Wright’s and Le Corbusier’s Architecture Essay

Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright was the greatest architects lived during the periods of late 19^th and early 20^th century. His ability to combine time, space and style by continuously transforming across different stages of growth is well recognised. In the career spanning about seventy years, the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed dramatically creative buildings.It could be stated that his works forms the basic environment for the rise of modern architecture.

The interest and passion for the new ideas and techniques by Wright was evident while analysing the clients he had in the initial part of his career. Most the clients he attended was individuals with exceptional courage to embrace new concepts and also smaller private institutions with high level of enterprising attitude. Wright had initially insisted upon the representation of pure cubic mass, the colour and texture of raw stone with passages of continuous flowing spaces.

Through this philosophy of design he could break the conventional school of thought in the classical architectural forms of separated spaces. Wright’s architectural forms were filed with extreme differences often radical to the conventional thinking. (Legacy: Reflection).

Wright own an unique distinction of being the finest architect of romantic domestic design through the rhythmical accents achieved on the roofs at Taliesin East besides preparing the basic footprint or imagery for modern design as achieved in the Larkin building, Buffalo by thoroughly integrating structure with circulation, ventilation, lighting and other building services. The independent thinking and distinctive approaches advocated by Wright resulted in changing his style very often. Wrights contribution clearly shows his ability to think beyond his clients demand of realising the expected dream with out being contented with ordinary or conventional. (Phoenix, 2007).

Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier is one of the most influential and admired architects of the 20^th century for his modern visions on homes and cities. Biggest acceptance of his theories on urban living spaces were during the post world war reconstruction exercises. Inspire of having only a very little training on pure architecture, Le Corbusier had a strong conviction that 20^th century would be the period of advancement which would give way for newer ways of living.

He was of the opinion that architecture was failing to embrace the inevitable changes as the buildings continued to be constructed in line with the historical pattern. The basic structural forms of Le-Corbusier was evolved from the realisation of the limits about the modern construction technology. The most significant revolution adopted by LeCorbusier as the incorporation of the concepts of better building material which would be capable to support the mass production, flexible designs and having function over style. A house when constructed of reinforced concrete was capable to be mass produced with flexidle designs and allocting the inner spaces as required by the occupants.

Further, his inclination to the theory of purism which says that architects need to refine and modify continuously and giving away with ornamentation and thus making architectures efficient as as a factory assembly line. Le Corbusier proposed production of standardised housing types to solve the acute housing problems of industrialised countries by adopting methods of mass production of an automobile industry. Even though he has strong inclination for mass production of housing systems, his theories also emphasised the importance of inciopoporting nature into living spaces. Using standardised housing types Le Corbusier had submitted a proposal to make Victorian cities more healthy and humane, which were considered highly chaotic. (Corbusier).

Conclusion

Considering the above facts it is quite obvious that architectural principals of Le Corbusier was not at all new as he had adapted from the existing set of practices. But the methods which was advocated was revolutionary in nature as the practices was unknown across the field of architurs which was more dominated by ornamentative forms and historical styles. While Frank Lloyd Wright was new in his approaches keeping in line with the architectural principles without attempting any major revolutions.

Bibliography

Legacy: Reflection. Organic Architecture. Web.

Phoenix, Arizona. (2007). Frank Lloyd Wright Biography. Web.

Corbusier, Le. L’Espirit Nouveau. Web.