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Frank Lloyd Wright and His "Democrat."
By: bernardpyron Date: July 8, 2019, 8:47 am
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Frank Lloyd Wright and His "Democrat."
In his fall 1952 talk at the University of Wisconsin Student
Union auditorium Wright said "A Democrat is born hating the
government." By Democrat he did not mean the Democratic Party.
He defined Democratic as the freedom and dignity of the
individual, an ideology that came out his Wisconsin Populism and
Progressivism.
Progressivism, and Populism before it, had upheld the common
people and were both critical of the rich - and what we would
now call the ruling elite. The more agrarian populism of the
Midwest, Texas and the South, as well as Wisconsin Progressivism
were also critical of government. Wright's Usonian architecture
for the common man was inspired by his Progressivism, which was
influenced by the earlier agrarian populism. Progressivism
taught that the common man is capable of improving himself and
the whole society might be improved. To Wright, the Middle and
Lower Class people might be raised up to appreciate great art
and to develop as individuals in a free, democratic culture.
His organic architecture, he thought, was a major way common
people could be elevated. Wright thought his architecture would
edify the Middle and Lower Middle Classes. He suggested to me
in the fall of 1957 that I was studying his houses of the
fifties for "my own edification."
Wright said : “Let this truth come through: Democracy is far
stronger than Fascism or Communism or any other ism if allowed
to work. The idea of the absolute autonomy of a free man has
created a power in this world mightier than anything that can be
opposed to it.” —“Defense,” Taliesin Square Paper #4 (1941)
"This Architecture we call organic is an architecture upon which
true American society will eventually be based if we survive at
all." The Natural House, 1954"
"So, architecture speaks as poetry to the soul. In this machine
age to utter this poetry that is architecture, as in all other
ages, you must learn the organic language of the natural which
is ever the language of the new."
"Every great architect is—necessarily—a great poet. He must be a
great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age."
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Broadacre_City
"The planning profession has lost sight of the future and is
abandoning its responsibility in the design of cities and
oriented more toward social sciences and scientific method."
Broadacre City was an urban or suburban development concept
proposed by Frank Lloyd Wright. It was his application of some
of his principles of organic architecture to the city scale of
design, or urban planning.
"It was an entirely new and better way to build cities; it was
designed to be compatible with and to establish and preserve the
liberty and sovereignty of the individual as proposed in
American Democracy where the Citizen is King; historically he
saw as did Thomas Jefferson that cities were and continue to be
built by rulers to control or enslave the people. His thinking
on this began in Chicago at least by age 35 and was published at
least by 1918 at age 45."
"The sprawling continuous growth of the big city denies the
basic concept of decentralization advocated by Frank Lloyd
Wright in his concept of a city compatible with the American
system of democratic government."
"Wright first presented his unique and innovative idea in a book
The Disappearing City in 1932. A few years later he unveiled a
very detailed twelve by twelve foot (3.7 by 3.7 m) scale model
representing the principles and pattern of the concept in a
spacious and elegant four square mile..... The model was crafted
by student architects who paid for the privilege of working with
Wright as his apprentices at Taliesin. Wright would go on
explaining the concept in later books When Democracy Builds in
1945, The Living City in 1958 and in lectures, exhibitions and
articles until his death in 1959."
HTML https://www.chicagotribune.com/…/ct-biz-frank-lloyd-right-…
"Eight buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright, including the Prairie
style masterpiece of the Robie House in Chicago and the bold
concrete structure of Unity Temple in Oak Park, were named
Sunday to the United Nations’ list of the world’s most
significant cultural and natural sites.
Meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan, a UNESCO committee voted to place
the Wright buildings on the World Heritage List, which
recognizes such iconic structures as the Taj Mahal, the Egyptian
pyramids and the Statue of Liberty. The Wright structures are
the first works of U.S. modern architecture to make the
prestigious list."
Wright died in 1959, sixty years ago. But if Frank Lloyd Wright
knew what the United Nations has become in the past sixty years,
it is doubtful if he would feel honored by anything they would
say about his work. Among other things, Wright was a follower of
Thomas Jefferson, and as a Jeffersonian, he would not have
appreciated the totalitarian nature of the UN in 2019.
Since Trump was involved in building large buildings in urban
areas during his career, the question on what he thought of the
larger buildings and especially the skyscraper-type buildings
and projects of Frank Lloyd Wright has to be raised. I do not
know anything about Trump's attitude toward the architecture of
Frank Lloyd Wright, nor where to look to find out anything on
this topic.
Some of the spokespeople of the Patriot-Populist-Alternative
Media Movement have suggested that this movement can be seen to
be a Countercultural movement. It does include the present day
alternative health care movement, and it is in opposition to
aspects of Conventional Medical Care such as vaccinations, and
prescription drugs. Why could not the
Patriot-Populist-Alternative Media Movement also include an
Alternative Art Movement which includes Architecture?
And why could the Patriot-Populist-Alternative Media Movement
not also be allied with an organic architecture movement which
affirms designs that are beyond the box as architecture?
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Re: Frank Lloyd Wright and His "Democrat."
By: bernardpyron Date: July 10, 2019, 8:37 pm
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See Form and Space Diversity in Human Habitats: Perceptual
Responses, Environment and Behavior, 3, 4, 382-411, Dec 1971
In the study I did with three research assistants in the spring
and summer of 1970 I focused on the city block level of design.
In addition to being published in Environment and Behavior, in
December of 1971 this study was reviewed briefly in The
Milwaukee Sentinel - Oct 17, 1970.
The idea for this study done at the University of Wisconsin in
Madison, funded by a grant from the Public Health Service, was
that the participants would look around more at the more complex
environments than at the more simple ones.
We measured amount of coverage of the visual field by a camera
photographing the eyes of the participants and recording their
eye movements.
The hypothesis that the participants would look around more at
the more complex environments than at the more simple ones was
confirmed by the data. And form and space information, or amount
of complexity were additive as expected, for determining how
much the participants looked around at the environments shown
them by the 16mm black and white films.
Amount of visual coverage of the field of view can be taken as a
measure of the orienting response to information in the
environment. The more the amount of information, the more the
people looked around to see the environment. An orienting
response can be an indicator of interest in what the person is
looking at.
The more the amount of information in the environment looked at,
the more the people looked around to see the environment. The
greater the diversity of building forms and of the spaces
created by these forms, the more information there is to see in
the built environment
We found that the people in our study looked around more at the
movies of more diverse forms and spaces and looked around less
at less diverse spaces and forms.
On questionnaires the people also said they liked the more
diverse form and space environments more than the less diverse -
though the preference was greater for form than for space
diversity. They liked diverse house forms more than simple
forms.
Some of the ideas for this study of the urban environment at the
city block scale came from the old man who had lived forty
miles to the west of Madison, Wisconsin on the Wisconsin River.
Frank Lloyd Wright did one suburban "town" design he called
Broadacre City of 1935, which was a suburban landscape with
trees and a few buildings larger than homes, with fantastic
looking cars on the streets. But instead of the small city lot
of 60 by 120 feet in Wright's design every family would have an
acre of land.
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Re: Frank Lloyd Wright and His "Democrat."
By: patrick jane Date: August 28, 2020, 3:23 pm
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Good
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Re: Frank Lloyd Wright and His "Democrat."
By: patrick jane Date: October 29, 2020, 1:38 pm
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