Winter 2019

ARLH 208: Modern Architecture II

Prof. Williamson

Class 2: Arts and Crafts in England and the United States and the Early Career of Frank
Lloyd Wright

Vocabulary:

 Arts and crafts

 Organic architecture

 Prairie Style

 Cantilever

Key Themes: Arts and Crafts

 The Arts and Crafts movement in England grows out of the theories of John
Ruskin, Socialist politics, and a reaction against the industrialization of design.

 In Scotland, Charles Renee Mackintosh fuses Arts and Crafts ideas, Art Nouveau
aesthetics, and traditional Celtic forms.

 In the United States, architects fuse English Arts and Crafts theory with American
vernacular traditions and a growing admiration of Japanese craftsmanship

Arts and Crafts in England and Scotland

1. Joseph Paxton. The Crystal Palace. London, England. 1850-1851.

2. Philip Webb and William Morris. Red House. London, England. 1859.

3. Edwin Lutyens. Tigbourne Court. Witley, England. 1899-1901.

4. Charles Renee Mackintosh. Hill House. Helensburgh, Scotland. 1902-1903.

5. Charles Renee Mackintosh. Glasgow School of Art. Glasgow, Scotland.

1896-1909.

Arts and Crafts in the United States

6. Shaker Furniture.
a. Dining Table. Hancock, Massachusetts. 1800-1825.
 b. Side Chair. New Lebanon, New York. 1840-1860.

7. Gustav Stickley. Craftsman Furniture.

a. Side Chair. 1903. Oak, copper, and pewter.
b. Sideboard. 1912-1916.
Those are all Japanese style, but the length are different.
8. Gustav Stickley. Craftsman House, illustrated in The Craftsman. January, 1909.

9. Charles Sumner Greene and Henry Mather Greene. Dining Room Side Table,
Gamble House. 1909.

10. Greene and Greene. Gamble House. Pasadena, California. 1907-1908.

Located in Pasadena Ca, so the outside room like a California room.

11. Henry Hobson Richardson. Stoughton House. Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1883.

Some wood work on this house.

12. Kondo Hall. Horyu-ji. Japan. 7th Century CE.

13. Bernard Maybeck. First Church of Christ, Scientist. Berkeley, California.

1910.
Natural color, and wood. Congaree
The Early Career of Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)

Key Themes:
 Frank Lloyd Wright’s career emerges from a number of influences, including the
arts and crafts movement, his mentor Louis Sullivan, and Japanese architecture.

 In the first decade of the 20th century, Frank Lloyd Wright rethinks the family
home in the Chicago suburbs as he develops the Prairie Style, anchors his
buildings to the landscape, and argues for the “destruction of the box.”

 Wright synthesizes arts and crafts ideals with a respect for the power of the
machine, as he seeks to apply the concept of “truth to materials” to industrial
materials like concrete.

14. Louis Sullivan. Guaranty Building. Buffalo, New York. 1894-1895.

15. Louis Sullivan. National Farmer’s Bank. Owatonna, Minnesota. 1907-1908.

16. World’s Columbia Exhibition. Japanese Ho-o-den Temple. Chicago, Illinois.

1893.

17. Frank Lloyd Wright. Winslow House. River Forest, Illinois. 1893-1894.
18. Frank Lloyd Wright. Ward Willits House. Highland Park, Illinois. 1901.

19. Frank Lloyd Wright. Robie House. Chicago, Illinois. 1908-1910.

Claim control,

20. Frank Lloyd Wright. Larkin Building. Buffalo, New York. 1902-1906.
Very simplify

21. Frank Lloyd Wright. Unity Temple. Oak Park, Illinois. 1905-1908.
Characters of this building. Scale are look like same. Material is concrete

22. Frank Lloyd Wright. Hollyhock House. Los Angeles, California. 1919-1921.

Landscape

23. Frank Lloyd Wright. Alice Millard House (La Miniatura). Pasadena,
California. 1923.

Concrete,
24. Frank Lloyd Wright. Tokyo Imperial Hotel. Tokyo, Japan. 1915-1923.
Layout and window are similar