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‘MA’: composition and reflex in the work of Frank Lloyd Wright

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2008

John Sergeant
John Sergeant
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University of Cambridge, Department of Architecture1 Scroope Terrace, Cambridge CB2 1PX, United Kingdom
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Abstract

Wright's approach to design comprised a polarity of modes, ranging from axial symmetry, employed in public buildings, to free and spontaneous expression of use, route and place, in the private house. Together these showed a deep awareness of the Classical tradition, and personal study, unusual for his time, of oriental place-making. An idiosyncratic attitude to nature and existence lay behind this, often embodied in a ‘high place’.

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arq: Architectural Research Quarterly , Volume 1 , Issue 4 , Summer 1996 , pp. 38 - 49
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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