Uploaded January 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
In this video we take a look at the floor plans of Frank Lloyd Wright and breakdown what goes into his organic architecture. We begin with some of his early work like the Ward Willits house and compare it with a more standard 'Single Style House' of the period. Then, we see how these concepts and techniques are translated into later works like Robie House. Important aspects of Frank Lloyd Wrights Organic Architecture include diagonal movement, overlapped corner rooms, corner windows, and a design process that goes from the inside out. All this goes into thinking specifically about organic plans as a particular category of open concepts.
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In this video we take a look at the floor plans of Frank Lloyd Wright and breakdown what goes into his organic architecture. We begin with some of his early work like the Ward Willits house and compare it with a more standard 'Single Style House' of the period. Then, we see how these concepts and techniques are translated into later works like Robie House. Important aspects of Frank Lloyd Wrights Organic Architecture include diagonal movement, overlapped corner rooms, corner windows, and a design process that goes from the inside out. All this goes into thinking specifically about organic plans as a particular category of open concepts.
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University of Illinois at Chicago School of Architecture: https://arch.uic.edu/
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![The Most Endangered Building in Chicago [Thompson Center by Helmut Jahn]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/cxXHKNHKZ2s/mqdefault.jpg "The Most Endangered Building in Chicago [Thompson Center by Helmut Jahn]
In this video, we visit Chicagos most endangered building the Thompson Center by Helmut Jahn and discuss issues related to its preservation and impending demolition.
(Can you spot the awesome typo mid video?)
Perhaps no building in Chicago is closer to a date with the wrecking ball than the Thompson Center by the architect Helmut Jahn. While those responsible for initiating this threat cite years worth of deferred maintenance and high costs of operation as the primary reasons for their decision, these are not the real reasons for the building’s demise. It suffers from a much more lethal ailment — treating it like a normal building. In this video, Stewart explains why the Thompson Center is definitely not a normal building and offers alternative ways to evaluate it. What if we considered it to be a piece of urban infrastructure or public plaza instead? Relating the building to Rem Koolhaas’ theory of ‘Bigness’, this video builds the case that the Thompson Center should be valued for how it brings people together in space rather than its colors, or material palette, or any other normal ways of evaluating mere buildings.
3D Model Team from UIC School of Architecture: John Gritsonis, Ricardo Sandoval, Aaron Cortez, Andrew Sterniuk, Brandon Hogan, Eugenia Dittmar, Juan Reyes, Katherine Denemark, Lindsey Louisma, Masumi Thakkar, Eric Nunez, Julian Gonzalez
Explore the Space on your Device: https://api2.enscape3d.com/v1/view/bb6593b2-7fb1-41cd-82ef-89f663a4472d
Download Rhino 3D File: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B6sIzAemxjq1MdxnyURZd2SlifMsVp1T/view?usp=sharing
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