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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Organic architecture"”.
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The Greenprint: Organic Architecture as a Model for Residential Living
This Master of Architecture thesis by Michael Rehrig explores organic architecture as a design methodology grounded in response to site, response to material, and quality of space with a focus on a proposed residential site in Blacksburg, Virginia. "Planted" within the landscape amongst the Blue …
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In Search of the Organic: An Unequivocal Exploration into the Principles of Organic Architecture
The architecture is a multi-venue performing arts complex consisting of a full-scale opera house, a mid-size open-air theater, a small recital salon, and an outdoor arena-style street-stage. The building is sited at Buzzard Point in Washington, DC at the terminus of South Capitol Street along the …
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Frank Lloyd Wright's Chinese Voyages: Travels, Studies, Collections in the Pursuit of Organic Architecture
… Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) in his quest for organic architecture. While extensive research has been conducted on Wright's influence from Japan, his connections with China have been largely overlooked in scholarly discourse. It is notably underrecognized among Wright scholars that Wright …
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A Water Garden: Celebrating the Beauty of Nature
Nature, as the major consideration of the Organic Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, has constantly been favored as a path for a pure soul to communicate with the spiritual. Inspired by Wright's Organic Architecture and Traditional Chinese Garden, this thesis celebrates the beauty of Nature in …
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Frank Lloyd Wright beyond America
This thesis is a cultural study of the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright’s (1867-1959) beyond his homeland of America. It explores Wright’s travels as a means of unravelling his global ambitions and legacy. Wright was born in the age of the horse and cart and died in the age of commercial jet …
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Refiguring the sketch : the Nari Gandhi cartographic
… Gandhi, one of the earLiest proponents of organic architecture Taliesin and heaviLy influenced by Frank LLoyd Wright's teachings on the same subj personal understanding of the term: organic, extending it beyond his mentor's architectural rendition. Nari Gandhi defied the Legal and social …
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From the Cheney House to Taliesin : Frank Lloyd Wright and Feminist Mamah Borthwick
… into English. I argue that Key's notion of an "organic" system of male-female relationships prompted Wright to redefine his notion of what an organic architecture should be; and, that this shift in understanding led to the birth of Wright's first "natural house," Taliesin, which was built for …
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House of Dadis
… The building's layout and materials reflect the organic architecture philosophy of Frank Lloyd Wright, with flowing spaces, natural light, and strong connections between interior and exterior. The hospice also takes inspiration from Maggie's Centres, particularly in its spatial planning and …
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Reveries of a walk: Architectonics and an Attunement to Nature
Architecture has been primarily ocularcentric for the last century. This thesis proposes a more sensible approach to architecture. A multisensory experience that gives the user a deeper response to the building. Architecture can activate and engage multiple senses through the revelation of nature …
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The phenomenology of a modern architect and his sense of place: Henry Klumb's residential architecture in Puerto Rico, 1944-1975
… defining and demonstrable quality of his life in architecture. It was characterized by a heartfelt affection for various places where he lived and worked, and for the local populations at those places. These places and peoples included Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin, the American desert Southwest …
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SQUARING THE CIRCLE: The Regulating Lines of Claude Bragdon's Theosophic Architecture
… ancient scriptures and encyclopedias of their architecture. The fourth dimension was an imaginary mathematical (re)creation of great interest to Bragdon and common to scientific relativity and Eastern spirituality; two cultural constructs that altered the perception of time and space to affect …
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Sacred sounds and natural grounds: designing acoustic communities within Prairie Style and Organic architectural spaces
… by Frank Lloyd Wright and his Prairie Style and Organic Architectural contemporaries. It examines a period of nearly 100-years, from the late 1890s to the mid-1980s, and considers the way music performance has been used to sacralize and elevate the meaning of architectural space. By examining …
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Toward [Re]generative Environmental Design
… and inhabitant] cares.” [Wayne Attoe: The Architecture of Ricardo Legorreta] In this case, the project is a new rural family residence for a couple and their son, with an adjacent cottage for their aging parents. With a collective desire to design, build and live in the most ecologically …