Frank Lloyd Wright’s Design Process

[@builtra]

Please don’t stop. Your Chanel is a blessing

[@khaledfotouh2875]

thank you so much for sharing thoughts on Franl L Right. As a young architecture student 0 years back I have always been attracted by his designs and the concepts behind them. your contribution is appreciated.

[@MossyMozart]

Make that "Frank Lloyd Wright".

[@gaminawulfsdottir3253]

The Price Tower operates an inn. I stayed one night there. I was struck by the way light and shadow interacted within the space. Every surface participated in it visually. Being in one of these rooms, living in it for even so short a time, is a subtle but immensely profound experience. It's one of being _inside_ a sculpture.

[@M13x13M]

Yeah, it’s his little know magnum opus.

[@jackjax7921]

Fran Lloyd Wrights work are all connected together. It just flows inside and outside. Pleasing to the eyes.

[@cosmojose5264]

What is the difference between "addition" and "nesting"?

[@robertsarchitecture]

Nesting is a box in a box. Addition is a box added to another box.

[@cosmojose5264]

@@robertsarchitecture Thank you.

[@PantonePapi]

About $20,000

[@davepowers2221]

I wish i. Had known this 45 yrs ago.

[@reyhanetayeb7939]

​@@davepowers2221 are u an architect?

[@warrendelley3832]

As a novice, I would appreciate understanding nesting, spaces penetrating each other (like breaking the box?), and lastly extension of spaces. I really enjoyed this video. Thanks!

[@robertsarchitecture]

Thanks! Check out my other video on these spatial concepts 'Formal Spatial Design in Architecture' here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pWWmqIKBgN12a9U

[@drew31805]

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[@kummer45]

Franky is one PARAMETRIC ARCHITECT that used the modular construction algorithm without knowing it. He devised his own pipelining process in HIS DRAWINGS. This dude his one of the pioneers on establishing a database building approach in his design process. In the end Architecture IS THIS. Architecture is a design of a database that serves our living and our logics. All the production of Franky is an extraordinary exploration of modular architecture using parametric design. You can see THIS in Le Corbusier too. The future IS the past. And the PAST is the future such as the architecture of the primitive future established by Sou Fujimoto. Frank Lloyd right UNDERSTOOD this quite well.

[@maximonacer5039]

Thank you so much for this video. My father incorporated many of Frank Lloyd’s principles in the very fine home he built for the family in 1958 at the Biltmore’s neighborhood. For this reason, I always wanted to continue improving in those design and to create my own…however I opted for medicine the last two years of HS and this has allowed me now to propose a merge between Architecture and the principles of human physiology …to build structures capable of pumping up water for virtually free …like the ósmosis and difusión of the Biological realm…to conceive a type of sustainable architecture only possible in the imagination before. Freedom everywhere!…The Vertical water displacement or hydroelectric VW-D will help building more “water fall houses” at lower maintenance cost with improved integration to natural environment.I am starting the building of a vertical water displacement station by using a pendulum wheel now powered by real horses and the second generation of this water technology will only use capillarity, leverage and transferring water as osmosis to gain height. As poetical and “crazy” as it sounds, the sky is the limit.

[@robertsarchitecture]

Thanks! Good luck!

[@magicknight13]

That is so great! I see the vision!

[@gary24752]

You should do one on how he did his site development and how he oriented the building.

[@robertsarchitecture]

Good idea.

[@absolutegenerique]

great video, one tipp-go in settins of camera and put focus to manual.

[@mambokixxx]

By far one of the most interesting videos I have ever seen!

[@outofthefoxootf979]

Nice video to get me into the mood right before my post-grad studies start. Thank you

[@magicknight13]

Awesome!!!

[@MossyMozart]

I have had the good fortune to visit the Guggenheim, Unity Temple, a number of his private residences in the Chicago area, Falling Water, Johnson Wax building, Taliesin East & West, the Taliesin Fellowship, and a number of TF designs with my fellow architecture student-friend. It got so we could identify a TF building from a mile away!

[@MossyMozart]

By the way, for you East Coasters, there is also a Sullivan building in Manhattan and in Buffalo.

[@jf8461]

This is an excellent presentation 👍🏼. I am very glad to have found it!

[@Behjafry]

Meanwhile.. Gaudi was using the logic of our physical reality to design, Fuller had solutions for problems 100 years ahead of his time and Hadid used simple projection to change how we perceive space, altogether. Those who know, know. There is no master with all the answers.

