FLW Ch 3, 4, 5, 6 Vocab (copy)

FLW Principle: Unity

Making all parts of the building work together

FLW Principle: Integration

Combining building with sight and nature

FLW Principles: Spatial Continuity

Spaces flow into each other

FLW Principles: Simplicity

Not overly detailed, shows control

FLW Principles: Truth to Materials

Organic architecture, locally sourced material, intrinsic qualities

FLW Principles: Human Scale

Height hate

FLW Principles: Organic

Harmony between inhabitants and natural world

Horizontality

Prairie homes, low roofs and banded windows

Verticality

Emphasis on height (high ceilings)

Wood Clapboard

Wood boards used for exterior siding, overlap one another and protect from Weather

Transcendentalism

Truth and meaning in nature, encourages individuality and simplicity

Compression/Release

Used to direct one through spaces: small spaces are meant to be moved through and large spaces are meant for one to stay in

Gable Roof

Triangle roof

Hip Roof

4 sides up into a point

Banding

Horizontal subdivision of a wall for support or decor

Transparency

Emphasizes the use of glass/open areas

Wright’s use of materials

Locally sourced, liked concrete?

Clerestory

Windows banding the top of a wall

Site & Site Integration

Combining building with sight and nature (specific to site/location)

Wasmuth Portfolio

Collection of real and unrealized plans, German

Fragmentation

Breaking design into various parts

Stereotomic

Uses masonry

Tectonic

Uses Wood/Steel

Marion Mahony

First woman licensed architect

Axis

Imaginary line that organizes a building

Joseph Lyman Sillsbee

First mentor and employer

Symmetry

Mirror on both sides

Interpenetrating volumes

Volumes that form/overlap

Louis Sullivan

Wright’s mentor in Chicago

Textile Blocks

Reinforced precast concrete

Cantilever

Support on only one side, projecting out of other

Form/Function

Sullivan idea that the form should be based off the function of the building

Hearth

Fireplace/Center of the house

Massing

How building a shape can arrange a collection of solid shapes

Grid

Repeated shapes/lines that organizes a design

Modular System

Repeated units or measurements to help with building design.

Prairie School

Oak Park staff/students

Open Floor Plan

Doesn’t use many interior walls

Roman Brick

Fired clay bricks

Arch

Design element commonly used by Sullivan, seen in Wright’s early works

Overhangs/Eaves

Roof that goes out further than the wall

Ribbon Windows

Connected windows in a row

Light Screens

Decorative windows/wall that allows light to pass through

Introverted Buildings

Building forming on what's within

Courtyard Plan

Building wraps around an outdoor space

Corner Window

Window in a corner

Plinth

Raised base of a pedestal

Parti

Simplified diagram capturing the basic conceptual idea or organizing principle of a design

Walter Burley Griffin

Landscape architect worked at oak park studio

Taylor Wooley

Photographer of taliesan, traveled to Europe with FLW

Arts and Crafts Movement

Artistic movement that relies on human trades/skills: counterculture to mass production

Port Cochere

Rooted entrance or gateway

Loggia

Roofed and open sided corridor often overlooking a courtyard

Pre-Columbian

The Americas before European contact