, 1970). Arguably, it is this philosophy that elevated Frank Lloyd Wright’s esteemed status.
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He defined the word organic as an entity, “part is to whole as whole is to part” (Wright, 1953). In other words, Wright argued that this concept of simplified thinking or reducing the whole of its parts into its simplest terms was a fundamental principle in organic architecture. The ideal of the organic was “form and function are one” (Wright, 1953). This ideal allowed Frank Lloyd Wright to maintain a guided design process throughout his career.
As mentioned earlier, the inspiration behind his ideal grew from nature’s principles. For instance, the intrinsic simplicity seen in nature inspired Wright to design structures and spaces that were balanced with their natural surroundings and tailored to the function they serve for their inhabitants. Frank Lloyd Wright was adamant that the uniqueness of a person should be reflected in the style of the house he or she inhabits. Therefore, there should be as many styles of houses as there are kinds of people (Lind, 1992). Even so, Wright still managed to maintain an organic integrity in his many different