The Skyscraper Museum
Frank Lloyd Wright: The Vertical Dimension
October 6, 2004 - January 9, 2005
The first comprehensive examination of the high-rise designs of America’s foremost architect, Frank Lloyd Wright: The Vertical Dimension, examines Wright’s abiding interest in the re-invention of the tall building. Over the course of his long career, Wright designed a dozen high-rise buildings of which only two were built--the Johnson Research Tower in Racine, Wisconsin (1944), and the Price Tower in Bartlesville, Oklahoma (1952-56). With these designs, Wright proposed a new structure for the skyscraper, challenged prevailing building practices with his use of materials, and proposed new directions in high-rise living.
special thanks to selma
i think he did horizontal better than vertical, but this deserves a look.
I agree, but the Bowery would have been a much different place...
The Price Tower is basically the St. Marks design taken out of the city context and placed on the prairie. He referred to his building in Oklahoma as "the tree that escaped the crowded forest." It is a nice image not only true in the vertical landscape it occupies but also because he saw the building structure like a tree: the core of the building being the 'trunk' and the floors that cantilever off the trunk as branches and leaves.
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Frank Lloyd Wright: The Vertical Dimension
October 6, 2004 - January 9, 2005
The first comprehensive examination of the high-rise designs of America’s foremost architect, Frank Lloyd Wright: The Vertical Dimension, examines Wright’s abiding interest in the re-invention of the tall building. Over the course of his long career, Wright designed a dozen high-rise buildings of which only two were built--the Johnson Research Tower in Racine, Wisconsin (1944), and the Price Tower in Bartlesville, Oklahoma (1952-56). With these designs, Wright proposed a new structure for the skyscraper, challenged prevailing building practices with his use of materials, and proposed new directions in high-rise living.
special thanks to selma
- bill 10-07-2004 5:40 pm
i think he did horizontal better than vertical, but this deserves a look.
- bill 10-07-2004 5:41 pm [add a comment]
I agree, but the Bowery would have been a much different place...
The Price Tower is basically the St. Marks design taken out of the city context and placed on the prairie. He referred to his building in Oklahoma as "the tree that escaped the crowded forest." It is a nice image not only true in the vertical landscape it occupies but also because he saw the building structure like a tree: the core of the building being the 'trunk' and the floors that cantilever off the trunk as branches and leaves.
- selma 10-07-2004 7:35 pm [add a comment]