[@ryanburdeaux]

Are you discrediting FLW?

[@Behjafry]

We architects have a very difficult position during critique. How do you do it ? In context of paradigm or technology or politics perhaps ? Purely based on popular opinion- surely not that, good god at least not that! Or maybe we choose emotion - In which case: Show me a standardized unit of measurement for spatial-emotional-response, establish what a design elicits. We can begin to have the answer to your question. Again, this is just an opinion. 😊

[@ryanburdeaux]

@@Behjafry wait 100 hundred years and you’ll find out if someone is a genius. I think 8 of his works are unesco world heritage sites. What else do you need?

[@ishanhanda5005]

Teach me

[@spaceace9680]

@@ryanburdeaux how bout in the context of = how rotten a human FLW was to all the people in his life - great architect perhaps BUT miserable faucet of "nature"

[@stevemiller7949]

Dynamic symmetry ---- that's a new one. I will look it up.

[@vernedudeman]

Thank you SO MUCH for your work. Could you elaborate on the estotericism of the architecture. I'm obsessed now.

[@robertsarchitecture]

The quote from Louis Sullivan comes from his book 'A System of Architectural Ornament' ; "These simple forms, of ancient discovery and use, were given esoteric meaning and occult powers by the men of that day in an effort to control, by means of formulas and secret ritual, the destiny of man amidst the powers of nature. With mystic numbers and other phenomena they formed part of an elaborate system of magic to which the world pinned its faith." This is a very poetic way to say architects used sacred geometry in their work.

[@vernedudeman]

@@robertsarchitecture thank you!!!

[@elrondilsommo4899]

Best video on Frank Lloyd Wright ever!

[@jonahpower2412]

this was so interesting, the illustrations were top notch!

[@1JWL]

I enjoyed this. Also, not come across anyone talking about architecture the way you do.. you seem to talk about design from a holistic POV. Makes architecture truly sound divine... rather, "Esoteric" as you say. Thanks for putting this together ⚡

[@robertsarchitecture]

Thanks so much!

[@dearlantsov]

if it's not too much trouble, please do the design processes of more famous architects!

[@robertsarchitecture]

Yes, great idea!

[@dalehodges5362]

This is a life affirming thing for me ... much of my art "does" this (ish) :) Thanks for all !

[@willmac5642]

Thanks for posting and explaining his methods. Mind blowing tbh Trying to find more examples of Compression Release effect entrances. My father was a big FLW fan and used these on buildings for universities (Oxford/Cambridge)but unfortunately he's no longer here to explain

[@robertsarchitecture]

Yes, most of FLW's Usonian houses use 'compression and release' at the entrances. It is hard to see in plan because the ceiling height is what 'compresses'. Also adding to compression is the lack of light, then opening up to higher ceiling and lots of light.

[@willmac5642]

@@robertsarchitecture thanks very much, sounds similar to a horn loaded loudspeaker. Did John Lautner also try anything similar?

[@gregalee]

Great video! A piece of advice: Find out how to disable autofocus on your camera and manually focus on the paper. This will prevent the camera from focus hunting when your hand enters the frame. This was evident during two drawing sequences in the video and it really detracted from the wonderful overall presentation. Keep making videos!

[@robertsarchitecture]

Thanks! Yes, my autofocus on this video was bad. I was using a Fujifilm T-4 which always hunts for focus. I've since switched to a Sony A7IV which has great autofocus. Hopefully my video quality keeps improving.

[@gregalee]

@@robertsarchitecture Hmm, it sounds like there is a problem with your lens or something else. I have a Fuji X-Pro2 and a number of lenses. The autofocus is more dependent on the lens than the camera body. If you have an actual camera, the answer here is to turn off autofocus with a stationary subject like a piece of paper.

[@alex-ander-13]

Thank you very much for this guidance.

[@benschebella673]

While these principles are beautiful in floor plan view, how do they affect user experience? Is the building experienced on the personal level in a profound way? Are the spaces perceived in the same way from inside, in 3 dimensions?

[@robertsarchitecture]

If the floor plan is the 'score', then the lived experience of the space is the music.

[@marta-fu9dw]

Hi, I love the video. The narration was beautiful, was it red from a book or a expression of your own? Thank you!

[@robertsarchitecture]

Thanks so much! I wrote it all, except the quote by Louis Sullivan.

