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In the Cause of Architecture, II: “Style, therefore, will be the man, it is his. Let his forms alone.”

An essay from May, 1914, by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Frank Lloyd Wright
January 24, 2016
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“Nature has made creatures only; Art has made Men.” Nevertheless, or perhaps for that very reason every struggle for truth in the arts and for the freedom that should go with the truth has always had its own peculiar load of disciples, neophytes and quacks.


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In the Cause of Architecture II: The Architect and the Machine

An essay from May, 1927, by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Frank Lloyd Wright
January 24, 2016
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The Machine is the architect’s tool – whether he likes it or not. Unless he masters it, the Machine has mastered him. The Machine? What is the machine?


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In the Cause of Architecture, II: Standardization, the Soul of the Machine

An essay from June, 1927, by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Frank Lloyd Wright
January 24, 2016
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John Ruskin and William turned away from the machine and all it represented in modern art and craft. They saw the deadly threat it was to all they loved as such – and eventually turned again to fight it, to the death – their death. They are memories now.
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In the Cause of Architecture, III: Steel

An essay from August, 1927, by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Frank Lloyd Wright
January 24, 2016
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Steel is THE epic of this age. Steel has entered our lives as a “material” to take upon itself the physical burden of our civilization.


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In the Cause of Architecture, IV: Fabrication and Imagination

An essay from October, 1927, by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Frank Lloyd Wright
January 24, 2016
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Time was when the hand wrought. Time is here when the process fabricates instead. Why make the fabrication a lie or allow it to become one when we try to make it “beautiful”?


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In the Cause of Architecture, I: The Logic of the Plan

An essay from January, 1928, by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Frank Lloyd Wright
January 24, 2016
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PLAN! There is something elemental in the word itself. A pregnant plan has logic – is the logic of the building squarely stated. Unless it is the plan for a foolish Fair.


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The Grammar of Style

In the Cause of Architecture, II. What “Styles” Mean to the Architect

An essay from February, 1928, by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Frank Lloyd Wright
January 24, 2016
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In what is now to arise from the plan as conceived and held in the mind of the architect, the matter of style may be considered as of elemental importance.


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In the Cause of Architecture, III: The Meaning of Materials—Stone

An essay from April, 1928, by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Frank Lloyd Wright
January 24, 2016
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The country between Madison and Janesville, Wisconsin, is the old bed of an ancient glacier-drift. Vast, busy gravel-pits abound there, exposing heaps of yellow aggregate, once, and everywhere else, sleeping beneath the green fields. Great heaps, clean and golden, are always waiting there in the sun. And I never pass without emotion – without a vision of the long dust-whitened stretches of the cement-mills grinding to impalpable fineness the magic-powder that would “set” it all to shape and wish, both, endlessly subjects to my will.


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In the Cause of Architecture, IV: The Meaning of Materials—Wood

An essay from May, 1928, by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Frank Lloyd Wright
January 22, 2016
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From the fantastic totem of the Alaskan – erected for its own sake as a great sculptured pole, seen in its primitive colors far above the snows – to the resilient bow of the American Indian, and from the enormous solid polished tree-trunks upholding the famous great temple-roofs of Japan to the delicate spreading veneers of rare, exotic woods on the surfaces of continental furniture, wood is allowed to be wood.


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In the Cause of Architecture, VI: The Meaning of Materials—Glass

An essay from July, 1928, by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Frank Lloyd Wright
January 22, 2016
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Perhaps the greatest difference eventually between ancient and modern buildings will be due to our modern machine-made glass. Glass, in any wide utilitarian sense, is new.


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