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> his designs are … often downright hostile to having any natural light indoors Are you sure about this? From Wikipedia [0]: > To unify the house to its site,
by bryan0 2y ago
> his designs are … often downright hostile to having any natural light indoors
Are you sure about this? From Wikipedia [0]:
> To unify the house to its site, Wright often used large expanses of glass to blur the boundary between the indoors and outdoors.Glass allowed for interaction and viewing of the outdoors while still protecting from the elements. In 1928, Wright wrote an essay on glass in which he compared it to the mirrors of nature: lakes, rivers and ponds.
Also check out the interior of the Johnson wax headquarters, the ceiling is basically a giant sky light [1]
[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lloyd_Wright https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lloyd_Wright
[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lloyd_Wright#/media/File%3AWork_area_at_the_Johnson_Wax_Building%2C_headquarters_of_the_S.C._Johnson_and_Son_Co.%2C_Racine%2C_Wisconsin_LCCN2011633764.jpg https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lloyd_Wright#/media/Fi...
- zerocrates 2y agoYeah he was... hugely into natural light. One factor that may be relevant here: many of his houses are designed to not use curtains or other window coverings; privacy is instead built into the house by having the front approach have few windows, or only the kind that are small and near the roofline, with the rear having many.