 Fractal Geometry in the Late Work of Frank Lloyd Wright: The Palmer HouseLeonard K. Eaton
Chapter Chapter 68 in Architecture and Mathematics from Antiquity to the Future, 2015, pp 325-337 from Springer Abstract: Abstract That Nature was Frank Lloyd Wright’s deity is well known, but recent scholarship has also stressed the importance of Wright’s feeling for geometry. Anthony Alofsin has pointed out the impact of Wright’s contact with the geometric forms of the Vienna Secession. Referring to Wright’s use of the rectilinear grid, Narciso Menocal writes that it “…was contingent on his conception of the universe as a geometric entity that architecture mirrors”. Whether or not Wright was aware of such concepts as the Golden Mean and the Fibonacci series is a moot point. Wright used nature as the basis of his geometrical abstraction. His objective was to conventionalize the geometry which he found in Nature, and his method was to adopt the abstract simplification which he found so well expressed in the Japanese print. Therefore, it is not too shocking perhaps that in this quest his work should foreshadow the new mathematics of nature first put forth by Benoit Mandelbrot: fractal geometry. Keywords: Equilateral Triangle; Fractal Geometry; Concrete Slab; Sierpinski Gasket; Talus Slope (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-319-00143-2_21 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-00143-2_21 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Springer Books from Springer |
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