Frank Lloyd Wright- ISLS - Spring 2006 - Chabot College

Interdisciplinary Studies in Letters & Science

Chabot College

Spring 2006

Selected Readings from

In the Cause of Architecture

by Frank Lloyd Wright

Historical Essays for The Architectural Record, 1908-1952

Discussion Led by Scott Hildreth

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

- Ernest Dimnet, What We Live By, 1932

Class Date	Topic	READ PRIOR TO CLASS ON THIS DAY
Wednesday 5/10	Introduction to Frank Lloyd Wright Who he was What he did About the book	In The Cause of Architecture (1-12) Style, Therefore, will be the man. (13-22)
Thursday 5/11	Wright's Early Years Lecture notes for "In the Cause of Architecture" Essays 1-3	Part III: Steel (31-34) Part IV: Fabrication and Imagination (35-42)
Monday 5/15	Wright's Early Years Lecture notes for "In the Cause of Architecture" Essays 1-3	I: The logic of the Plan (43-48) II: What Style Means to the Architect (49-54 The Meaning of Materials (55-92)
Tuesday 5/16	The Marin Civic Center Field Trip & Tour Meet at 9:45 AM at the entrance to the Civic Center Building (underneath the main arch, which you will see as you pass through to the parking lots.)	Driving Directions from the East Bay Map of the Civic Center Area
Wednesday 5/17	Wright's Later Years Lecture notes for "In the Cause of Architecture" Essays 4 - 7	The Terms: Poetry, Poetic, Romantic, the Ideal (93-100) Organic Architecture (100-106)
Wednesday 5/17	Small Group In-Class Writing Assignment relating some of the FLW essays to the buildings we have seen including the Marin Civic Center.

Class links & resources, including quotes, Marin Civic Center Information, & Discussion Questions

Electronic Resources

Frank Lloyd Wright: A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick (1997) PBS. http://www.pbs.org/flw/

Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust Foundation (2006) http://www.wrightplus.org/index.html

The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation (2006) http://www.franklloydwright.org/index.cfm?section=home&action=home%20

Delmars, J. H. (2005) Wright on the Web: A Virtual Look at the Works of Frank Lloyd Wright http://www.delmars.com/wright/flwright.htm

Miller, C. (2000) Frank Lloyd Wright Building Guide http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/1469/flwbuild.html

Unity Temple Foundation (1997) Interior Tour of Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple http://oprf.com/unity/tour/index.html

Wright, Steven (2004) Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright. University of Maryland. http://www.wam.umd.edu/~stwright/frank-lloyd-wright/

Comprehensive Frank Lloyd Wright Weblist (Updated March 2006)

Last Updated: 3/31/06 - SH

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