The Wright Way To Build

           Democracy. The foundation of the American society. Since the beginnings of our nation we have focused on the freedom of the individual, and that this is a liberty never to be denied. However we weren't the first to come up with this concept. We adopted it from the old Western Civilization, and it has worked out very well so far. At this point you're probably wondering if I mis-titled my blog. I'm simply explaining why I'm in concordance with Frank Loyd Wright's adaptive, and ground breaking, architecture style. Even as we took the democratic ideals of the Greeks and the Romans, our architects were looking at the white columns, and pillars of the Parthenon.

             It was soon obvious that this style was the architecture of choice for our fledgling confederation. As the white columns make heavy appearances in the White House, the Lincoln memorial, almost every state capital, and many private homes.

            Frank Loyd Wright took one look at the situation and decided that adding the outstanding vertical pillars on a terrain as flat and long as the American Midwest, was just plain foolish. Wright insisted, "To use any material wrongly is to abuse the integrity of the whole design." Following that guideline it seems rather obvious that the shining white stone quarried in the mountains doesn't belong in the prairie. Instead he would go on to use lots of browns, reds, and tan, like one would see on the prairie.

         I very much enjoy his architecture, and how it seems to grow from the ground that it's built on. Very few people don't enjoy his most famous creation, which is Fallingwater. But I have even seen his private homes built right here in Peoria and though they're very old now they blend with the land where they were setting they were built in. The availability of new materials such as concrete and welded steel beams should be somewhat accredited to Frank Loyd Wright's successful new style. Before these materials, it was much more difficult to build structurally sound buildings that had low, wide sweeping overhangs and massive concrete balcony's.

Fallingwater House

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CVKU3ErrGM

         Frank Loyd Wright was the first American architect of world significance, I believe that it was this philosophy of relationship between the setting and the structure that made him as successful as he was.