[@marta-fu9dw]

@@robertsarchitecture so good 💚

[@Theoriginalchriskurc]

I wish my arch studio teachers would have spent just one unit on this kind of stuff.

[@pharder1234]

wow this is great i had no idea about sullivan's influence on FLW in terms of the geometric stuff. One thing that struck me about how wright uses those fundamental concepts of nesting, extrension, penetration; is that it makes his designs look almost fractal like. This is another way i think FLW manages to bridge the gap of inorganic forms like squares with their 90 degree angles with the organic forms of nature that are winding and twisting, repeating and fractal like. On another note, you mentioned that FLW often plays with that pinwheel technique, rotating a geometric form around a center. I wonder if this was influenced at all by the design of one of his very first works, the romeo and juliet windmill that he made for his aunts' boarding school, the Hillside Home School. but maybe that's a strech tho

[@robertsarchitecture]

It is said that Wright was deeply influenced by Froebel gifts which were a child's toy blocks. These blocks could be arranged in geometric patterns including pinwheels. Although he played with them as a child, he was definitely more influenced by Sullivan.

[@pharder1234]

@@robertsarchitecture interesting, I had no idea

[@terezakoubova2932]

Hi, I loved the video! I was wondering, whats the name of the pen you are using in the vid?

[@robertsarchitecture]

Thanks! The pen is a Lamy Safari.

[@YaleBreaker]

Lovely video to watch even as a layman. May I ask the name of the track you used for the background music?

[@robertsarchitecture]

Thanks! I used Storyblocks for the background music. I think this one was "Floating Ethereal and Fast".

[@StonesAndSand]

FLW was definitely living on, and working from Moslow's top-most level.

[@geckauss]

you should disable autofocus from your camera for future videos

[@chassidywebdesign3672]

You talk about architectural ornament so much but I wanted to see you show how to do it.

[@HappyJuneShining]

I’m sorry, I wanna ask you, what pen did u use? I’m in love with that tool😅….thank you

[@robertsarchitecture]

Thanks! It is a Lamy Safari with an EF nib. I use waterproof ink to draw with so I don't want to use too expensive of a pen just in case it clogs the pen. www.amazon.com/Safari-Fountain-Charcoal-Ex-Fine-L17EF/dp/B0002T4032/ref=sr_1_1?crid=156NXMW1AARIT&keywords=lamy+safari+fountain+pen+extra+fine+nib&qid=1683007210&sprefix=lamy+safari+fou%2Caps%2C163&sr=8-1

[@aqc_og]

Hi i am not an architect. I am engineer by study, but i have been designing my whole life. The only downside is that i have not used any theoretical base and my designs lack that geometric depth. I was wondering. if the basic design techniques are explained further in any architectural book or reference. Any suggestions?

[@robertsarchitecture]

If you are looking for architectural design concepts I would suggest the book 'Architecture: Form, Space, and Order' by Frank Ching. This is a book all first year architecture students should have. Also check out my other videos: kzbin.info/www/bejne/enavp3yEhL92qrc and kzbin.info/www/bejne/mHy9faygjM-BZpo

[@George-lr3bd]

Great video. Learned a lot. I'll apply to my next concept what I learned. Thank you.

[@alexpoma4601]

Muy interesante;... hay este video en español Latino?

[@anirudhramaswamy786]

great video, could you share which pen you are using in this video ?

[@robertsarchitecture]

Thanks! I was using a Lamy Safari.

[@fffast-iz7rc]

you should lock the focus because it can get very annoying

[@robertsarchitecture]

Yes. I was using a Fujifilm T4 which has bad focus. I've since switched to a Sony so I can use automatic focus.

[@brentdobson5264]

....An overdue video for potential understanding ❤ .

[@libertyfilm4096]

Can you do design process on Tadao Ando ?

[@libertyfilm4096]

Great video full of design concepts 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@simoncattle1434]

Great video explanation. Thank you.

[@michaelzajac5284]

I've never seen this different drafting before. I learned my drafting.

[@dagabriel9416]

The book is not available which is sad.

[@averyjones2354]

whats the piano music playing in the background?

[@federicodeangeli8103]

Any chance of you scanning "a system of architectural ornament"? It seems like an extremely important book for any architect today (considering the way things are going) but it is virtually unfindable

[@robertsarchitecture]

I've been trying to find a complete version of this book. It was reprinted in 1964 from the 1924 original. I'm close to getting it. If I do, I'll scan it an post a PDF.

[@federicodeangeli8103]

@@robertsarchitecture thank you so much, you're doing a work that is much greater and important than what you usually find on youtube

[@rambosweat]

Interesting subject but jeez the rapid blurring is quite painful on the eyes. 😵‍💫

[@natedog4872]

One of my favorite architects 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🔥

[@giovanniferrara5341]

Wonderful work. Can you suggest some books on the exoteric meaning of this architecture and the ritualistic geometry you are mentioning in the video? I’m part of glri in italy and I’m very keen on researching on this topic. Thanks

[@robertsarchitecture]

Thanks! Sacred Geometry by Miranda Lundy, The Golden Section by Scott Olsen, and The Elements of Dynamic Symmetry by Jay Hambidge are three books I have. Not sure if there are better ones out there?

[@MJKDESIGNer]

Excellent video and very interesting, shocked he was drawing inspiration from the occult and hidden knowledge....

[@jonstivers]

Is architectural space different than outer space or inner space?

[@aaineesheikh]

Hello sir. I'm an architecture graduate and I want to work with you. Can you please let me know if there are any openings for someone with drafting, photo editing and model making skills? I'm a pretty decent writer as well. I love analyzing buildings and interiors! I'd love to work with your team! Hope this message reaches you!

[@robertsarchitecture]

Send me an email.

[@ClarMendoza-q7j]

anyone know what pen he is using?

[@robertsarchitecture]

It is a Lamy Safari with an Extra Fine nib.

[@VanGoWanderlust]

I could watch this for hours on end

[@robtennapel78]

Great work!

[@progettazione_case_moderne]

many thanks nice video ..

[@ondrejsvihnos2311]

Very good presentation, but please, turn off the autofocus

[@alexquargnali6810]

He would have gone CRAZY with the extrusion etc. on a 3D software

[@rafaelfiuza470]

Anywhere i can find the book?

[@robertsarchitecture]

The book I used as research for this video is " Frank Lloyd Wright: A Primer on Architectural Principles" by Robert McCarter. Good book. I recommend it. Lois Sullivan's book is called "A System of Architectural Ornament". Its a rare book, difficult to find.

[@Yetipfote]

this is medicine for my soul!

[@dynoko7476]

❤ The Engineering drawing

[@artezu6928]

Es el me jor video que he visto sobre mi arquitecto favorito FLW GRACIAS POR TANTA APORTACION TAN PROFESIONAL

[@librecadfree]

my best inspiration...

[@hoanganhpham9008]

can someone tell me theme music name ?

[@jacobvestergaard9097]

great video!!

[@arnoldlparc5352]

This video is gold, thanks!

[@invencibletheory]

Amazing video!

[@soyitiel]

@ 3:34 I thought my astigmatism was kicking in

[@nurislamaidaraliev5848]

Я не понял но очень интересно. Кто может коротко объясните что тут иллюстрируется.

[@TheWorldinMyMinds]

It is a good study, we need to integrate it into our working lives.🤔

[@AtomicPixels]

Sorry the music was so depressing in combo with textbook script style speech I couldn’t handle a full minute remaining focused or interested.

[@nopenope3416]

what pen(s) do you use?

[@robertsarchitecture]

For watercolors I typical use a Lamy Safari fountain pen (EF) with Platinum Carbon ink which is waterproof. I use this because they only cost about $35 u.s. and if the waterproof ink destroys the pen, that is OK.

[@spotify_ERROR404]

thank you

[@mylindacasbarro777]

My art is in Floyd Wright’s rendering!

[@OrendaDesignStudio]

Great information 😍.

[@doge0069]

I’ve stayed at the hotel in the price tower

[@filipemecenas]

Thanks

[@bitchmrauer]

Well done

[@williamalbert3543]

architecture is its own language

[@onkarkitekt]

2:10 What a beauty 😍

[@joshfrauenfelder324]

Frank Lloyd Wright drew squares, rectangles, triangles and circles.

[@nelitary3369]

Very nice video = )

[@arqsolar3465]

Grande mestre!

[@leosssssssssssssssssssb]

love it

[@Only_art_ok]

Very nice

[@islandersean2213]

Love it Robert

[@hectorluz1693]

Thanks for the vídeo

[@EdwardHopperNightHawks]

...awesomeness 🥸🥸

[@Only_art_ok]

I love this architect

[@muhammadyani8162]

it seems like spiritual speech.

[@rafeeqwarfield9690]

Oh bc it is

[@everythingisfake7555]

Is a layman supposed to be able to get anything from videos like these?

[@TheArchitect777]

🕎 🕎 🕎 📐 Magnificent!🎉

[@neyu2960]

nice

[@Lubnadraws]

The song is so sad

[@ooxx9117]

WOW!

[@deezynar]

I appreciate that you are making these videos with the idea to help novice designers understand Wright's methods. This video provides a good introduction to Wright's basic kit of geometric tools. I have read extensively about Wright for decades and I have concluded that the geometry that Wright employed definitely has value for architectural designers. But the 19th century philosophy he attached to it is worthless rubbish. The two are not related except, perhaps, in the minds of Sullivan, and Wright. And they got it from earlier authors who lived at a time when people were heavily interested in spiritual matters while they were rejecting Christianity. So, keep in mind that the philosophy was a crutch for people who walked away from their church upbringing but were still in need of some spiritual framework to hang their worldview on. The biggest problem with studying books on Wright is that all the authors regurgitate the philosophical sounding gibberish that Wright spewed. It may have had some meaning to Wright, but it doesn't translate into any usable information for anyone else. And thinking about humanity's command over nature doesn't help you when you are struggling to come up with a plan, elevations, and sections, that are functional and beautiful. I'm not even sure that it meant anything to Wright either as far as design is concerned. It's very possible that he realized that Sullivan's gibberish was a good screen to keep his actual methods hidden from his competitors. It also had the benefit of dazzling potential, soft headed, clients with mystical sounding claptrap. The other time-wasting hurdle in studying Wright that stuffs every book on his work is his personal history. It always takes up far too much space and offers far too little help to designers. His personal life had a bearing on shifting his job opportunities, and that impacted what he was able to implement in his designs; but overall, being familiar with his sordid life is a burden rather than an aid to other designers. Wright was almost certainly a narcissist, and possibly a sociopath to some degree. "The Fellowship" is an extremely well researched and footnoted book that goes quite in depth on Wright's selfish and morally questionable life. Anyone who doesn't feel dirty from reading that book has character problems of their own. Nobody should look to Wright for moral guidance. Geometry is a tool that Wright used extensively and skillfully, but like all other architects, it is only one tool out of dozens that need to be employed. If you want to understand Wright's work, the best place to start is with his particular use of geometry.

[@robertsarchitecture]

I agree mostly, but you have to understand history to know why Sullivan and Wright were so philosophical about their work. The Industrial Revolution was destroying arts and crafts, architecture, and the way of life of millions of people. Like the Arts and Crafts movement, Sullivan and Wright sought to affirm humanism and art in their work against mass production and the inhumanity of the machine. The humanism of the Enlightenment was being replaced with mass production and the inhumanity of factory life. They believed in an alternate "Modern" architecture, one based on humanism, freedom, and natural processes. Unfortunately, this philosophy was overwhelmed by history and 'Corporate Modernism' post-WWII made these ideas obsolete.

[@deezynar]

The philosophy I referred to in my original comment was not of Ruskin's origin. I was speaking of transcendentalism, or whatever interpretation of it that Wright bought into. Wright copied limited aspects from Arts & Crafts furniture and architecture, but Wright did not believe in the main idea of the movement, that machines and mass production are bad. Wright certainly didn't believe they were going to die out just because Ruskin and Morris screamed that hand craftsmanship was morally superior, and better for the common man. Wright supported mass production, and gave a public speech in 1901 at Hull House in which he clearly expressed that machines were good if used to make things that are well designed. He promoted his designs, of course, which was his habit. Wright, as you know, designed houses that were supposed to be mass produced. Thinking about his own work spread across the land must have thrilled the egomaniac more than anything. That dream needed machines to come true. As you can see, I laugh at Wright because of his arrogance and selfishness, but I respect his clear thinking that machines are valuable tools, and mass production is essential for making products that are affordable to normal people. His experience with the failed mass production of houses taught him that hand work was also not going away. Mass produced concrete blocks were going to continue to be laid by individual men on building sites. We need to have a few academics around who understand Wright's self-promoting clap trap, but current design practitioners don't need to get bogged down in the unimportant details of humanism, transcendentalism, or other ideas that are not directly related to design. The only high-level philosophical concept that designers need to grasp is that they have a legal obligation to serve their client as well as they can.

[@angiepato28]